EdGCM is an educational version of a global climate model (GCM) that has been ported for use on desktop computers and integrated with a relational database, a graphical user interface, and scientific visualization utllities, all of which are aimed at helping improve the quality of teaching and learning of climate science. The Global Climate Model at the core of EdGCM was developed at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and is referred to in climate modeling literature as the GISS Model II. It is currently in use by researchers to study climates of the past, present and future. EdGCM permits teachers and students to conduct in-depth investigations of current climate science topics, in near real-time, just as they are being studied by climate scientists. Climate models use quantitative methods to simulate the interactions of the atmosphere, oceans, land surface, and ice. ...
We find that while the combination of reduced solar luminosity, atmospheric CO2 levels, and ocean heat transports does cool the planet significantly, it is still not sufficient to reproduce the first-order characteristics of the Sturtian snowball Earth glaciation.
EdGCM, and presumably higher-resolution GCMs, are capable of local scale studies when the scientific accuracy of the results does not require a high degree of quantitative precision.
MTG Climate used EdGCM to recreate the climatic conditions of 21 thousand years ago, when our planet was at the peak of the last Ice Age (i.e.
EdGCM incorporates a three-dimensional climate computer model that includes complex computer programs in a way that will be familiar to most PC users.
An "EdGCM Cooperative" is also being designed to encourage communication between students at different schools and between schools and research institutions.
EdGCM incorporates a 3-D climate computer model developed at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, includes complex computer programs in a way that will be familiar to most PC users.
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