Little Earth Makers: A Clearer View of Our World

When we try to understand how the air, water, and heat move around our world, we sometimes use very big computers to take things that we see in the real world and join them with laws and numbers, to make a little Earth 2.0 that can be looked at on our screens. That's why we call them "Little Earth Makers".  

To make the Earth 2.0, the computers break the world into little pieces. For each piece, the computer looks at things like how fast the air moves, how warm or cold it is, how much water is in the air, and what is on the ground (like trees, water, or cities). Then, the computer figures out how all the pieces work together to show us what might happen in the future. The bigger these pieces are, the less we can see on our little Earth 2.0. Smaller pieces will help us to discover new parts of the world. It's like putting on your glasses - dancing shapes and colors turn into faces and moving cars.  

Like a set of new glasses, the youngest kind of Little Earth Makers helps us to see single parts of the world more clearly.