UK Met Office: Lack of computing power ‘hindering weather forecasting’ October 27, 2011Posted by honestclimate in Discussions.
Tags: climate change, global warming, Piers Corbyn, uk met office
Lack of computing power ‘hindering weather forecasting’
Hmm, the UK Met Office has a £30 million Super Computer (with a massive carbon bigfoot) and they claim that a lack of computing power is ‘hindering weather forecasting’. Garbage in, Garbage out boys! They’ll just get to the wrong forecast even faster he he he.
Maybe Piers Corbyn, the man who repeatedly beats the Met Office at its own game, can donate his laptop to the Met Office. He clearly beats them hands down when it comes to weather forecasting and his laptop has a much smaller carbon footprint too!
Via the BBC, 26 October 2011
A lack of computing power is limiting the improvements the Met Office can make to the accuracy of its weather forecasts, MPs have been told.
Prof Paul Hardaker, head of the Royal Meteorological Society, was speaking to the Commons science committee.
He said more supercomputers were needed to carry out complex calculations, but finding the money was “an issue”.
Via The Telegraph, 27 Aug 2009
Here is a rundown of the Met Office super computer by numbers:
:: The £30 million computer – more powerful than 100,000 standard PCs – was installed in the Met Office’s new £80 million headquarters in May.
:: It is capable of 1,000 billion calculations every second to feed data to 400 scientists.
:: The computer uses 1.2 megawatts of energy to run – enough to power a small town.