Week 9: Climate Models and Emissions Scenarios

This week, we’ll close out our data exploration with a tour of climate models and their use in generating future projections through emissions scenarios.


Topics We Will Cover:

  • Climate modeling
  • The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
  • The Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP)
  • Emissions scenarios
  • Climate model large ensembles

Lecture Slides (11/22)


Other Useful Resources

KNMI Climate Explorer

NCAR GIS Climate Inspector

NOAA Climate Change Web Portal

Cal-Adapt

CMIP6 Amazon Web Services Catalog

Pangeo project: CMIP in Python