Warming or cooling from a random walk process in the temperature
Abstract
A simple 3-parameter random walk model for monthly fluctuations $\triangle T$ of a temperature $T$ 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.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- February 2020
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.2002.00262
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2002.00262
- Bibcode:
- 2020arXiv200200262B
- Keywords:
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- Physics - Computational Physics;
- Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics;
- Physics - Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 8 figures