Weather at Home - use your computer to help model climate change

17 February 2011, Earth Times
URL: http://www.earthtimes.org/scitech/weather-computer-model-climate-change/27/

Scientists don't know enough about climate change, particularly how it will vary locally. One of the most significant climate sites, climateprediction.net has today launched an experiment you can do at home.

It's called “weatherathome” in partnership with the UK's Met. Office, and with support from Microsoft Research, to develop a regional climate model that is available for download so you can run it on your personal computer anywhere. This will be the world's largest climate experiment and will give the scientists involved a huge amount of processing power, producing results which will keep them busy for years.

"You can get involved, simply by downloading the software and reporting on weather in your area. Initially this will cover the Western USA, Europe, and Southern Africa, because this is where there are plenty of computers, in addition Southern Africa is thought to be particularly vulnerable to climate change