Researchers perform multi-century

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Climate scientists used LLNLs supercomputer Thunder to run high-resolution climate model simulations.
Climate scientists used LLNL's supercomputer, Thunder, to run high-resolution climate model simulations.

Using state-of-the-art supercomputers, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory climate scientists have performed a 400-year high-resolution global ocean-atmosphere simulation with results that are more similar to actual observations of surface winds and sea surface temperatures.


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