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The roadmap of climate models

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The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics recognized the importance of climate modeling and its role in explaining anthropogenic effects on climate change and global warming. To further understand our Earth’s climates, computational models pose new challenges to account for various complexities.

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Fig. 1: History of global temperature change and causes of recent warming.

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