Here is a broad range of simple (ish) climate models suitable for relatively advanced students:
- Excel climate model and sample work sheet.
- Interactive simulations from PhET, University of Colarado
- A simple dice based model
- Manchester University’s Build Your Own Earth
- Reading University’s scratch based energy balance model.
- The MAGICC climate carbon cycle model
- Walker Institute Simple Climate Model
- Other simple climate models can be found on the climateprediction.net website.
- Tutorial on Climate Models for teachers.
- Modelling climate change booklet full of experiments for school labs and computers
- The EN-ROADS climate solutions simulator published by climateinteractive.org
- The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s Mackay Carbon Calculator or My 2050.
- Financial Times net zero game
- Lewis Fry Richardson’s Forecast Factory – for Real, A Charlton-Perez and H Dacre, February 2011.