Home computers to help scientists assess climate role in UK's wet winter

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Spare computer time lent to researchers at Oxford University will allow intensive climate modelling of 2013-14 conditions

Citizen scientists can help to solve a critical question raised by England's wettest winter in at least 250 years: was climate change to blame? Spare home computer time lent to researchers at the University...

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