8 publications in special report rely on weather@home simulations to explain extreme weather events of 2014 in Australia, Africa and South America
Posted on 5th November 2015
Human-induced climate change plays a clear and significant role in some extreme weather events but understanding the other risks at a local level is also important, highlights Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society’s annual special report, Explaining Extreme Events of 2014 from a Climate Perspective. For the fourth year in a row it investigates the […]
Record hot October in Australia at least 6 times more likely due to global warming
Posted on 5th November 2015
Writing in The Conversation CPDN partners David Karoly and Mitchell Black provide a real-time assessment of the role human-induced climate change and the ongoing El Nino are playing in the record breaking October temperatures in Australia. The magnitude of the monthly mean anaomalies is huge, with 1 deg Celcisus above the previous October record for […]
Weather@Home Mexico: New Climate Modelling Experiment Launching Soon
Posted on 25th August 2015
We’re pleased to announce that we will be adding a new regional model to our weather@home regional modelling experiments, covering Mexico and parts of North and South America.
Change needed to avoid ‘paralysis’ in climate policies
Posted on 4th August 2015
Climate scientists, including climateprediction.net’s Dr Friederike Otto and Professor Myles Allen, are calling for an overhaul of the way climate change pledges are assessed, in order to avoid ‘indefinite procrastination’ on designing efficient mitigation policies.
Weather@home 2015 Western US Drought: All models have been sent out, about half have come back
Posted on 23rd July 2015
So, thanks to the fantastic efforts of our volunteers, all 22,000 models for this experiment have now been downloaded to run on people’s home computers, and nearly half have finished running and have been uploaded back to our servers. The plots for the results so far have been updated to include all the models that […]