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Warming or cooling from a random walk process in the temperature

Computational Physics 2020-02-28 v1 Statistical Mechanics Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics

Abstract

A simple 3-parameter random walk model for monthly fluctuations T\triangle T of a temperature TT is introduced. Applied to a time range of 170 years, temperature fluctuations of the model produce for about 14\% of the runs warming that exceeds the observed global warming of the earth surface temperature from 1850 to 2019. On the other hand, there is a 50\% likelihood for runs of our model resulting in cooling. If a similar random walk process can be used as an effective model for fluctuations of the global earth surface temperature, effects due to internal and external forcing could be considerably over- or underestimated.

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@article{arxiv.2002.00262,
  title  = {Warming or cooling from a random walk process in the temperature},
  author = {Bernd Albert Berg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.00262},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

4 pages, 8 figures

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