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Videos and Podcasts Produced by GFDL's CCVP Group Members

On this page, we display some examples of narrated videos and audio-only products created right here at NOAA GFDL. We invite you to download, view or listen to these educational materials from your computer.

Our new web site went "live" on 31 March 2009, so please check back as we add more items to this web page.

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Climate Modeling 101 Video Series

Narrated videos covering some of the basics about the big and complex computer programs we call global climate models.

Climate Modeling 101: Grid Resolution -
how detailed is the climate model picture?

State-of-the-art global climate models divide our planet's atmosphere, ocean, land surface, and sea ice into millions of boxes. Higher spatial resolution - in other words, having smaller and more numerous boxes - allows a model to produce a more detailed simulation of the climate. But higher resolution comes at a price. Having more boxes mean more calculations need to be done, which means more computer power is needed.
In this video, we discuss the costs and benefits of higher spatial resolution, illustrating some key points with colorful animations from GFDL's newest high resolution global climate model.

Click on the QuickTime logo to the left to access the .mov video.
(60 MB, 9:24 length, 720x480 video dimensions, closed captions)
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NOAA GFDL Climate Research Conversations

Podcast-style interviews with members of GFDL's Climate Change, Variability & Prediction Group on topics related to their recently published research.

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Abrupt Climate Change Science: A conversation with Thomas Delworth.

NOAA GFDL climate researcher Tom Delworth talks about the science of Abrupt Climate Change and discusses a US Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) report on the topic that he helped author.

You may listen to this conversation either by using the controls directly above, or by selecting the mp3 audio icon to the right to download the 12MB mp3 file.

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