0.Explain how it is possible for a great amount of glacial ice to cover the land

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0.Explain how it is possible for a great amount of glacial ice to cover the land even though the climate is interglacial.

1.Why are supercomputers necessary for many GCM simulations of future climate?

3. Why is it that with each successive generation of computer models, their skill improves?

5. Explain the concept of ‘signal to noise’ and how it is applied to studies involving trends in climate patterns.

7. Why is there such inertia in the climate system for global average temperatures to likely rise beyond the 21st century?

Explanation / Answer

Glaciers constitute much of the mother Earth which makes up the cryosphere, it is the the part of the Earth which remains below the freezing point of water. Most of the glacial ice today is found in the polar regions which is above the Arctic and Antarctic Circles.

Great amount of glacial ice to cover the land even though the climate is interglacial because of the following reasons:-

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