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This month’s lecture:  

Predicting Climate Change: Removing the Mystery

Summary :  
Meeting the challenge of predicting climate change involves the collaboration of many different types of scientists. The effort will contribute to the success of projecting the impacts of global warming, accurately predicting El Niņo phenomena, and providing improved weather forecasts. This talk will discuss fundamentals and challenges associated with building climate models, and how new satellites, instruments, and supercomputers are combining to improve climate models and their predictive capabilities.
Speaker :   Duane Waliser
Principal Scientist, JPL Water and Carbon Cycles Group
Location:   Thursday, October 18, 2007, 7p.m.

The von Kármán Auditorium at JPL
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA
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    Friday, October 19, 2007, 7p.m.

The Vosloh Forum at Pasadena City College
1570 East Colorado Blvd.
Pasadena, CA
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