While several orders of magnitude increase in compute power can allow better representation of things like clouds and therefore better climate projections, I don't think most climate scientists see a transition to quantum computing as leading to a quantum leap in physical understanding of the climate system.
In other words, I would be surprised if a three-order-of-magnitude (i.e., 1000x) increase in computing capability would reduce uncertainties by more than a factor of two. So, helpful, but perhaps not a game changer. _______________ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 [email protected] http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab @kencaldeira *Our YouTube videos* The Great Climate Experiment: How far can we push the planet?<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce2OWROToAI> Special AGU lecture: Ocean Aciditication: Adaptive Challenge or Extinction Threat? <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfz2l29aX9c> More videos <http://www.youtube.com/user/CarnegieGlobEcology/videos> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 8:28 PM, Dr D <[email protected]> wrote: > Can someone referred me to a paper that explores whether quantum computing > will really improve climate modeling in general and geoengineering effects > in particular? I thought I had read that better supercomputers will help > but that quantum computing does not add greatly to accuracy of climate > modeling. Thanks! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "geoengineering" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/geoengineering/-/PN81Vt45EAAJ. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en.
