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Clip: Season 46 | 2m 32s
Climate models can be used to analyze rainfall, heatwaves, and even coral bleaching events.
Aired: 02/21/19
Video has closed captioning.National corporate funding for NOVA is provided by Draper. Major funding for NOVA is provided by the David H. Koch Fund for Science, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS viewers.
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