Climateprediction.net/PRECIS
a knowledge exchange case study
Climateprediction.net is the largest experiment of its kind to try and produce a forecast of the climate in the 21st century. People from across the world, who were willing to give time on their computers, have helped to run the model. This method is known as distributed computing.
People can download a climate model from the website. It runs automatically as a background process whenever they switch their computer on.
The climateprediction.net experiment should help to improve methods to quantify uncertainties of climate projections and scenarios. Hopefully, the experiment will give decision-makers a better scientific basis for addressing one of the biggest potential global problems of the 21st century - climate change.
If you are in the climate research community and are interested in participating in the experiment in a research capacity, the website's research pages provide basic background material.