• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

RealClimate

Climate science from climate scientists...

  • Start here
  • Model-Observation Comparisons
  • Miscellaneous Climate Graphics
  • Surface temperature graphics
You are here: Home / Extras / Glossary / Energy Balance Model (“EBM”)

Energy Balance Model (“EBM”)

28 Nov 2004 by group

Simple climate model consisting of a uniform ocean and atmosphere that respond thermodynamically, but not dynamically, to changes in radiative forcing.

Filed Under: Glossary

Primary Sidebar

Search

Search for:

Email Notification

get new posts sent to you automatically (free)
Loading

Recent Posts

  • Unforced Variations: Dec 2025
  • Who should pay?
  • Site updates etc.
  • Raising Climate Literacy
  • Unforced variations: Nov 2025
  • High-resolution ‘fingerprint’ images reveal a weakening Atlantic Ocean circulation (AMOC)

Our Books

Book covers
This list of books since 2005 (in reverse chronological order) that we have been involved in, accompanied by the publisher’s official description, and some comments of independent reviewers of the work.
All Books >>

Recent Comments

  • patrick o twentyseven on Who should pay?
  • patrick o twentyseven on Who should pay?
  • Chuck on Unforced Variations: Dec 2025
  • Jim on Raising Climate Literacy
  • Piotr on Unforced Variations: Dec 2025
  • Barry E Finch on Unforced Variations: Dec 2025
  • Paul Pukite (@whut) on Unforced Variations: Dec 2025
  • ozajh on Unforced Variations: Dec 2025
  • Jim on Unforced Variations: Dec 2025
  • patrick o twentyseven on Who should pay?
  • patrick o twentyseven on Unforced variations: Nov 2025
  • Jim on Unforced Variations: Dec 2025
  • Jim on Unforced Variations: Dec 2025
  • Piotr on Unforced Variations: Dec 2025
  • Paul Pukite (@whut) on Unforced Variations: Dec 2025
  • Barton Paul Levenson on Raising Climate Literacy
  • Pete Best on Unforced Variations: Dec 2025
  • David on Unforced Variations: Dec 2025
  • Pete best on Unforced Variations: Dec 2025
  • Ron R. on Who should pay?
  • Dean Myerson on Unforced Variations: Dec 2025
  • Data on Unforced Variations: Dec 2025
  • Data on Unforced Variations: Dec 2025
  • Ray Ladbury on Raising Climate Literacy
  • MA Rodger on Unforced Variations: Dec 2025
  • MA Rodger on Unforced Variations: Dec 2025
  • Nigelj on Unforced Variations: Dec 2025
  • zebra on Who should pay?
  • Barry E Finch on Unforced Variations: Dec 2025
  • Barry E Finch on Unforced Variations: Dec 2025

Footer

ABOUT

  • About
  • Translations
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact Page
  • Login

DATA AND GRAPHICS

  • Data Sources
  • Model-Observation Comparisons
  • Surface temperature graphics
  • Miscellaneous Climate Graphics

INDEX

  • Acronym index
  • Index
  • Archives
  • Contributors

Realclimate Stats

1,389 posts

15 pages

248,990 comments

Copyright © 2025 · RealClimate is a commentary site on climate science by working climate scientists for the interested public and journalists.