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Thread: BBC Article about climate change and rainfall in Africa. |
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Eric-Montreal
Cruncher Canada Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 34 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Good article on the BBC about climate change in Africa and how it affects rainfalls / hunger. They talk about a computer simulation project called "Future Climate for Africa". Not sure if the projects are related.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-50726701 |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7844 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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New models, developed as part of FCFA, are now run at extremely high resolution with grid spacing of around 4km (2.5 miles) for the entire continent. I found this quote in the article quite illuminating. I wonder how this study is different and the same as ARP. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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fufu
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Seems like it's another project. ARP is from Delft university and the FCFA project is funded by UK's department for international development and natural environment research council. Richard Washington is a professor of climate science at the school of geography and the environment at Oxford university in the UK.
Both projects sound really close in terms of goals and procedure. The question is, do we have double work for the same cause and if it would make more sense to join the effort. |
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hchc
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Lt. Wurst said:
----------------------------------------Both projects sound really close in terms of goals and procedure. The question is, do we have double work for the same cause and if it would make more sense to join the effort. Reminded me of this  
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cjslman
Master Cruncher Mexico Joined: Nov 23, 2004 Post Count: 2082 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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This is not a BBC article, but still it is an interesting meteorological themed article:
----------------------------------------This new supercomputer promises faster and more accurate weather forecasts https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-new-superc...curate-weather-forecasts/ CJSL Crunching to high heavens... |
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Jim1348
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 13, 2009 Post Count: 1066 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Richard Washington is a professor of climate science at the school of geography and the environment at Oxford university in the UK. Both projects sound really close in terms of goals and procedure. The question is, do we have double work for the same cause and if it would make more sense to join the effort. Yes, he is listed as a "project scientist" for climateprediction.net, and presented a paper at a 2015 conference in Vienna. https://www.climateprediction.net/climatepred...geosciences-union-vienna/ Also, one of his students (Dr. Karsten Haustein) is connected to CPDN in some manner. https://www.climateprediction.net/people/ So it would appear that crunching for CPDN might accomplish a similar goal as here. However, I can never see enough details about the CPDN projects to figure out what they are actually working on at any given time, so the connection may be a bit remote. Maybe someone who knows more about climate science than I do can go over there and ask them. (I do a lot of crunching for them, but that is about all I know). |
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