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Climate modelling strategies are demonstrated by toy models of the greenhouse planet, the atmosphere, and the ocean. A minimum energy balance model of the greenhouse provides the setting for a review on the construction and analysis of climate systems, which are simple and noisy. Two prominent climate compartments follow; these are the mid-latitude atmosphere and the wind-driven ocean, which are also subjected to stochastic forcing. The atmosphere’s dynamics is derived analytically for a periodic channel; the (linearised) quasi-geostrophic, baroclinic flow shows a response on stochastic forcing which may serve as a parameterisation of the eddies. A wind driven ocean circulation is analysed numerically in a high resolution square basin employing the (nonlinear) shallow water system. Imposing spatially inhomogeneous random wind stress forcing generates a response with regime transitions which do not exist otherwise. From a more general perspective, a modular stochastic climate system emerges in the outlook.
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Fraedrich, K. (2001). Simple climate models. In: Imkeller, P., von Storch, JS. (eds) Stochastic Climate Models. Progress in Probability, vol 49. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8287-3_2
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