[ECOLOG-L] simple climate change models?

[Charles Andrew Cole]

Hi,

I'm planning to co-teach a class in "Designing for global climate 
change" in the Department of Landscape Architecture here and we would 
like the students to be able to dig into one or more climate models 
to see how design decisions impact some of the variables. These are 
undergraduate landscape architect majors, many without a strong 
science background. And though I'm the scientist in the group, I 
don't have a background in climate change (other than contributing to 
it, I guess).

So, my question is - are there any useful but relatively simple 
climate change models that we can use to play "what if?" sorts of 
things? I'd very much like to be able to have a model where we can 
actually input some change resulting from a design decision and see 
something change in the model (good or bad).

Thanks in advance for any help.

Andy Cole




Charles Andrew Cole, Ph.D.
Department of Landscape Architecture
Penn State University
329 Stuckeman Family Building
University Park, PA 16802
814-865-5735
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