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Welcome to the climateprediction.net press pages. You can find a list of all our press materials here. For any other press information, please email climateprediction.net project co-ordinator.

Press release for the BBC Climate Change Experiment

High resolution images for press:

• Cloud
• Cloud
• Temperature
• Temperature

GL model animation

Press release for the G8 meeting, Monday 8th July.

Scientific detail about the production of the data and figures.

high resolution histogram of global temperature change (24 MB)

high resolution image of current and possible future temperatures (the back image shows current summer temperatures, the middle image shows a possible response to current greenhouse gas concentrations in a low sensitivity model and the front image hows a possible response to current greenhouse gas concentrations in a high sensitivity model. (24 MB)

Press release for the publication of the project's first results in Nature, volume 433, January 27, 2005.

Press release for the move of climateprediction.net to the BOINC software platform.

Press releaseto coincide with the release of 'The Day After Tomorrow', explaining our new experiment which investigates the affects of a slow down of the thermo-haline circulation.

Download a virtual copy of our public launch press pack:

• Climateprediction.net launch press release
• Climateprediction.net Leaflet
• UK e-Science programme climateprediction.net Leaflet
• Climateprediction.net Logo
• Objectives of climateprediction.net
• High-Res JPEG of Cloud Visualisation (500KB)
• High-Res JPEG of Temperature Visualisation (400KB)
• High-Res JPEG of Precipitation Visualisation (300KB)
• Lower-Res JPEG of Cloud Visualisation (100KB)
• Lower-Res JPEG of Temperature Visualisation (100KB)
• MPEG Animation of the Visualisation
  (1.5MB, Temperature - Rotating Earth)
• MPEG Animation of the Visualisation
  (1.5MB, Temperature - Fast - End of a Run)
• MPEG Animation of the Visualisation
  (2MB, Clouds - Fly Over of Northern Hemisphere)

On this page, you can find some talks given by members of the Climateprediction.net team for the project's virtual open day in July 2006.

You'll need Windows media player to be able to watch the videos of the presentations (download size 30Mbytes or less) and, as the camera didn't always do a great job of catching what was being shown on the presentations, it might be helpful to have the presentation file (pdf) open at the same time.

If you have any questions or comments arising from the presentations, do use the message boards to raise them, and members of the climateprediction.net team will try to respond. However, as most of our students are deeply bogged in writing reports and theses at this time of year, it might be harder to get a response from them than from of the other members of the team.

Find the talks from our 2004 Open Day in Oxford here.

Climateprediction.net had a very succesful Open Day on 30th July, 2004. For those who couldn't be there, or who would like to revisit some of the talks, they are available below. Unfortunately we can't distribute Dave Stainforth's results talk until some of the figures have appeared in a refereed journal.

For users of Microsoft Windows the videos can be played in Windows Media Player. We recommend using version 9. Many users will already have it installed but it is also available free from Microsoft here.

Users of other systems including Linux, Mac OS X and others can use Video Lan Client (VLC), a free, open source video streaming program available here. We recommend using the most up to date version: 0.7.2 at the time of writing. Windows users can also use VLC if they prefer. Linux user can also use Mplayer.

Andrew Martin's photos of the end of the day can be downloaded here.

A list of everyone who attended the Open Day can be seen here.

Myles Allen, Presentation to CosmoCaixa, Madrid, Spain, March 2003 (y en Español)

Dave Frame, Physics Today lecture to Oxford undergraduates, January, 2003.

Myles Allen, How can we (in)validate a probabilistic forecast?, Talk at the European Geophysical Society, Nice, April 2003.

Myles Allen, Will we ever be able to attribute individual weather events to anthropogenic climate change? , Santiago de Compostela, July, 2003.

Myles Allen, Probability and climate change, Department of Trade and Industry UK/Russia Climate Workshop, October, 2003. (In Russian.)

Extended abstract of a talk to be presented by Myles Allen to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Workshop on Uncertainty and Risk, Maynooth, Ireland, May 12-14th, 2004

Myles Allen, Making heavy weather, (Day After Tomorrow film review), Nature, 429, May 2004

Myles Allen, Changing climate, public presentation at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, July 2004.

Sylvia Knight, climateprediction.net - Progress so far..., NIWA (National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research), New Zealand, November 2004.

Sylvia Knight, Do-it-yourself climate prediction, video conference with 7 schools in New Zealand, November 2004.

Myles Allen, Human influence on weather risk: the 2003 European heat wave, COP10, Buenos Aires, December, 2004.

Sylvia Knight, Do-it-yourself climate prediction, talk to Slough Grammar School, December 2004.

Myles Allen, A novel view of global warming, Myles Allen reviews State of Fear by Michael Crichton, Nature, 433, January 2005

Sylvia Knight, climateprediction.net - help predict 21st century climate, talk to the Association for Science Education, January 2005

Dave Stainforth, Risks Associated with Stabilization Scenarios?, talk at Stabilisation 2005, the Met Office, Exeter, February 2005

Sylvia Knight, climateprediction.net - predicting 21st century climate, talk to the Geography Association, March 2005

Dave Frame, climateprediction.net, NIWA (National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research), New Zealand, March 2005.

Myles Allen,
Is there a safe GHG stabilisation level? Results from
climateprediction.net, Report to NERC council, Swindon, April 2005.

Jim Hansen, Grand Ensembles: Confidence, Uncertainty and Probability in Climate Change Forecasts, talk to Coal Technology Society of America, April 2005.

Sam Dean, Climate Change, Cafe Scientifique, Cuba, April 2005.

Neil Massey, Data Access and Analysis with Distributed, Federated Data Servers in climateprediction.net, presentation to the European Geophysical Union, April 2005.

Myles Allen, Probability in attributing and predicting climate change, British Council, Leipzig, April 2005.

Myles Allen, Model error in weather and climate forecasting, presentation to Reading University, May 2005.

Myles Allen, The Spectre of Liability, talk at the Climate Change Solutions meeting, Birmingham, May 2005.

Sylvia Knight, Attributing and predicting
climate change, British Council, Bonn, August 2005.

Sylvia Knight, Climateprediction.net: Communicating climate prediction, Royal Meteorological Society, September 2005.

Dave Frame, Predicting and Attributing Climate Change, British Council, Warsaw, Poland, September 2005.

Myles Allen, Attribution of Climate Change: the Spectre of Liability, Presentation to Pretorial Meeting, October 2005.

Sylvia Knight, Predicting future climate change, Kazakh-British Technical University (Almaty, Kazakhstan), Almaty Energy Institute (Almaty, Kazakhstan), Agrarian University (Astana, Kazakhstan) and Eurasian University (Astana, Kazakhstan), October 2005.

Sylvia Knight, Climate change education and research in the U.K., Al Farabi National University (Almaty, Kazakhstan), October 2005.

Sylvia Knight, Attributing and Predicting climate change, Institute of Biophysics (Krasnoyarsk, Siberia), October 2005.

Sylvia Knight, Attributing and predicting future climate change, Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University (Siberia), October 2005.

Dave Frame, Climate Prediction and its Uncertainties, School of Geographical Science, Bristol , October 2005.

Dave Frame, Predicting Climate Change, OUCE (Oxford University Centre for the Environment) , Oxford, January 2006.

Sylvia Knight, Simulate the Climate of 1920-2080 on your home computer, (talk to students) Natural History Museum
,Stockholm, Sweden, March 2006.

Sylvia Knight, Climateprediction.net; predicting 21st century climate, (talk to teachers) Natural History Museum, Stockholm, Sweden, March 2006.

Myles Allen, Puzzles arising from climateprediction.net, Newcastle, March 2006.

Dave Stainforth, Public Resource Distributed Modelling, Stockholm, Sweden, March 2006.

Daniel Goodman, Martlet: a scientific work-flow language for abstracted parallisation, All Hands meeting, Nottingham, 2006.

Milo Thurston, Presentation at the Dana Centre, London, January 2007.

Nick Faull and Milo Thurston, Precicting Climate Change Through Volunteer Computing, Oxford University Computing Services, February 2007.

Milo Thurston, Climateprediction.net Data Curation, Oxford University e-Research Centre's Digital Curation Centre meeting, February 2007.

Myles Allen, What can be said about 21st century climate?, June 2007.

Myles Allen, A North African perspective on Climate Change, October 2007.

Rachael McDonald, Climate Change in Libya 1957-2057, Nov 2007.

Helen Hanlon, Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events, Oxon. Women's Institutes and Climate Xchange, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, Nov 2007.

Myles Allen, Energy and Climate: understanding climate change, Said Business School, Oxford, January 2008.

Myles Allen, What can be said about future climate? Quantifying uncertainty in multi-decade climate forecasting, Harvard University, February 2008.

Myles Allen, The Physics of Climate Change (454MB download), Oxford University, November 2008.

Myles Allen, Energy and Climate Change, Oxford University, November 2008.

Myles Allen, Interview on the Chris Evans Radio Show relating to the Seasonal Attribution Project, 12th December 2008.

Carl Christensen, Volunteer Computing In The Earth Sciences, Institute of Physics, London, 10 September, 2009.

Myles Allen, Beware of what you wish for in Copenhagen. 16 December 2009.

Derek Rosendahl and David Karoly, Estimating uncertainties in global and regional climate change projections using a large multi-member climate model ensemble (poster presentation) Seventh NOAA Annual Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop, USA, March, 2009.

Derek Rosendahl and David Karoly, Estimating uncertainties in global and regional climate change projections using a multi-thousand member climate model ensemble (poster presentation) 22nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change at the 90th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, USA, Jan, 2010.

D.J. Frame, T. Aina, C.M. Christensen, N. E. Fall, S.H.E. Knight, C. Piani, S.M. Rosier, K. Yamazaki, Y. Yamazaki and M.R. Allen, The climateprediction.net BBC climate change experiment: design of the coupled model ensemble, Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society A, 367, pp.855-870, 2009.

D. Goodman, Introduction and Evaluation of Martlet, a Scientific Workflow Language for Abstracted Parallelisation, Proceedings of the Sixteenth International World Wide Web Conference, pp.983-982, May 2007.

D. Goodman, Martlet: a scientific work-flow language for abstracted parallisation, Proceedings of UK e-science All Hands meeting, Nottingham, UK, September 2006.

N. Massey, T. Aina, M. Allen, C. Christensen, D. Frame, D. Goodman, J. Kettleborough, A. Martin, S. Pascoe and D. Stainforth, Data access and analysis with distributed federated data servers in climateprediction.net , Advances in Geosciences, 8, p49-56, 2006.

Carl Christensen, Tolu Aina, David Stainforth, The Challenge of Volunteer Computing With Lengthy Climate Modelling Simulations, Proceedings of the 1st IEEE Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing, Melbourne, Australia, 5-8 Dec 2005

David Stainforth, Andrew Martin, Andrew Simpson, Carl Christensen, Jamie Kettleborough, Tolu Aina, and Myles Allen, Security Principles for Public-Resource Modeling Research, Proceedings of the 13th IEEE Conference on Enabling Grid Technologies (ENTGRID), Modena, Italy, June 2004

David Stainforth, Jamie Kettleborough, Andrew Martin, Andrew Simpson, Richard Gillis, Ali Akkas, Richard Gault, Mat Collins, David Gavaghan, & Myles Allen, Climateprediction.net: design principles for public resource modelling research, Proc. 14th IASTED conference on parallel and distributed computing systems, 2002.

David Stainforth, Jamie Kettleborough, Myles Allen, Matthew Collins, & Andy Heaps, Climateprediction.com: Distributed Computing for Public Interest Modelling Research. Computing in Science and Engineering, vol 4, no. 3, 2002.

The core institutions behind the climateprediction.net project are the University of Oxford, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and The Open University, all based in UK. The work we do would be impossible without the contributions of the following governmental and academic institutions, and associated commercial organisations:

Funding bodies

The climateprediction.net project is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) via the research programme COAPEC (Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Processes and European Climate), with additional funding through the Department of Trade and Industry's e-Science core programme and the European Union's ENSEMBLES and MILLENNIUM projects.

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Corporate sponsors

Microsoft has provided financial support for the further development of client software and grid services for scientist access to the climateprediction.net dataset.

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Associated partners

We are very grateful to the following science institutions and organisations which have provided support: the UK MetOffice and its Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, and the Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Processes and European Climate research programme (COAPEC). The project relies on software developed by the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) based at the University of California, Berkeley.

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The core institutions behind the climateprediction.net project are the University of Oxford, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and The Open University, all based in UK. The work we do would be impossible without the contributions of the following governmental and academic institutions, and associated commercial organisations:

Funding bodies

The climateprediction.net project is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) via the research programme COAPEC (Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Processes and European Climate), with additional funding through the Department of Trade and Industry's e-Science core programme and the European Union's ENSEMBLES project.

More about NERC
More about the UK e-Science Programme
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