Serendipity

Here’s a very nice video explaining the basics of how climate models work, produced by the folks at IPSL in Paris. This version is French with English subtitles – for the francophones out there, you’ll notice the narration is a little more detailed than the subtitles. I particularly like bit where the earth grid is unpeeled and fed into the supercomputers:

[Qt:http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~sme/movies/ipsl-modeling-med.mov 480 360]

The original (without the English subtitles) is here: http://www.youtube.com/user/CEADSMCOM