Met Office forecasters set for 'billion pound' supercomputer
To create this simulated picture of our weather, the globe is divided into grid squares.
And the ambition, when the new supercomputer is up and running, is to operate at an even sharper resolution, down to a scale of 100m.The Met Office certainly believes it will. There's huge demand for better forecasting - from the military to the power companies to organisers of big outdoor events. There has been a huge improvement in recent years - every passing decade has seen forecasts reach a whole day further into the future.So will the new computing power continue that advance? Penny Endersby prefers not to be make any promises.
The effects of the rise of 1C over the past 150 years are still not fully understood, let alone those of bigger increases to come.
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