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Japan Buys Supercomputer Just To Predict Torrential Downpours

February 27, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

You know that climate change is a problem when a supercomputer to do short-term prediction of the formation of linear rainbands and the torrential downpours that they cause is 3.4X as powerful as the machines that do the day-to-day weather forecasting in a country. …

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