High resolution climate simulation - The real cloud computing

This animation shows near surface air temperature (colors), clouds (white) and precipitation (blue) from a simulation using the Community Earth System Model (CESM), maintained by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The global climate model was run at a resolution of about 25km. It shows that today's climate models are capable of simulating climate and weather phenomena in great detail, such as tropical cyclones in the Pacific, occasional cirrus clouds in Central Africa, or orographic precipitation over the Alps.

Computation and visualization performed at ETH Zurich.

For more information, go to http://www.c2sm.ethz.ch/services/data_visualization/

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• global
• climate
• simulation
• C2SM
• ETH
• Zurich
• atmosphere
• temperature
• coupled
• model
• visualization
• CESM