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 of a temperature 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.
Cite
@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