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GCMs (General Circulation Models or Global Climate Models) are computer programs based on fundamental physical, chemical, and biological equations that simulate Earth's climate in the past for verification and then predict it in the future.
Over nineteen GCMs are in general use.
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Module: Climate Change and Regional Impacts -...
SUMMARY Length - 25 minutes; Publish Date: 2012-08-14 This short module is an overview of the different effects climate change produces in different regions of the... More »
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Podcast: TED Talks series - Rob Hopkins:...
SUMMARY 16:40 minutes TED Talks series, FILMED JUL 2009 • POSTED NOV 2009& More »
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Simulation: Climate Change: A simulation with...
Video length: 18:01 min and 3:45 min. Selected for the CLEAN Collection. The activity description was developed by CLEAN reviewers. This webpage contains two videos that show... More »
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Video: TED Talks series - Steven Cowley:...
SUMMARY 9:55 minutes TED Talks series, FILMED JUL 2009 • POSTED DEC 2009 • More »
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Podcast: TED Talks series - T. Boone Pickens:...
SUMMARY 19:43 minutes TED Talks series, FILMED MAR 2012 • POSTED MAR 2012& More »
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IPCC Emission Scenarios
Climate forecasting requires insight into the predictability of forcing factors that influence Earth’s climate. External forcing factors run the gamut in terms of... More »
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Video: TED Talks series - Rob Dunbar:...
SUMMARY 18:15 minutes TED Talks series, FILMED APR 2010 • POSTED SEP 2010 • Mission Blue Voyage More »
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Simulation: Five-Year Average Global...
SUMMARY This simulation has been selected for inclusion in the CLEAN Collection based on the following review comments: This NASA animation of the Five-Year Average... More »
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Simulation: Milankovitch Cycles - CLEAN
SUMMARY 30 minutes required. Summary by CLEAN Reviewers: These animations depict the three major Milankovitch Cycles that impact global climate, visually demonstrating... More »
Simulation - C-Learn: the International Climate Change...
Last Updated on 2013-05-13 at 20:08
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Selected for the CLEAN Collection. Activity description by CLEAN reviewers.
C-Learn is a simplified version of the C-ROADS simulator. Its primary purpose is to... More »
Case: Impacts of Global Climate Change on Tribes in...
Last Updated on 2013-04-11 at 17:32
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This is a clicker case is the second of a two-part series that is an introduction to potential impacts of Global Climate change on the of the Tribal Lands in... More »
Global warming is epic, long-term study says
Last Updated on 2013-04-08 at 20:52
(CNN) -- Global warming has propelled Earth's climate from one of its coldest decades since the last ice age to one of its hottest -- in just one century.
A heat spike... More »
Model Climate Sensitivity
Last Updated on 2013-04-04 at 15:05
The response of climate to a perturbation such as a change in carbon dioxide concentration, or in the flux of energy from the sun, can be divided into two... More »
Data Set: Earth System Grid Project - LLNL
Last Updated on 2013-04-01 at 19:14
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The Earth System Grid (ESG) project makes climate simulation data easily accessible to the climate modeling community.
The envisioned topology of the ESG... More »
Simulation: Climate Wizard
Last Updated on 2013-03-14 at 17:50
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This is an interactive webtool that allows the user to choose a state or country and both assess how climate has changed over time and project what future changes... More »
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