Climate Scientist / Modeler — Career Preview

Use physics and supercomputers to forecast Earth's future

Climate scientists and modelers study Earth's atmosphere, oceans, ice, and biosphere using physics, math, and large-scale simulations to understand past climate, predict future change, and inform policy and adaptation.

A day in the life

You review overnight runs of a global climate model on a supercomputer, debug a Python script processing satellite data, meet with a policy team about regional drought projections, and draft a section of a paper for peer review.

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