Visualising GCM output

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This was pretty nifty:

 

http://scienceblogs.com/illconsidered/2009/07/what_does_climate_model_output.php

 

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It's a visualisation of one month's worth of simulation time from a general circulation model, condensed down to a 25 second video.

 

This particular GCM is UCAR's CCSM, with the modeling having been done at NCAR. Oh, did I mention that both NCAR and UCAR are located right here in my hometown? Interesting stuff.