Journal article
The weather@home regional climate modelling project for Australia and New Zealand
MT Black, DJ Karoly, SM Rosier, SM Dean, AD King, NR Massey, SN Sparrow, A Bowery, D Wallom, RG Jones, FEL Otto, MR Allen
Geoscientific Model Development | COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH | Published : 2016
Abstract
A new climate modelling project has been developed for regional climate simulation and the attribution of weather and climate extremes over Australia and New Zealand. The project, known as weather@home Australia-New Zealand, uses public volunteers' home computers to run a moderate-resolution global atmospheric model with a nested regional model over the Australasian region. By harnessing the aggregated computing power of home computers, weather@home is able to generate an unprecedented number of simulations of possible weather under various climate scenarios. This combination of large ensemble sizes with high spatial resolution allows extreme events to be examined with well-constrained estim..
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Awarded by Natural Environment Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank Daithi Stone and Andrew Ciavarella for their assistance in improving the original manuscript. M. T. Black, D. J. Karoly and A. D. King have been supported by funding from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (grant no. CE110001028). Weather@home ANZ is a collaboration among the University of Oxford, the UK Met Office, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science in Australia, NIWA in New Zealand, the University of Melbourne, the University of Tasmania and the Tasmanian Partnership for Advanced Computing. We thank the volunteers who donated their computing time to run weather@home.