New publication on the experimental setup of weather@home

A paper detailing the model development, experimental setup and validation of the weather@home project has been published in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.

The paper is open access and is available to read here:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/qj.2455/abstract

The paper explains the background to climateprediction.net and how the project is using regional climate modelling to answer questions about the attribution of extreme weather events – “Was the event caused by anthropogenic climate change?”

weather@home – development and validation of a very large ensemble modelling system for probabilistic event attribution

Neil Massey, Richard Jones, Friederike Otto, Tolu Aina, Simon Wilson, James Murphy, David Hassell, Hiro Yamazaki and Myles Allen

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, DOI: 10.1002/qj.2455