Many economic sectors routinely use weather and climate predictions to make critical business decisions. Anticipated climatic changes will have real impacts on the natural environment as well as on human-made infrastructure and their ability to contribute to economic activity and quality of life. Governments, the private sector, and citizens face the full spectrum of direct and indirect costs accrued from increasing environmental damage and disruption.

Through in-depth research and interviews, this article highlights the substantial business value IBM’s HPC portfolio delivers to the weather forecasting and climate modeling marketplace. Over the last decade, IBM HPC solutions have been used extensively to advance the reliability, accuracy, and length of weather, ocean, seasonal, and climatic predictions by permitting increased resolutions and more complex models.