Summary
Year of implementation: 2003
Architecture: Cloud
FOSS & Licensing: Yes, Open Source
Geographical Coverage: Global
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Planet
Official site : ClimatePrediction.net
Climateprediction.net is a volunteer computing, climate modeling project.
They run climate models on people’s home computers to help answer questions about how climate change is affecting our world, now and in the future.
Evidence of how our climate is changing is vital to encourage investment in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, as well as coping with inevitable change.
Discover how the climate could look by running their free software on your computer. The data generated is sent back to them and incorporated into the climateprediction.net projects.
Their computer models simulate the climate for the next century, producing predictions of temperature, rainfall and the probability of extreme weather events. The more models that are run, the more evidence we gather on climate change.