Researchers from Purdue University have used their supercomputers to run the largest simulation of what could become the weather in the U.S. between 2071 and 2095. And their model, which was validated by using data from last century, predicts "more extreme temperatures throughout the country and more extreme precipitation along the Gulf Coast, in the Pacific Northwest and east of the Mississippi." The computer model used a grid with an 25-km horizontal resolution and required five months of computing time. Still, the researchers think they need a computer at least 100 times as powerful as the clusters they used to really improve the accuracy of their predictions. Read more for a long analysis of this research project.
Sources: Purdue University news release, October 17, 2005; and various web sites
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