Fill in the Blanks Modeling the Climate VideoOnline version Modeling the Climate Video by Wally Mason 1 farmland 35000 code grid human future water simulate mountain ocean ocean cities solar land computer ocean wind physics cells forests mountains supercomputers energy air precipitation Modeling the Climate 1 . Climate models help us past climate and predict climate . 2 . Modelers divide earth's surface into boxes or . 3 . It takes grid cells to cover the surface of the earth . 4 . Each grid cell has information about : - whether it is covered in or and the proportion - what is on the land , including , , , - the characteristics of the 5 . Within each grid cell models simulate the movement and changes in , , and . 6 . These processes are based on the laws of 7 . A climate model is really the sum total of a bunch of . 8 . Processes in one part of the world affect things in another part of world , like moving from one grid , into another , rising over a , and leading to in the third grid cell . ( 1 : 59 ) 9 . Models also incorporate processes happening in the , related to radiation , glaciers , and activities . ( 2 : 40 ) 10 . Because of the complexity of models are needed to run climate simulations .