The winning projects will examine the impact of climate change on public health, enable more accurate rainfall predictions in Africa, and determine the role of atmospheric aerosols in climate change.

At a Glance

The winners were chosen from over 70 applications for their potential to make a significant contribution to understanding of climate change impacts and potential solutions.The winners will receive access to the company's technology and data for their projects.

The International Foundation has awarded three groups of scientists working at the forefront of climate change and environmental research access to the company's technology and data for their projects.

The winners, announced this week, were chosen from over 70 applications for their potential to make a significant contribution to understanding of climate change impacts and potential solutions.

As our planet faces the mounting impacts of climate change, scientists are on the front lines of understanding complex consequences and developing solutions. Common bottlenecks facing scientists conducting foundational research include limited access to weather data, and insufficient computing power and data storage capacity to accurately simulate the impacts of climate change.

Winners will receive crowdsourced supercomputing power from ,weather data from , and to examine the impactof climate change on public health, enable more accurate rainfall predictions in Africa, and determine the role of atmospheric aerosols including dust and air pollutants in climate change.

The winners are:

Emory University, USA, for a project the impact of climate change on public health. The project will examine the impact of climate change on temperature and air pollution at local levels, helping researchers understand the impact of a changing climate on human health.

Far Eastern Federal University, Russia, for a project studying the impact of atmospheric aerosols on climate change. Atmospheric aerosols, such as dust, smoke and pollution, both absorb and reflect sunlight in the atmosphere, and represent the greatest area of uncertainty in climate science today, according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This project aims to determine how super-micron particles (6 to 12 micrometers in diameter) interact with sunlight and how they contribute to atmospheric temperatures, information that will improve the accuracy of climate models.

Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, for a rainfall modeling in Africa. In Africa, agriculture relies heavily on localized rainfall, which is difficult to predict. In collaboration with the Trans-African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory, researchers will simulate rainfall on the continent – information that could help farmers be more resilient, among other weather and hydrology applications.