I cannot complete by the deadline / Are incomplete Work Units useful?
The simple answer is that the deadline is not enforced so work will be accepted after the deadline. Note that Dave Frame (project co-ordinator) has said: Even if people make it half way, we can use their results. Ideally, we want them to make it all the way to 2080, with their own personal planet Earth, but we do understand that that may not always be possible. But for us, the period 1960-2000 is really important because that’s the period when we can test the model you’re running against reliable, global data (data is much sparser before about 1960 – there’s much more data once satellites began keeping an eye on those regions in which people don’t live/ships and planes don’t travel through). So please do continue if you can. The BBC are going to run a show in early summer, but as scientists we’re interested in a much more comprehensive analysis after that, as well. After the BBC series finishes, we’ll keep analysing the data for several years after this (and add new experiments and mod
