Climate models use quantitative methods to simulate the interactions of the atmosphere, oceans, land surface, and ice. They are used for a variety of purposes from study of the dynamics of the weather and climate system to projections of future climate.
Scientific notation is a way of writing numbers that are too big or too small to be conveniently written in decimal form. In normalized scientific notation all numbers are written in the form a x 10^b (a times ten raised to the power of b) where a is a nonzero single-digit integer and b is an integer.he second number is called the base and in scientific notation must always be 10. In the number 1.23 x 108 the number 8 is the exponent or power of ten. How to Write a Number in Scientific Notation For large numbers : 1) Put the decimal after the first digit and drop the zeroes.
Also found in: Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Related to decimal notation: scientific notation. A representation of a fraction or other real number using the base ten and consisting of any of the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and a decimal point.