State the three major types of institutions where climate models are developed, implemented and used?

      

State the three major types of institutions where climate models are developed, implemented and used?

  

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Francis
1. National meteorological services. Most national weather services have a climatology section.
2. Universities. Relevant departments include atmospheric sciences, meteorology, climatology, and geography.
3. National and international research laboratories. Examples include the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR, in Boulder, Colorado, USA), the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL, in Princeton, New Jersey, USA), the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research (in Exeter, UK), the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany, or the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), France, to name but a few.
francis1897 answered the question on January 11, 2023 at 11:28


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