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climateprediction.net is a volunteer distributed computing project that needs your help to do research in climate science.

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climateprediction.net

Why climateprediction.net?

Myles Allen first thought about the need for large climate ensembles in 1997, and was introduced to the success of SETI@home in 1999. A 2003 launch only offered a Windows "classic" client. On 26 August 2004 a BOINC client was launched which supported Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

Goal

Investigate the approximations that have to be made in state-of-the-art climate models.

Methods

By running the model thousands of times we hope to find out how the model responds to slight tweaks to these approximations - slight enough to not make the approximations any less realistic. This will allow us to improve our understanding of how sensitive our models are to small changes and also to things like changes in carbon dioxide and the sulphur cycle. This will allow us to explore how climate may change in the next century under a wide range of different scenarios.

Scientific Projects

Current:

* DOCILE (Drives Of Change In mid-Latitude weather Events) * TNC (The Nature Conservancy) * GOTHAM (Globally Observed Teleconnections and their role and representation in Hierarchies of Atmospheric Models) * AFLAME (attributing Amazon Forest fires from Land-use Alteration and Meteorological Extremes) * HIASA * EMBARK * National Trust

Completed:

* weather@home * HadCM3 and other models

Project team / Sponsors

Prof Myles R. Allen, Andy Bowery, Dr Neven S. Fuckar, Dr Sihan Li, Dr Friederike E. L. Otto, Professor David Wallom.

Based at the University of Oxford in the Environmental Change Institute, the Oxford e-Research Centre and Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics

Scientific publications

climateprediction.net/publications/


Project Summary

This BOINC project enables volunteers to contribute computing power to scientific research from home. Results support breakthroughs in the respective field of study and demonstrate the potential of volunteer computing.

Contributing

To participate, install the BOINC client and attach to the project using its official URL: https://www.climateprediction.net/. Your computer will perform calculations and report results back to the project servers automatically.

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