The Google Geo Challenge was also supposed to announce grants in January or February. They sent an email in March saying they were delayed due to overwhelming response, and nothing since.
Google grants seem quite popular! But better communication would be appreciated.
A nice port-scanning secviz realtime animation was mentioned (I think here?) back in 2003. See this paper (images and animations are at the bottom) from DOE/LBNL/NERSC.
The thing about climate models is that they get more complex and higher resolution as soon as the computers get faster. We will always take about 3 months to run a simulation. You can run it faster? Make it more detailed. It takes longer? Wait a few months to a year and it'll only take 3 months. Why 3 months? Not sure. Partly because that is about the length of a funding cycle of design experiment, run it, analyze, and write it up.
If you want to run 100 years per day, you can do so with an older model. The EdGCM project has wrapped a NASA global climate model (GCM) in a GUI (OS X and Win). You can add CO2 or turn the sun down by a few percent all with a checkbox and a slider. Supercomputers and advanced FORTRAN programmers are no longer necessary to run your own GCM.
True, you cannot replicate anything unless we clone Earth. This model lets you 'examine similar situations'.
The term we use is actually 'rediscovery', as you can re-do (similarly) old or ongoing research. You can of course do your own research too, but it isn't a high res GCM because your laptop isn't a supercomputer.
And if you want to know all the assumptions, the source code is available...
Yes there are plans to migrate away from 4D. Similar projects? Some... There is a Java climate model online, but not full 4D physics. And there are lots of other full GCMs you can run on Linux but none have GUIs that I know of.
Your suggested DBs don't provide GUIs which is something we offer.
If you do want to run our code, you can do so via the CLI although it isn't officially supported. The forums have some posts about running it in Linux.
If you'd like to replicate this experiment in a NASA climate simulation yourself, the EdGCM project has wrapped a NASA global climate model (GCM) in a GUI (OS X and Win). You can add CO2 or turn the sun down by a few percent all with a checkbox and a slider. Supercomputers and advanced FORTRAN programmers are no longer necessary to run your own GCM.
If you'd like to simulate this yourself, the EdGCM project has wrapped a NASA global climate model (GCM) in a GUI (OS X and Win). You can add CO2 or turn the sun down by a few percent all with a checkbox and a slider. Supercomputers and advanced FORTRAN programmers are no longer necessary to run your own GCM.
The EdGCM project has wrapped a NASA global climate model (GCM) in a GUI (OS X and Win). You can add CO2 or turn the sun down by a few percent all with a checkbox and a slider. Supercomputers and advanced FORTRAN programmers are no longer necessary to run your own GCM.
Targeted to high school and undergraduate levels. Includes lesson plans, sample homework assignments, and documentation about how it meets the education standards.
Of course, it is a 10 year old climate model, but that is about right because a modern laptop is equivalent in to a 10 year old super computer. And it is all relative... The climate models today are limited in resolution by the supercomputers (don't run anything that takes more than 3 months) and next years supercomputer development will in part be driven by the climate modeler requests and desires for more hardware.
This won't solve all your problems, but if you are on OS X it looks like it might make GMail pretty nice to use w/o your browser: http://mailplaneapp.com/
Also, if you'd like to do some of the experiments discussed in the article yourself, the EdGCM project has wrapped a NASA global climate model (GCM) in a GUI (OS X and Win). You can add CO2 or turn the sun down by a few percent all with a checkbox and a slider. Supercomputers and advanced FORTRAN programmers are no longer necessary to run your own GCM.
If you'd like to run some of the same experiments done in the IPCC report, you can (with a slightly older code base). The EdGCM project has wrapped a NASA global climate model (GCM) in a graphical interface and ported to Mac/Win. You can add CO2 or turn the Sun down with your mouse, a checkbox, and a slider. Simple graphical tools are included to look at the final results (there are hundreds of variables to choose from).
If you'd like to study climate change yourself, the EdGCM project has wrapped a NASA global climate model (GCM) in a GUI (OS X and Win). You can add CO2 or turn the sun down by a few percent all with a checkbox and a slider. Supercomputers and advanced FORTRAN programmers are no longer necessary to run your own GCM.
Via Technologies, Inc. is shipping a new processor and starting a "Clean Computing Initiative" aimed at offsetting the chip's environmental cost. They claim it is the worlds first "carbon-free" CPU.
The EdGCM project has wrapped a NASA global climate model (GCM) in a GUI (OS X and Win). Our goal is to 'democratize' climate change science by allowing anyone to run a global climate model. If you can attach some numbers to these geo-engineering techniques you can study their effects yourself.
For example, to simulate the sun-shade, you can just turn down the sun a few percent with a checkbox and a slider!. Painting roofs would be equivalent to increasing albedo slightly, and I don't think the model would let you pump sulfur into the atmosphere (that is hard-coded, not exposed to the GUI interface), but you can change the amount of all the greenhouse gasses via the UI.
Supercomputers and advanced FORTRAN programmers are no longer necessary to run your own GCM.
If you'd like to do some of the experiments discussed in the article yourself, the EdGCM project has wrapped a NASA global climate model (GCM) in a GUI (OS X and Win). You can add CO2 and/or turn the sun down by a few percent (to measure solar effects) all with a checkbox and a slider. Supercomputers and advanced FORTRAN programmers are no longer necessary to run your own GCM.
If you'd like simulate a water world yourself, the EdGCM project has wrapped a NASA global climate model (GCM) in a GUI (OS X and Win). You can add CO2 or turn the sun down by a few percent all with a checkbox and a slider. Supercomputers and advanced FORTRAN programmers are no longer necessary to run your own GCM.
It is a very general GCM so included in the download are paleo-earth configurations. You can run a simulation of the earth from 750 million years ago when it was mostly covered in water (but also very cold) to see one possible scenario. As mentioned above, you can add CO2 and turn up or down the sun or any other GHG to see other scenarios.
If you'd like to do some of the same experiments that these scientists do, the EdGCM project has wrapped a NASA global climate model (GCM) in a GUI (OS X and Win). You can add CO2 or turn the sun down by a few percent all with a checkbox and a slider. Supercomputers and advanced FORTRAN programmers are no longer necessary to run your own GCM.
For example, our model shows increased snowfall on Greenland (a common skeptic retaliation). This does not mean global warming is not happening, but rather what was predicted: Warmer air can hold more moisture, so there is increased snowfall. The melting on the edges is occurring faster, so overall we have mass loss of the ice cap.
Disclaimer of course... I work as a programmer in the field. Not a scientist, and not an expert on hurricanes, but here is my take on the article.
It never mentions 'climate change' or 'global warming'. It simply says that hurricanes are "...strongly related to a climate pattern known as the multi-decadal signal". This is neither weather prediction nor making estimates of the effects of climate change. We know that when the Pacific is in an El Nino or La Nina phase and also depending on Atlantic currents that certain global patterns are more likely. Is it a local effect within 10 days to 2 weeks? No, then it isn't a weather forecast. It also has very little to do with GCMs, as you don't need a predictive model to tell you this, we can look at historical trends of hurricanes correlated to ENSO events.
Now, will a global change in climate have an effect on the El Nino / La Nina cycles? Will it change them? Will it change what happens when they occur? Will it affect Atlantic currents day-to-day or these year-long trends that come and go? Will it change the wind patterns? That is an entirely different question and not discussed by me nor in that article.
Note that the article does support my original statement that warmer ocean temperatures are positively correlated to increased hurricane strength, and also that
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The Google Geo Challenge was also supposed to announce grants in January or February. They sent an email in March saying they were delayed due to overwhelming response, and nothing since.
Google grants seem quite popular! But better communication would be appreciated.
I was there last year. For some pics of the detectors and the hot water drill used to lower the detector strings see http://spacebit.org/v/places/Antarctica/SouthPole
The drill seems straight out of Austin Powers or Bond for drilling into the core of the earth.
The visualization software (image above) was running on Linux FYI.
A nice port-scanning secviz realtime animation was mentioned (I think here?) back in 2003. See this paper (images and animations are at the bottom) from DOE/LBNL/NERSC.
The thing about climate models is that they get more complex and higher resolution as soon as the computers get faster. We will always take about 3 months to run a simulation. You can run it faster? Make it more detailed. It takes longer? Wait a few months to a year and it'll only take 3 months. Why 3 months? Not sure. Partly because that is about the length of a funding cycle of design experiment, run it, analyze, and write it up.
If you want to run 100 years per day, you can do so with an older model. The EdGCM project has wrapped a NASA global climate model (GCM) in a GUI (OS X and Win). You can add CO2 or turn the sun down by a few percent all with a checkbox and a slider. Supercomputers and advanced FORTRAN programmers are no longer necessary to run your own GCM.
Disclaimer: I'm the project developer.
OP here...
True, you cannot replicate anything unless we clone Earth. This model lets you 'examine similar situations'.
The term we use is actually 'rediscovery', as you can re-do (similarly) old or ongoing research. You can of course do your own research too, but it isn't a high res GCM because your laptop isn't a supercomputer.
And if you want to know all the assumptions, the source code is available...
Yes there are plans to migrate away from 4D. Similar projects? Some... There is a Java climate model online, but not full 4D physics. And there are lots of other full GCMs you can run on Linux but none have GUIs that I know of.
Your suggested DBs don't provide GUIs which is something we offer.
If you do want to run our code, you can do so via the CLI although it isn't officially supported. The forums have some posts about running it in Linux.
If you'd like to replicate this experiment in a NASA climate simulation yourself, the EdGCM project has wrapped a NASA global climate model (GCM) in a GUI (OS X and Win). You can add CO2 or turn the sun down by a few percent all with a checkbox and a slider. Supercomputers and advanced FORTRAN programmers are no longer necessary to run your own GCM.
Disclaimer: I'm the project developer.
http://xkcd.com/350/
If you'd like to simulate this yourself, the EdGCM project has wrapped a NASA global climate model (GCM) in a GUI (OS X and Win). You can add CO2 or turn the sun down by a few percent all with a checkbox and a slider. Supercomputers and advanced FORTRAN programmers are no longer necessary to run your own GCM.
Disclaimer: I'm the project developer.
Here is a great scorecard of all missions to mars showing which have succeeded, which have failed, and why: http://www.bio.aps.anl.gov/~dgore/fun/PSL/marsscorecard.html
The EdGCM project has wrapped a NASA global climate model (GCM) in a GUI (OS X and Win). You can add CO2 or turn the sun down by a few percent all with a checkbox and a slider. Supercomputers and advanced FORTRAN programmers are no longer necessary to run your own GCM.
Targeted to high school and undergraduate levels. Includes lesson plans, sample homework assignments, and documentation about how it meets the education standards.
Disclaimer: I'm the project developer.
I recently saw that fink is looking for mirror space. Donate to them?
No link to the actual article or anything w/ birds in the summary. Here it is: http://ptonline.aip.org/journals/doc/PHTOAD-ft/vol_60/iss_10/28_1.shtml
You can already run a climate model on your run-of-the-mill laptop: http://edgcm.columbia.edu/
Of course, it is a 10 year old climate model, but that is about right because a modern laptop is equivalent in to a 10 year old super computer. And it is all relative... The climate models today are limited in resolution by the supercomputers (don't run anything that takes more than 3 months) and next years supercomputer development will in part be driven by the climate modeler requests and desires for more hardware.
Disclaimer: I'm the EdGCM developer.
This won't solve all your problems, but if you are on OS X it looks like it might make GMail pretty nice to use w/o your browser: http://mailplaneapp.com/
GISTEMP is available in Google Earth here: http://dev.edgcm.columbia.edu/wiki/GISTEMP
Also, if you'd like to do some of the experiments discussed in the article yourself, the EdGCM project has wrapped a NASA global climate model (GCM) in a GUI (OS X and Win). You can add CO2 or turn the sun down by a few percent all with a checkbox and a slider. Supercomputers and advanced FORTRAN programmers are no longer necessary to run your own GCM.
Disclaimer: I'm the project developer.
If you'd like to run some of the same experiments done in the IPCC report, you can (with a slightly older code base). The EdGCM project has wrapped a NASA global climate model (GCM) in a graphical interface and ported to Mac/Win. You can add CO2 or turn the Sun down with your mouse, a checkbox, and a slider. Simple graphical tools are included to look at the final results (there are hundreds of variables to choose from).
Disclaimer: I'm the project developer.
If you'd like to study climate change yourself, the EdGCM project has wrapped a NASA global climate model (GCM) in a GUI (OS X and Win). You can add CO2 or turn the sun down by a few percent all with a checkbox and a slider. Supercomputers and advanced FORTRAN programmers are no longer necessary to run your own GCM.
Disclaimer: I'm the project developer.
Via Technologies, Inc. is shipping a new processor and starting a "Clean Computing Initiative" aimed at offsetting the chip's environmental cost. They claim it is the worlds first "carbon-free" CPU.
Runs on Mac too, not just Windows. Click on the "Development" link on the main menu and you'd go to our dev site where you can have your source.
The EdGCM project has wrapped a NASA global climate model (GCM) in a GUI (OS X and Win). Our goal is to 'democratize' climate change science by allowing anyone to run a global climate model. If you can attach some numbers to these geo-engineering techniques you can study their effects yourself.
For example, to simulate the sun-shade, you can just turn down the sun a few percent with a checkbox and a slider!. Painting roofs would be equivalent to increasing albedo slightly, and I don't think the model would let you pump sulfur into the atmosphere (that is hard-coded, not exposed to the GUI interface), but you can change the amount of all the greenhouse gasses via the UI.
Supercomputers and advanced FORTRAN programmers are no longer necessary to run your own GCM.
Disclaimer: I'm the project developer.
If you'd like to do some of the experiments discussed in the article yourself, the EdGCM project has wrapped a NASA global climate model (GCM) in a GUI (OS X and Win). You can add CO2 and/or turn the sun down by a few percent (to measure solar effects) all with a checkbox and a slider. Supercomputers and advanced FORTRAN programmers are no longer necessary to run your own GCM.
Disclaimer: I'm the project developer.
If you'd like simulate a water world yourself, the EdGCM project has wrapped a NASA global climate model (GCM) in a GUI (OS X and Win). You can add CO2 or turn the sun down by a few percent all with a checkbox and a slider. Supercomputers and advanced FORTRAN programmers are no longer necessary to run your own GCM.
It is a very general GCM so included in the download are paleo-earth configurations. You can run a simulation of the earth from 750 million years ago when it was mostly covered in water (but also very cold) to see one possible scenario. As mentioned above, you can add CO2 and turn up or down the sun or any other GHG to see other scenarios.
Disclaimer: I'm the project developer.
If you'd like to do some of the same experiments that these scientists do, the EdGCM project has wrapped a NASA global climate model (GCM) in a GUI (OS X and Win). You can add CO2 or turn the sun down by a few percent all with a checkbox and a slider. Supercomputers and advanced FORTRAN programmers are no longer necessary to run your own GCM.
For example, our model shows increased snowfall on Greenland (a common skeptic retaliation). This does not mean global warming is not happening, but rather what was predicted: Warmer air can hold more moisture, so there is increased snowfall. The melting on the edges is occurring faster, so overall we have mass loss of the ice cap.
Disclaimer: I'm the project developer.
Disclaimer of course... I work as a programmer in the field. Not a scientist, and not an expert on hurricanes, but here is my take on the article.
It never mentions 'climate change' or 'global warming'. It simply says that hurricanes are "...strongly related to a climate pattern known as the multi-decadal signal". This is neither weather prediction nor making estimates of the effects of climate change. We know that when the Pacific is in an El Nino or La Nina phase and also depending on Atlantic currents that certain global patterns are more likely. Is it a local effect within 10 days to 2 weeks? No, then it isn't a weather forecast. It also has very little to do with GCMs, as you don't need a predictive model to tell you this, we can look at historical trends of hurricanes correlated to ENSO events.
Now, will a global change in climate have an effect on the El Nino / La Nina cycles? Will it change them? Will it change what happens when they occur? Will it affect Atlantic currents day-to-day or these year-long trends that come and go? Will it change the wind patterns? That is an entirely different question and not discussed by me nor in that article.
Note that the article does support my original statement that warmer ocean temperatures are positively correlated to increased hurricane strength, and also that
Hope this helps.