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NASA Releases Free Global Climate Model Software

Posted by samzenpus on from the hurricane-in-the-classroom dept.

ink_polaroid writes "NASA has released its Educational Global Climate Model (EdGCM) for high school and university desktop computers. The software incorporates a 3-D climate model developed at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), New York. It wraps complex computer modeling programs with a graphical interface familiar to most PC users."

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  1. Re:Simulated doomsday? by mnemonic_ · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can you tell me more about this movie? I have never heard of it, nor has it ever been reported on slashdot.

  2. It wraps complex computer modeling programs... by DeVilla · · Score: 4, Funny
    ... with a graphical interface familiar to most PC users.

    Is it fsp or rts? Is it multi-player and/or single player? And is there a God mode?

  3. self prophecising by zenst · · Score: 5, Funny

    In further news today: 1000's of computer's around the World today began running climate modeling software.

    The Combined heat output from all this extra computer processing is expected to bring most model predictions forward by several years due to the extra heat expended.

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  4. I thought that's what they said it did... by SuperKendall · · Score: 5, Funny

    It would be pretty cool to simulate enviromental doomsday scenarios...

    I thought they already said that in the story outline - yes, here it is:

    It wraps complex computer modeling programs with a graphical interface familiar to most PC users

    Obviously here they are talking about the Blue Globe of Death.

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  5. I used it! by _ph1ux_ · · Score: 4, Funny

    We ARE ALL DoooooooMED!!!

  6. Re:Wow - slow down here! by node+3 · · Score: 3, Funny

    They are science related topics, which fits the "News for Nerds" part of the masthead.

    For example:

    NASA (space) Releases (verb) Free (adjective) Global Climate Model (science) Software (computers)

    How can that possibly not be appropriate for slashdot?

  7. A real CASE of global WARMING by tod_miller · · Score: 3, Funny

    "We recommend that you NOT leave the GCM running on a Windows laptop unattended. We have found that some Pentium laptops have difficulty dissipating heat and may shutdown (hibernate) without warning causing the climate model to crash. This does not appear to harm the laptop, but can corrupt GCM output files."

    You heard it here first, laptop heat can cause infertility and crash the planet!

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  8. Re:Simulated doomsday? by RMH101 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can you tell me more about this thing called sarcasm? I have never heard of it, nor has it ever been reported on slashdot.