By Xin Kai Lee and Raffaele Ferrari Part 11 of our tour of the CliMA software stack. The series began with why we built a new Earth system model; last week covered how the atmosphere exchanges heat, water, and momentum with the surface. The ocean shapes Earth’s climate and weather. It is well known that the ocean absorbs about a quarter of our carbon dioxide emissions and most of the excess heat from global warming; other effects are less familiar. The climate of England and Portugal, for example, is much milder than that of the US coast at the same…
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