Met Office 'needs New Supercomputers'

[Aaron]

According to MPs

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17100224

[The PIT]

Well the Business case will be based on Global warming and the risk to the UK infrastructure and Business which should send it a long way to towards being approved.

Perhaps they should also look into a seti approach as well. Plenty of computers out there.

[Snowangel-MK]

Met Office 'needs New Supercomputers'

really....what's wrong with the old ones ?

.....or the 'phone a friend' system .....

[johnholmes]

Met Office 'needs New Supercomputers'

really....what's wrong with the old ones ?

.....or the 'phone a friend' system .....

I love the 2nd one which I had not seen before

send it to them in an e mail and see if they have a sense of humour?

[Methuselah]

Ever since Captain FitzRoy first invented numerical weather-forecasting, the limitations in accuracy have been due to lack of computing power. So surely, subject to the Law of Diminishing Returns, better computers will yield better forecasts - and models?