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Global and regional climate models are formalized descriptions of the climate system, which differ by the resolution (generalization) or modeling step. The result of the simulation is global, regional (or local) distributions of climate data, with a spatial resolution of 500–100 or 10–50 km, respectively. Accordingly, these models refer to the impact of the processes of different scales and origins in the atmosphere, ocean, and land surface.
Introduction
The rapid development of computational methods in recent decades has led to the transformation of applied mathematics in geosciences into a successful tool for solving many important tasks (Sagar et al. 2018): from natural resources exploration to meteorology.
Among other problems connected with human well-being and security, there are several complex tasks, where the application of mathematical geosciences is required, such as support of sustainable development, climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction or reducing...
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Kostyuchenko, Y., Artemenko, I., Abioui, M., Benssaou, M. (2022). Global and Regional Climatic Modeling. In: Daya Sagar, B.S., Cheng, Q., McKinley, J., Agterberg, F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Mathematical Geosciences. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26050-7_144-1
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