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Climate forecasting: Build high-resolution global climate models

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International supercomputing centres dedicated to climate prediction are needed to reduce uncertainties in global warming, says Tim Palmer.

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  1. Tim Palmer is a Royal Society research professor of climate physics and co-director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Modelling and Predicting Climate at the University of Oxford, UK.,

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