BBC News climate prediction article
"A massive worldwide online effort to predict how the global climate will change this century is being launched in the UK.
A temperature simulation from the experiment
Computer users anywhere on Earth can join by downloading a climate model from a website.
The organisers say it will be the world's largest climate prediction experiment.
They hope it will result in a much more robust picture of the probable future climate.
The experiment is being launched on 12 September at the Science Museum in London and at the British Association science festival in Salford.
It is the fruit of collaboration between the universities of Oxford and Reading, the Met Office, the Open University, the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and a software company, Tessella Support Services.
They expect it to generate "the world's most comprehensive probability-based forecast of 21st-century climate"."
The link to the main website is www.climateprediction.net/index.php, but at this moment its down (yep off to a good start).
The idea is that everybody has a different model and it will be developed and worked on by just you. Sounds kinda cool.
EDIT: Working now.......
EDIT2: Joined and processing now....... this thing looks like it wants a fair bit of CPU power and may take some slower machines a lot longer than just a couple of days to go through just one model scenario. There is no team options yet in terms of stats, but they say they are coming.
"A massive worldwide online effort to predict how the global climate will change this century is being launched in the UK.
A temperature simulation from the experiment
Computer users anywhere on Earth can join by downloading a climate model from a website.
The organisers say it will be the world's largest climate prediction experiment.
They hope it will result in a much more robust picture of the probable future climate.
The experiment is being launched on 12 September at the Science Museum in London and at the British Association science festival in Salford.
It is the fruit of collaboration between the universities of Oxford and Reading, the Met Office, the Open University, the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and a software company, Tessella Support Services.
They expect it to generate "the world's most comprehensive probability-based forecast of 21st-century climate"."
The link to the main website is www.climateprediction.net/index.php, but at this moment its down (yep off to a good start).
The idea is that everybody has a different model and it will be developed and worked on by just you. Sounds kinda cool.
EDIT: Working now.......
EDIT2: Joined and processing now....... this thing looks like it wants a fair bit of CPU power and may take some slower machines a lot longer than just a couple of days to go through just one model scenario. There is no team options yet in terms of stats, but they say they are coming.
