Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers
Season 2010 Episode 7 | 38s | Video has closed captioning.
Gavin Schmidt: 30 Second Science
Aired: 01/21/10
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(curious instrumental music) - I work on trying to understand the climate, and that means trying to create a virtual reality planet that has the evaporation from the oceans, the formation of clouds, the rainfall patterns, changes in the sea ice in the Arctic, fitting it into a computer, and trying to see if we can prod it and poke it and work out why climate changed in the past, why it's changing now, and what that means for the future.
