You can help with new research to understand climate change in more detail than ever before. A new regional climate model available to download and run on personal computers anywhere has been developed by climateprediction.net.

Since the launch of climateprediction.net in 2003, hundreds of thousands of volunteers have donated their computers’ spare processing power to run state-of-the-art global climate models and help scientists learn more about the range of climates we are most likely to encounter in the twenty-first century. The results have been tremendous.

Such global models can tell us a lot, but they are still not detailed enough to tell us much about the potential changes to regional and local weather. To learn about these we need to use a model which is so detailed in its coverage that it can only afford to cover a limited area of the globe – a ‘regional climate model’. In this new “weatherathome” experiment, climateprediction.net has partnered with the Met. Office, with support from Microsoft Research, to develop a regional climate model that is available for download and running on personal computers anywhere.

http://climateprediction.net/weatherathome/
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