Plurality of models, optimization and mechanisms in climate studies. The role of feedback in the new IPCC report. October 2014.
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In this paper I relate the feedback in climate models to the search for a class of optimal models (called here “optimality”). The final aim of this paper is to appraise the prospects of optimizing climate models, eliminate unconceived models, reduce their uncertainty and, ultimately, produce a more explanatory and a more realistic mechanism of the Earth’s climate. When compared with the multiplicity of numerical models, a mechanism is backed by the virtue of explanation and hence higher chance to be more realistic. I discuss these topics in the light of the most recent result of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
@unpublished{PluralityModelsOptimization2014a,
	title = {Plurality of models, optimization and mechanisms in climate studies. {The} role of feedback in the new {IPCC} report},
	copyright = {All rights reserved},
	abstract = {In this paper I relate the feedback in climate models to the search for a class of optimal models (called here “optimality”). The final aim of this paper is to appraise the prospects of optimizing climate models, eliminate unconceived models, reduce their uncertainty and, ultimately, produce a more explanatory and a more realistic mechanism of the Earth’s climate. When compared with the multiplicity of numerical models, a mechanism is backed by the virtue of explanation and hence higher chance to be more realistic. I discuss these topics in the light of the most recent result of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).},
	month = oct,
	year = {2014},
	keywords = {Climate models, Models, Semantic view of theories},
}

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