![]() Highest daily maximum temperatures across Australia during the first two weeks of January 2013. Testing extremes in Australia and NZĢ013 was a record-breaking year for extreme heat in Australia and New Zealand. NIWA scientist Suzanne Rosier explains on Vimeo. It allows people to use idle time on their computer (with Windows, Mac, Linux, or Android) to run experiments, creating a virtual “supercomputer” across the world, which automatically shares the results with researchers. BOINC CLIMATE PREDICTION SOFTWARE“We use software called BOINC, developed at the University of California, Berkeley, that has been specifically developed for these sort of citizen science projects – and it has never been used to hack participants’ computers.”īeyond studying weather and climate change, the BOINC software has been widely used for years to help with new science discoveries, including trying to cure diseases, discover pulsars and even search the universe for alien life. “Yes, is safe,” said Dr Friederike Otto from Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute. Speaking at an Australian Science Media Centre briefing on the new project, the researchers told reporters there was no risk to people’s computers – including from hacking – if they took part. They also plan to assess the possible role of climate change in Australia’s 2009 Black Saturday bushfires, and record rain and flooding across eastern Australia in 20, as well as in Golden Bay and Nelson in NZ three years ago. Now scientists from the University of Oxford, the UK Met Office, the University of Melbourne, the University of Tasmania and New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) will examine the record-breaking heatwave in Australia and extreme drought in New Zealand in early 2013. Where in the world people have been volunteering their computers over the past decade to help run experiments on extreme weather. Live results from the UK testing can be seen here. In the UK, that has enabled the equivalent of 20,000 years of simulations to be run in just three weeks, testing the likely contributing factors to this year’s devastating floods. Over the past decade, people in 138 countries with nearly 100,000 different computers have been involved. There are 20,000 people worldwide currently helping with similar climate prediction experiments for Europe, USA and southern Africa. The project, launched in Australia and New Zealand today, is the latest stage of what has been dubbed “the world’s largest climate modelling experiment”, started in the UK a decade ago.Īnyone with a computer and access to the internet can take part by volunteering their computer’s spare processing power to run climate and weather modelling simulations, even while continuing to use their computer normally. By Liz Minchin and Katherine Smyrk, The ConversationĪustralians and New Zealanders can now use their computers to help scientists discover if climate change has contributed to record heatwaves, droughts and flooding across both countries. ![]()
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