Why did global climate models start with the atmosphere

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Assignment:

a) Why did global climate models start with the atmosphere? (There are several good answers to this.)

b) Why is ocean carbon important to these models?

c) Constructing a model to simulate a highly complex system like Earth's climate is a long, stepwise process. This figure shows that scientists have been working on it for 50 years. Consider a point in the process before the model is "complete" and "perfect". How would you decide whether the model is good enough to be useful?

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