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Photo of Snow in Barcelona, Spain
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Conceptual Model of Earth System Processes Operating on Timescales of Decades to Centuries
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Conceptual Model of Earth System Processes Operating on Timescales of Decades to Centuries
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![Climate Skill Score for Each Version of CCM and CAM, Based on NMSE [normalized mean square error, right] and SVR [scaled variance ratio, left] for the 200-mb Height Field](media/graphics/ccm_skill.jpg)
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Climate Skill Score for Each Version of CCM and CAM, Based on NMSE [normalized mean square error, right] and SVR [scaled variance ratio, left] for the 200-mb Height Field
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David Williamson / NCAR
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Graph showing growth by condensation growth and collision-coalescence growth plus Animation of collision-coalescence
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CCSM3 Simulation of Water Vapor (white) and Precipitation (orange) for April
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Global Mean Precipitation and Precipitation Bias in 1-degree and 2-degree CCSM4 Simulations
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Neale et al. 2011
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Difference between the SST in observations and (top) 2° run and (bottom) 0.5° run of CCSM4 for 1990-1999
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Global Energy Flows (W/m2)
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climate_energy_flows.mp4
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Portraits of Sir Issac Newton, Rudolf Clausius, Arthur Schuster, Lewis Richardson, Vilhelm Bjerknes, John von Neumann
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Loop of schematic images showing the Evolution of Climate Models
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Schematic diagram showing processes simulated in a climate model
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Interactive graphic showing relationship between global radiative balance and cloud cover
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cloud_tuning.mp4
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Evolution of a model variable and forecast error during model integration
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Schamatic animation illustrating the climate model coupler
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Time series (1981-2006) of Anomaly Correlation of ECMWF 500 hPa Height Forecasts
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Simulated Infrared Image from 5-km Goddard Earth Observing System Model, Version 5 (GEOS-5) 90-hr Forecast valid 6 Feb 2010
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Image for question
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Precipitation Bias for GFS 96-120 hr Forecasts, June-August 2010, Relative to CAM-OPI Precipitation from Rain Gauge Observations and Satellite Estimates
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Global historical cropland area (% of grid cell)
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Pongratz et al. 2008
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Composite IR Satellite Image Loop 00 UTC 17 Mar 2012 to 12 UTC 20 Mar 2012
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The Tropics defined by upward motion, low pressure, surface winds, and net surface heating
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GOES Infrared Image 6 Feb 2010
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Image for question
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Gridded globe with zoomed in section
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Meridional Atmosphere and Ocean Heat Transports
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Photo of Antarctic Ice Core with Prominent Ash Layer
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Photo of ice core section with bubbles
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Processes Simulated by the Community Ice Sheet Model
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Schamatic animation illustrating the difference between initial condition problem (ensemble drift and spread) and boundary condition problem (seasonality)
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Processes Simulated by the Community Land Model 4.0
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Lawrence et al. 2011
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Satellite imagery of the great flood of the Mississippi River, 1993 in the area around St. Louis, MO comparing August 1991 and 1993.
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NASA Earth Observatory
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North Atlantic Oscillation
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J. Hurrell / NCAR
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Positive and negative phases of the wintertime North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO).
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Average Precipitation Rate (mm/day) for North America 1996-2005 from Willmott-Matsuura Climatology and 0.25-degree Resolution CCSM4
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Hannay et al. 2012
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Forecast Error of Temperature and Specific Humidity Showing Rapid Drift Toward Model Climatology
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Hannay et al. 2007
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ISCCP Mean Annual Frequency of Cloud Occurrence with Location of Cross Section
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Teixeira et al. 2011
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Processes Simulated by the Parallel Ocean Program
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Illustration of all processes and physical model elements that are parameterized in numerical weather prediction models. Includes 20 different items, such as topography, deep convection, longwave radiation absorption and emission, microphysical processes, land surface processes and land use types, soil and vegetation processes, snow/water/ice at the earth surface, atmospheric radiation transfer, etc.
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Global Greenhouse Gas Forcing 1850-2000 Used in the Third Paleoclimate Model Intercomparison Project (PMIP3)
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Landrum et al. 2011 (in press)
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Global Land Use Forcing 1850-2000 Used in the Third Paleoclimate Model Intercomparison Project (PMIP3)
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Landrum et al. 2011 (in press)
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Global Volcanic and Solar Forcing 1850-2000 Used in the Third Paleoclimate Model Intercomparison Project (PMIP3)
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Landrum et al. 2011 (in press)
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Schematic diagram illustrating the difference between weather prediction and climate projection
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prediction_projection.mp4
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Summary of the principal components of the radiative forcing of climate change
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Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Working Group I Contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Figure SPM.2. Cambridge University Press.
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Sea Ice Concentration (%) for 1981-2005. Top (a-b): Observed Climatology from SSM/I/SSMR Satellites. Bottom (c-d): Ensemble Mean from CCSM4 Model. Black Line is the Ice Edge from SSM/I/SSMR Data.
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Jahn et al. 2011
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Processes Simulated by the Community Ice CodE
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animation of Earth orbiting Sun to explain seasons
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seasons.mp4
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Photo of the Shasta Dam
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Bureau of Reclamation
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Observed Surface Winds, Ocean Temperatures, and Currents across the Equatorial Pacific, Oct 2006 to Sep 2011
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sst-wind-cur-eqt-20c.mp4
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TAO / PMEL / NOAA
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Sea-Surface Temperature Anomalies for the Niño 3.4 Region in Observations, CCSM4 (1°), and CCSM3 (T85).
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Adam Phillips, NCAR/CCSM
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