climateprediction
Climateprediction.net is an open-access research platform designed to advance scientific understanding of climate change through crowdsourced computing. Launched in 2008, the project leverages the collective processing power of volunteers' computers to run climate simulations, enabling researchers to explore a wide range of climate scenarios with greater efficiency and detail. Participants download and run specialized software that contributes idle computational resources to the project, helping to generate high-resolution climate models.
The platform focuses on improving climate predictions by testing hypotheses related to climate sensitivity, extreme weather
Climateprediction.net is part of a broader movement in citizen science, where public participation complements traditional research
The project operates under an open-data philosophy, sharing its findings with the scientific community and the