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Climate Dynamics and Prediction Group
research group members(employees of gfdl/noaa unless otherwise noted)Decadal to Centennial Time Scale Climate Research
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group goals & purposeTo develop and use computer models of the atmosphere-ocean- ice-land system in order to:
GFDL's Climate Dynamics and Prediction Group is charged with studying and modeling climate phenomena on seasonal to multi-century time scales. The group's work is highly relevant to key elements of of the NOAA Strategic Vision, especially Mission Goal 2 to "Understand climate variability and change to enhance society's ability to respond". You may learn more about NOAA's goals by viewing the PDF file entitled New Priorities for the 21st Century: NOAA's Strategic Vision. In addition to examining a wide range of climate time scales, various members of the group have expertise spanning the expansive set of complex and interconnected parts that together constitute the Earth's physical climate system (this includes the atmosphere, ocean, land surface and sea ice). Group members participate in the development, testing, application, and analysis of numerical models of the climate system. Running on supercomputers, these models are the research tools used by group members to both advance our understanding of the Earth's climate system and to generate products relevent to assessment and policy decision support. research summaries, data products, picture galleries, & news |
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One Page Research Summaries:
For policymakers, students, and the public.
This set of summaries is focused on the simulation
of greenhouse gas-induced climate change.
[PDF] Multipage Research Summaries:
Touching on various GFDL seasonal to interannual (SI) and decadal to centennial (DecCen) climate modeling projects
[HTML] Climate Picture & Animation Gallery(the links below will open in another browser window)
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On-line Datasets SI Experimental Predictions webpage
Global climate model output produced by some of GFDL's dec-cen experiments
is available for download. At present, data files from previous generation
models (referred to as the R30 and R15 models) are available.
Output from GFDL's newly developed CM2 model will be made available
soon after the relevant experiments are completed later in 2004.
News
GFDL Model Results Featured in New Museum |