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How supercomputers will unlock more accurate climate modelling

Susanne Baker, TechUK

06 September 2021 • 3 min read

The next generation of supercomputers promise to help address remaining uncertainties in reliable weather and climate predictions, explains TechUK's Susanne Baker

Weather prediction has been a pioneering application of numerical computer simulations since John von Neuman's ‘Meteorology Program' at Princeton in the late 1940s. Together with his assistant, Jule Gregory...

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