Clark. Do you have any idea what parameters would be needed to be given to a distributed computing model of the atmosphere? Is there some public access resource to get all of the data points required?

If SETI at home is any indication, I believe it's completely feasible that we could actually do a 3 dimensional highly-complex model and have it handed out to millions of eager users...

Even if it's just hundreds-of-thousands of folks willing to knock out a few packets, I believe it's an idea whose time has come...