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Here is an excellent description of climate models and how they work, for those of you who get asked this or just have wondered yourself. It was published in 2018 in Carbon Brief and provides a detailed look at how climate models work, how accurate they are, and what shortcomings they have. You can read it at https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-how-do-climate-models-work.

Source: NOAA

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