Mark Chandler:
1.
EdGCM and NASA's Global Climate Change Education Program
The Educational Global Climate Modeling Project provides user-friendly software, materials and training, with the 
aim of improving the teaching of climate science by allowing students to participate in climate modeling research 
projects that they design and run. EdGCM projects teach students how the scientific process works, and break 
down barriers to learning about climate change by demystifying some of climate science's most complex tools. 
EdGCM is used at numerous schools and universities worldwide, and is now employed by several organizations 
within NASA's Global Climate Change Education program. 
 
2.
ModelE Simulations of the mid-Pliocene Warm Period
This talk will summarize the GISS contribution to a new multi-model comparison project of the mid-Pliocene warm 
period (~3.3 to 3.0 million yr ago). The first phase of the PlioMIP project consisted of simulations performed using 
atmosphere-only climate models forced by observed (proxy) marine and terrestrial boundary conditions. Phase-2 
experiments, just recently completed, utilize fully coupled ocean-atmosphere models - preferably CMIP5 versions. 
Initial results with ModelE reveal a reorganization of ocean circulation that helps drive high latitude warming, but 
not at the level suggested by Pliocene proxy data. It remains unclear at this early stage if any models produce 
anything near to reasonable Pliocene simulations - and the question is still open as to whether or not modern 
GCMs are really as sensitive to GHG forcing as the real world seems to have been.