Climateprediction.net is an experiment which aims to
utilise personal computers across the world to help
scientists quantify the uncertainty encountered in climate
models and generate the world's most comprehensive
probability-based forecast of twenty-first-century
climate.
The experiment, which officially launched on 12
September 2003 at the Science Museum in London and at the
British Association Festival of Science in Salford, is
being run by a team of experts from Oxford University, the
Open University, the Hadley Centre (part of the Met
Office), Rutherford Labs, Tessella and others, with funding
from the Natural Environment Research Council and the
Department for Trade and Industry.
The project team is asking people to download the
climate model onto their personal computer, where it will
run in the background for 6-12 weeks, depending on the
speed of the computer in question. This approach, called
'ensemble forecasting', will enable the team to represent a
whole range of uncertainties on a scale not even the most
cutting edge supercomputers could cope with. Users will be
able to compare 'their world' as produced by their personal
climate model with thousands of other worlds of the other
participants - including the one we happen to live in
today.
Find out more by visiting the
climate
prediction.net website.
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Scenarios
of climate change for islands within the BIC region
This is the first scenarios report published by
the British-Irish Council (BIC) on the 24 July 2003.
It forecasts how the climate in the Western Isles, the
Orkney Islands and the Shetland Isles could change over the
next 100 years. The report, which also covers the Channel
Islands and the Isle of Man, is the latest tool for
decision-makers to be prepared by the Hadley Centre for
Climate Prediction and Research, which is part of the Met
Office.
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Climate Change Scenarios for the United
Kingdom: 2002
Published in April 2002, these scenarios,
produced for the UK Climate Impacts Programme, replace
climate scenarios published in 1998 and offer four
alternative scenarios of how climate change may affect UK
climate over the next hundred years.
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Climate Change Scenarios for the United Kingdom: Summary
Report(PDF 2.33Mb)
Published in September 1998, this summary of a
parallel Technical Report presents scenarios of how the
climate of the UK may change over the next 100 years. The
scenarios were produced for the UK Climate Impacts
Programme (UKCIP).