yes, small changes to the initial conditions can significantly effect the result - that's why the mainstream consensus has become that massive parallel simulations like this, with a large number of slightly different starting conditions and slightly adjusted model parameters are the only way to get statistically significant results out of current climate models.
Running such types of experiments has been shown to increase the skill of climate forecasts quite usefully
basically, yes. It's part of a wide collaboration between various UK research institutions and an awful lot of planning has gone into designing the model and the simulation to be run - it's been in the pipeline for at least 5 years now, with some very good people from the UK climate research communtity on it.
As far as I know the results will be written up and submitted to the same form of peer-review and open publication as any main stream science result.
It flows the same way as it did just off the equator: coriolis effects on which way the water swirls down the plug hole are so small you'd need specialised equipment to see them.
Which way the water goes has an awful lot more to do with what the water was doing before you pulled the plug, and how you pulled it, not which side of the equator you're on.
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yes, small changes to the initial conditions can significantly effect the result - that's why the mainstream consensus has become that massive parallel simulations like this, with a large number of slightly different starting conditions and slightly adjusted model parameters are the only way to get statistically significant results out of current climate models.
Running such types of experiments has been shown to increase the skill of climate forecasts quite usefully
basically, yes. It's part of a wide collaboration between various UK research institutions and an awful lot of planning has gone into designing the model and the simulation to be run - it's been in the pipeline for at least 5 years now, with some very good people from the UK climate research communtity on it.
As far as I know the results will be written up and submitted to the same form of peer-review and open publication as any main stream science result.
It flows the same way as it did just off the equator: coriolis effects on which way the water swirls down the plug hole are so small you'd need specialised equipment to see them.
Which way the water goes has an awful lot more to do with what the water was doing before you pulled the plug, and how you pulled it, not which side of the equator you're on.