Thank you for joining our AfricanClimate@home project and allowing us to
use your computing power to help build better climate models for Africa.
We have always had the problem that the climate models we use to
simulate the southern African climate have been developed in Europe and
America. Whilst they are incredible tools for studying our climate they
have biases (e.g. they rain too frequently) because they use parameters
that are appropriate for European or American climates. By participating
in this project you are enabling us to explore these parameters and
decide how they should be configured to better simulate our regional
climate. In the long term this will improve our ability to forecast the
future climate of the region and provide advance warning of climate
hazards such as floods and droughts. This will directly benefit those
people and sectors who are most vulnerable to these hazards. Thanks
again for your support.