BBC Climate Change Experiment
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and Reading University. It is the Transient coupled model of the Climateprediction.net
Climateprediction.net
Climateprediction.net, or CPDN, is a distributed computing project to investigate and reduce uncertainties in climate modelling. It aims to do this by running hundreds of thousands of different models using the donated idle time of ordinary personal computers, thereby leading to a better...
project.
The Climateprediction.net
Climateprediction.net
Climateprediction.net, or CPDN, is a distributed computing project to investigate and reduce uncertainties in climate modelling. It aims to do this by running hundreds of thousands of different models using the donated idle time of ordinary personal computers, thereby leading to a better...
article is a more complete article about this Distributed computing
Distributed computing
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project.
Many participants joined the project with over 120,000 people signing up in teams.
Results continued to be collected for some time with the follow-up television program being aired in January 2007. On March 8, 2009, Climateprediction.net official declared that BBC Climate Change Experiment was finished, and then shut down this project.
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