The role of computing in climate science

Thursday, 18 March 2010 11:00am

21st Century School, (Corner of Holywell and Catte Street), Oxford OX1 3BD

Although “High Performance Computing” is currently deployed in several centres for climate research, computing power is not used at sufficient levels to achieve substantial success on a global basis. Given the complexity of the climate problem, a quantum leap in computing capabilities will be necessary to handle next-generation climate models.

In this lecture, Robert Bishop will discuss efforts to build an International Centre for Earth Simulation (ICES) capable of finding new insights into weather, climate, environment and disaster risk reduction.

The lecture is free and open to the public. For more details:
www.21school.ox.ac.uk//news_and_events/events/201001_Bishop.cfm