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Questioning the Effectiveness of U.S. Climate Modeling
Pages 9-12

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... In response, the research community has been working to provide societally beneficial information (e.g., NRC, l999d) , which has led to dramatic increases in requests for climate information products, particularly those that can be used to understand the impacts of climate changes and evaluate strategies for dealing with them.
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... Finally, it concluded that "to facilitate future climate assessments, climate treaty negotiations, and our understanding and predictions of climate, it is appropriate to develop now a national climate modeling strategy that includes the provision of adequate computational and human resources and is integrated across agencies." This present study focuses on the challenges posed in the 1998 report (NRC, 1998a) as specified in the statement of task given to the panel (Box 1-1~.
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... the need for widely available standard software tools to diagnose and compare climate model output; 8. the need for a strong interaction between observations of the climate system, research into fundamental climate processes, and integrative climate modeling.
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... The prediction products would then provide information and support decisions about agriculture, energy, health, transportation, food aid, disaster response, and other climatically influenced activities. This desire for information products and climate change assessments has been a primary motivator for increasing the accuracy of climate model outputs, particularly those modeling the climatic response to anthropogenically produced, radiatively active constituents.
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