Seasonal Attribution Project
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The Seasonal Attribution Project is a Climateprediction.net
sub-project, with support from the WWF. It runs a high resolution model in order to try to determine the extent to which extreme weather
events are attributable to human-induced global warming
.
The project did cease giving out more work, however there has been a project extension to try a fourth sea surface temperature pattern. Current work will still be accepted and used for collaborations and possibly revisions of papers during the review process.
A further extension will start soon.
The latter two will use the same models. Information has been uploaded but analysis of information generated has not yet started.
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...
sub-project, with support from the WWF. It runs a high resolution model in order to try to determine the extent to which extreme weather
Extreme weather
Extreme weather includes weather phenomena that are at the extremes of the historical distribution, especially severe or unseasonal weather. The most commonly used definition of extreme weather is based on an event's climatological distribution. Extreme weather occurs only 5% or less of the time...
events are attributable to human-induced global warming
Global warming
Global warming refers to the rising average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans and its projected continuation. In the last 100 years, Earth's average surface temperature increased by about with about two thirds of the increase occurring over just the last three decades...
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The project did cease giving out more work, however there has been a project extension to try a fourth sea surface temperature pattern. Current work will still be accepted and used for collaborations and possibly revisions of papers during the review process.
A further extension will start soon.
The Experiments
- United Kingdom floods of Autumn 2000 – Current project.
- Mountain snowpack decline in western North America Developed in collaboration with the Climate Impacts Group at the University of WashingtonUniversity of WashingtonUniversity of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...
. - Heatwave occurrence in South Africa and India
The latter two will use the same models. Information has been uploaded but analysis of information generated has not yet started.