The aim of climateprediction.net is to investigate the approximations that have to be made in state-of-the-art climate models (read more about this). By running the model thousands of times (a 'large ensemble') 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. In the past estimates of climate change have had to be made using one or, at best, a very small ensemble (tens rather than thousands!) of model runs. By using your computers, we will be able to improve our understanding of, and confidence in, climate change predictions more than would ever be possible using the supercomputers currently available to scientists.
UK Met Office HADSM3
Duration 45 model years
Estimated WU Completion Time
@ 2.5 Seconds/Timestep computational average 22 days
Supported Platforms Windows, Intel Mac & Linux
UK Met Office HADCM3
Duration 80 model years (Variable up to 160 model years)
Estimated WU Completion Time
@ 2.5 Seconds/Timestep computational average 60 days
Supported Platforms Windows, Intel Mac & Linux
UK Met Office HADAM3
Requires 1.5GB RAM minimum Not selected
Duration 1 model year
Estimated WU Completion Time
@ 25.0 Seconds/Timestep computational average 15 days
Supported Platforms Windows & Linux
UK Met Office HADSM3 Mid-Holocene
Duration 60 model years
Estimated WU Completion Time
@ 2.5 Seconds/Timestep computational average 30 days
Supported Platforms Windows, Intel Mac & Linux
Fehler:
exit code -99 (0x63) fehlerhafte Parameterdatei
exit code -161 Modell endete ohne ein Ergebnis abzuliefern (Killertrickle)
