Climate Prediction GUI ☁️ 🌤️ 🌍 💨 🌞

Climate prediction GUI is a package that generates a simple model of vertical energy transfer and temperatures in the Earth system. This model assumes a two-layered atmosphere, to which both layers absorb and reradiate a proportion of the outgoing infrared radiation. The atmosphere is assumed to be transparent to incoming shortwave radiation assuming an albedo $\alpha$. $\alpha$ in turn is determined by the cloudcover, assuming that the planet is either covered by marine stratocumulus ( $\alpha_{\mathrm{cloud}}=0.75$ ) or open ocean ( $\alpha_{\mathrm{ocean}}=0.06$ )

The package solves for the temperature of the surface and the two layers in the atmosphere. Users can adjust the values through the GUI, and the temperature profile will be automatically updated to reflect the results from the changed input.

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Installation

Install the application by downloading the files below in this folder based on your operating system:

• Mac OS X: climateprediction.app
• Windows: climateprediction.exe
• Linux: climateprediction

Authors and acknowledgment

The authors are Kallista Angeloff, Shirin Ermis, Justin Leung, Adrian Mag, Spencer Pevsner and Sam Scivier.

License

This project uses the MIT license. See LICENSE for more information.