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What is climateprediction.net?
Climateprediction.net is the largest experiment to try and produce a forecast of the climate in the 21st century.
To do this, we need people around the world to give us time on their computers - time when they have their computers switched on, but are not using them to their full capacity.
read more about the experiment »


Why?
Climate change, and our response to it, are issues of global importance, affecting food production, water resources, ecosystems, energy demand, insurance costs and much else.
There is a broad scientific consensus that the Earth will probably warm over the coming century; climateprediction.net should, for the first time, tell us what is most likely to happen.
read more about climate science »


What do we want you to do?
You can download a climate model from this website. It will run automatically as a background process on your computer whenever you switch your computer on.
It should not affect any other tasks you use your computer for.
As the model runs, you can watch the weather patterns on your, unique, version of the world evolve.
The results are sent back to us via the internet, and you will be able to see a summary of your results on this web site.
Climateprediction.net uses the same underlying software, BOINC, as many other distributed computing projects.
If you like, you can participate in more than one project at a time.
go to BOINC/ climateprediction.net download page »


Where can you go for help?
We have two discussion boards moderated by experienced volunteers who can offer assistance to participants.
They also maintain the CPDN README collections, which are a good source of advice on common problems.

If you are in the climate research community and are interested in participating in the experiment in a research capacity, the research pages provide some basic background material.

http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi
News
Wed, 4 Feb 2009 Classic CPDN client support
Wed, 21 Jan 2009 PHP Board Upgraded
Fri, 7 Nov 2008 Myles Allen Lectures
Fri, 17 Oct 2008 Myles Allen & Bjørn Lomborg debate
Wed, 1 Oct 2008 Geoengineering Experiment released
Fri, 12 Sep 2008 5th Anniversary of CPDN Launch
Thu, 4 Sep 2008 New Application Added
Wed, 13 Aug 2008 PHP Board Maintenance, 15th August
Tue, 1 Jul 2008 33 million model years and counting ...
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 CPDN receives plug at IOP workshop for Physics teachers
Experiment Status
Model Years 40,691,199
Active Hosts 55,812
Complete Model Simulations
HadSM3 297,070
HadAM3 28,271
HadCM3 23,720
Sulphur Cycle 14,987
Spinup 61
HadSM3MH 15,982
Last Updated 16-Feb-2009 08:00:03

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