The climate science community must join forces to provide the most accurate predictions and make their results publicly accessible.
As described in our Scientific American OpEd, we call for an international centre for climate models supported by dedicated (and not simply shared) exascale supercomputing to:
This initiative is part of a programme called Extreme Earth which seeks to improve our ability to predict a range of natural and human-induced hazards. The petition will send a clear message to politicians and funding agencies to come together to address one of the biggest challenges for our society'.
Authors
Tim Palmer, University of Oxford
Bjorn Stevens, Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology
Peter Bauer, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts