Making climate models open source makes them even more useful

Designing climate experiments is all but impossible in the real world. We can’t, for instance, study the effects of clouds by taking away all the clouds for a set period of time and seeing what happens.

MiMA: an open source way to model the climate.

Instead, we have to design our experiments virtually, by developing computer models. Now, a new open-source set of climate models has allowed this research to become more collaborative, efficient and reliable.

Full climate models are designed to be as close to nature as possible. They are representations of the combined knowledge of climate science and are without a doubt the best tools to understand what the future might look like.

Read the piece on The Conversation by a Maritime Continent Research Fellow from the University of Melbourne, Martin Jucker - “Making climate models open source makes them even more useful.”