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Article: National Center for Atmospheric Research Releases New Version of Premier Global Climate Model.
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- June 22, 2004
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Byline: National Center for Atmospheric Research
BOULDER, Colo., June 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) on June 23 is unveiling a powerful new version of a supercomputer-based system to model Earth's climate and project global temperature rise in coming decades. Scientists will contribute results from the new system to the next assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an international research body that advises policymakers on the likely impacts of climate change.
The system, known as the Community Climate System Model, version 3 (CCSM3), indicates in a preliminary finding that global ...