16/02/2006 - Climateprediction.net
has been running for two years but is now
equipped with new software which makes the
climate models even more sophisticated.
It will help to forecast impacts of climate
change in more detail then is possible now.
Everyone who owns a computer can participate
in the experiment. A network of thousands
of computers all around the globe will help
caclulate the complicated climate models.
Participants download software onto their
personal computers which run the program
when the machine is idle.
The newest, most sophisticated computer
software has been launched this week in
cooperation with the BBC.
"The main change in this model is
that it uses a fully dynamic ocean,"
said the project's chief scientist David
Stainforth from Oxford University. "Previous
versions used a very simplified ocean, whereas
this one allows us to see how the atmosphere
and the ocean interact," he told the
BBC News website.
"WWF is happy to support the experiment
and make the information available to its
members and supporters around the world,"
says Lara Hansen, chief scientist of WWF's
global climate change programme.
For more information and to download the
software go http://bbc.cpdn.org/
