9  Resources

9.1 CarbonBrief Explainers

CarbonBrief provides excellent articles explaining important concepts in climate change modeling. We recommend starting with the following articles:

• How do climate models work?
• Explainer: How ‘Shared Socioeconomic Pathways’ explore future climate change
• CMIP6: the next generation of climate models explained
• Explainer: The high-emissions ‘RCP8.5’ global warming scenario
• Timeline: The History of Climate Modelling

9.2 Exploring the GCM ensemble

To better understand the global climate model ensemble featured in climr, try our cmip6-BC and cmip6-NA apps.

9.3 The climr R package

If you are an R programmer, we recommend you use our R package climr, which provides programmatic access to the functionality of this app, and much more.