and we are confident that the model has captured the essential features of the observed cloud and the accompanying atmospheric circulation. The scale of the observed and simulated clouds are ...

"But we find circulation is just as important. It's not one process or the other, but both." The findings are based on a detailed computer model that includes atmospheric chemical effects ...

the ocean circulation. Instead, it treated the entire ocean as a two-dimensional slab. The new study corrects for that by using a coupled ocean-atmosphere climate model, the Community Climate ...

The simulated data were generated by a collection of 20 climate models called the Coupled Model Intercomparison ... dragging other aspects of atmospheric circulation with them, such as precipitation.