University scientists
from around the country,
in collaboration
with scientists at NCAR,
are developing community models.
This suite of models we have
allow us to investigate problems
from local-scale phenomena
up to the global system --
the weather, the climate,
atmospheric chemistry,
the water cycle,
and how space weather influences
the larger climate system.
We use observations
to inform these models.
So these models are
continually improving
and becoming more sophisticated,
which means we need very large
computational resources.
We provide those
supercomputing resources
to the research community
to enable them to use
these models
to investigate the Earth system.
We also have resources
to educate.
So we have tutorials,
help sessions, annual meetings,
that really enable the community
to be involved
in the development
and the use of these models.
The collaborative nature
of these models
is one of their incredible
strengths.
There are other climate models
and other weather models
developed around the world.
These are one of
the few "community" models.
And because of that,
it really allows us
to build a community
of scientists
to better understand
the climate system,
the weather systems,
the Earth system.
And that is something that
is actually incredibly unique.
