praveen
18th January 2005, 06:51 AM
hi all,
Did you know that NASA is giving away climate-modeling software for your home computer -- for free? You can use it to run your own experiments on how different factors affect the world's climate.
However, NASA has developed a simplified climate modeling tool called "EdGCM" that runs on a desktop PC (Windows or Mac) -- and they are giving it away as a free download. So you can run experiments and "what-ifs" on the climate model to your heart's content. They have even wrapped it up in a nice interface.
Obviously it is not as computationally-intensive as the most complex models, but they claim that they haven't dumbed it down:
EdGCM permits teachers and students to explore the fundamentals of climate science utilizing tools identical to those used in major climate research programs. Many simple climate experiments are possible (e.g. How does the sun warm the planet?), but, it is also possible to conduct in-depth investigations of current events, in near real-time, as they are being studied by climate scientists.
If you are interested you can download it from http://www.edgcm.org/EdGCMCooperative/Downloads.php
for details about the interface, http://www.edgcm.org/EdGCM/Toolbar.php
source: I got this from Ocean Network site http://community.oceana.org/displaystory/2005/1/13/111541/557
with regards
Did you know that NASA is giving away climate-modeling software for your home computer -- for free? You can use it to run your own experiments on how different factors affect the world's climate.
However, NASA has developed a simplified climate modeling tool called "EdGCM" that runs on a desktop PC (Windows or Mac) -- and they are giving it away as a free download. So you can run experiments and "what-ifs" on the climate model to your heart's content. They have even wrapped it up in a nice interface.
Obviously it is not as computationally-intensive as the most complex models, but they claim that they haven't dumbed it down:
EdGCM permits teachers and students to explore the fundamentals of climate science utilizing tools identical to those used in major climate research programs. Many simple climate experiments are possible (e.g. How does the sun warm the planet?), but, it is also possible to conduct in-depth investigations of current events, in near real-time, as they are being studied by climate scientists.
If you are interested you can download it from http://www.edgcm.org/EdGCMCooperative/Downloads.php
for details about the interface, http://www.edgcm.org/EdGCM/Toolbar.php
source: I got this from Ocean Network site http://community.oceana.org/displaystory/2005/1/13/111541/557
with regards