The models aren’t keeping up

Modelling tools are key to responding to different weather impacts and climatic events, but only if they keep up with change themselves.

Li and colleagues (2024) looked at drought management tools in the US. What they found is that the tools aren’t keeping up to climate change.  With extreme droughts becoming more and more common the patterns that the tools are expecting are becoming out of date.

It’s kind of funny because I feel like my internal models are also out of date with climate change. But unlike my models, the programs used can be updated by changing their programming. So then the question is, on what term should we update these tools? How do we know when they need updating and on what term?