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Videos and Podcasts Produced by GFDL's CCVP Group Members

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[Video icon]Climate Modeling 101 Video Series

[Video icon]Climate Research Highlights Series

[Video icon]Modeling Dynamic Surface Ocean Currents


[video icon button]  Climate Modeling 101 Video Series


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


[GFDL Climate Modeling 101: Grid Resolution title screen image]

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.

[QuickTime logo icon]Click on the QuickTime logo to the left to access the .mov video.
(60 MB, 9:24 length, 720x480 video dimensions, closed captions)
Transcript


  • Note: If the closed caption .mov video does not work properly for you, please try this non-captioned version.

[GFDL Climate Modeling 101: Global Dynamic CLimate Models part 1 title screen image]

part 2 is currently
under development

Climate Modeling 101: Global Dynamical Climate Models -
what they are & what they are not (part 1)

In this video, we discuss, in general terms, how the core of global dynamical climate models are based on equations that describe fundamental physical laws (things like F=ma) and other physical, chemical, and biological processes important to climate. And we take a look at how a climate model marches forward in time, performing calculations representing many processes grid point by grid point - calculations that together simulate the time evolution of the global climate.

[QuickTime logo icon] Click on the QuickTime logo to the left to access the .mov video.
(54 MB, 9:43 length, 720x480 video dimensions, closed captions)
Transcript [coming soon]


  • Note: If the closed caption .mov video does not work properly for you, please try this non-captioned version.
Apple QuickTime or other player capable of playing an "MOV" file required. QuickTime for Windows or Apple OS may be downloaded free from: http://www.apple.com/quicktime [closed caption icon]When using a QuickTime player to view our videos that contain a closed caption channel, one can toggle the captions on and off by clicking on the "cc" box located in the lower left corner of the video.

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[video icon button]  Climate Research Highlights Series


Narrated scientific animations showing the results of climate model experiments conducted at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.

For more information on these topics, including two page summaries and additional graphics, see our NOAA GFDL Climate Research Highlights web page.

[Patterns of Greenhouse Warming video title]

Patterns of Greenhouse Warming Take-Home Points:

  • The increase of surface air temperatures in response to increasing greenhouse gas levels will not be geographically uniform.
  • Computer models indicate that 21st Century warming will occur more rapidly over continents than over oceans.
  • The largest warming is expected to occur during the winter months in northern North America and northcentral Asia.
[QuickTime logo icon]2:09 length. Four QuickTime versions are available:
1280 x 720 with closed captions (35 Mb)
1280 x 720 without captions (34 Mb)
640 x 360 with closed captions (12 Mb)
640 x 360 without captions (12 Mb)

[Shrinking Arctic Ice video title]

The Shrinking Arctic Ice Cap Take-Home Points:

  • Arctic sea ice is projected to decline dramatically over the 21st century, with little late summer sea ice remaining by the year 2100.
  • The simulated 21st century Arctic sea ice decline is not smooth, but contains periods of large and small changes.
  • The Arctic region's surface air temperature is projected to warm at a rate about twice as fast as the global average.
[QuickTime logo icon]2:24 length. Four QuickTime versions are available:
1280 x 720 with closed captions (7 Mb)
1280 x 720 without captions (7 Mb)
640 x 360 with closed captions (3 Mb)
640 x 360 without captions (3 Mb)

[Wet Get Wetter video title]

Will The Wet Get Wetter And The Dry Drier Take-Home Points:

  • In response to increasing greenhouse gas levels, climate models project an increase in the amount of water evaporating and precipitating over the Earth — a strengthening of the global
    hydrologic cycle.
  • Precipitation is projected to increase in the near-equatorial regions, which tend to be wet in the present climate.
  • In subtropical land areas — places that are already relatively dry — precipitation is projected to decrease during the 21st century.
  • Mid-latitude storm track are projected to move poleward along with the poleward edge of the subtropical dry zones.
[QuickTime logo icon]4:21 length. Four QuickTime versions are available:
1280 x 720 with closed captions (73 Mb)
1280 x 720 without captions (73 Mb)
640 x 360 with closed captions (22 Mb)
640 x 360 without captions (22 Mb)

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[video icon button]  Modeling Dynamic Surface Ocean Currents


Here we present a video tour of some major ocean currents as revealed by sea surface temperatures simulated in CM2.4 - one of GFDL's high resolution global climate models.


[Dynamic Ocean Currents]

Modeling Dynamic Surface Ocean Currents:
from the GFDL CM2.4 climate model

A total of eight versions of the video are available. There are versions in two different sizes, with and without closed captions, and with and without annotations (arrows and labels that help identify the features discussed by the narrator).


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[Audio Icon button] 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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Tropical Storm Duration Research: A conversation with Tom Knutson & Gabe Vecchi.

NOAA GFDL climate researchers Tom Knutson and Gabriel Vecchi discuss the very active scientific research field that investigates trends and variations in tropical storms and hurricanes.

[mp3 audio icon] 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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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.

[mp3 audio icon] 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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