Sentences with phrase «about computer modelling»

And guess who taught the first climatologists about computer modelling?

It helped to teach people about climate prediction and more generally about computer modelling.

In many fields of science there is much discussion about computer models, withthe tendence for the scientist to defend them against reality..

I would add — Shouldn't we at least test computer models before making claims about computer models and their prediction power?

Also, I bet you a dollar that this study you posted is based on... drum roll please...... Computer model projections!!!!! And you already know what I think about computer models.

And that is my point, has been my point, about computer models from day 1.

Thus, using EdGCM students can obtain a complete and meaningful research experience in which they learn about various climate change issues (global warming, past climates, etc.) while simultaneously learning about computer modeling techniques, Numerous universities, schools and research institutions are employing EdGCM as a means of lowering the barriers to participation in climate change and climate modeling science.

We see almost no use in education of what is great and unique about computer modeling and computer thinking.

Not exact matches

Before making your decision, there's one thing you should know about this computer: It's not the newest model of MacBook.

Computer models only needed about 100 likes to outperform an average human judge in their sample.

Roberts analyzes the destructive nature of anger that Paul warned about using metaphors from psychology and computer language to clarify anger's positive and negative qualities, and to present a Christian model of how to master its destructive potential.

When Pardington still worked for IBM, one of the company's philosophies was that if it was going to introduce a new computer model the new version had to have something better about it.

He has smart ideas about fixing tax assessments using computer modeling and making Long Island more affordable and exciting for young residents.

The enormous range of scales (stars, the building blocks of galaxies, are each about one trillion times smaller in mass than the galaxy they make up), as well as the complex physics involved, presents a formidable challenge for any computer model.

Using observational data and computer modeling, the researchers found that for theropods weighing under 36 kg (about 80 pounds) bony cranial ornamentation did not evolve.

To find out more about how meteorologists use forecasting models to get ahead of Mother Nature as well as the limitations of this technology, Scientific American spoke with Thomas Else, chief meteorologist and director of meteorological services and computer programming for Hackettstown, N.J. - based weather forecasting consulting firm Weather Works LLC.

After plugging all this information into computer models, they found that access to scientific information has a minimal effect on the public's opinion about climate change, while weather extremes have no noticeable effect whatsoever (which slightly contrasts with a 2011 study).

Using HydroSED 2D, a computer modeling system developed at the University of Illinois, they incorporated two - dimensional flow modeling, soil characteristics and information about vegetation to analyze the vulnerability of the landscape compared with observed impacts.

«Social research has a history of using both small - scale experiments and computer models to explore questions about human behavior — but there are very few examples of how to use these two techniques in concert,» says William Rand, a computer scientist and assistant professor of business management in NC State's Poole College of Management who is co-lead author of a paper describing the work.

Previous estimates, Schultz said, were based solely on computer models and yielded a size estimate of only about 50 miles in diameter.

EPRI's conclusions about energy technology gains were fed into a second computer model to assess the costs of stripping 80 percent of 1990 - level carbon emissions out of the electricity sector by 2050, approximating the goal of the House - passed climate bill.

The scientists, in collaboration with IBM, are launching the effort by building a computer model of the neocortical column of a rat, a single circuit of about 10,000 cells, each of which is capable of thousands of connections.

By 1960, computer researchers were trying to model Hebb's ideas about learning and memory.

Penn State climate modeler Michael Mann talks about what computer models can tell us — and what they don't need to.

Using publically available data about wind speed and water vapor flux from real - world atmospheric rivers over the Atlantic, the scientists created a computer model consisting of thousands of moving virtual air particles and found a close match between the complex swirls — the Lagrangian coherent structures — made by the air particles and the patterns made by the real atmospheric rivers.

In a way, it is like answering questions about airplane design by studying a model airplane in a wind tunnel — solving problems with a physical simulation rather than a digital computer.

NCAR's research is paid for by the National Science Foundation, and Busalacchi predicted that future research will shift toward more precise computer modeling and include more interdisciplinary research about the risks and the adaptation that is, or is not, happening along coastlines.

Computer models and landslide simulators — chutelike contraptions into which scientists unleash torrents of mud, water and debris — are yielding new clues about the complex factors that contribute to slope collapse.

Using numerical models and computer simulations, the researchers show how spinning particles, pushed about by the fluid flows created as each particle spins, can arrange themselves into an array of emergent macro-scale patterns.

To find out why, computational biologists came up with a computer model to predict how microbial metabolism and cellular composition change as cell size varies, using details about how much space a bacterium needs for its components — DNA, proteins, and the molecular factories called ribosomes — to function.

Data about Los Altos Hills was fed to a computational model developed by study co-author Thomas Hamacher, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at TUM.

Even as Alvarez's computer model offered a glimpse into the universe's infancy, it sowed confusion about what happened next.

A new study using an advanced computer model casts doubt on previously held theories about the Yellowstone supervolcano's origins, adding to the mystery of Yellowstone's formation.

The newly recovered descriptions could provide valuable perspective about past conditions and possibly help scientists hone computer models that predict changes in the region's climate.

Slow airline boarding annoyed Jason Steffen, but rather than complain about it, like most of us would, the Fermilab astrophysicist took to his computer and began writing algorithms to model potential solutions.

The scientists were able to recreate the impact conditions in computer models in order to learn more about the Chelyabinsk meteorite as well as how meteorites penetrate porous targets in general.

«Our virtual human model was generated from more than one hundred 3D scans and contains statistical knowledge about human body shape and movement,» says Professor Dr. Mario Botsch, head of the Computer Graphics and Geometry Processing research group and one of the coordinators of the ICSpace project.

Using advanced computer models, neuroscience researchers at the University of Copenhagen have gained new knowledge about the complex processes that cause Parkinson's disease.

They test their hypotheses about the universe by developing mathematical models that describe the underlying complex physical processes and run them on high - performance computers trying to reproduce the evolution of the Universe over billions of years.

The research team used mathematical analysis and a computer simulation model to represent the evolution of an idealised town of about 200,000 inhabitants.

The researchers plugged this information into a computer model to find out the effect on the climate of increasing tree cover and diminishing grassland and found that it led to a global temperature increase of about 0.1 °C (Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1029 / 2010gl043985).

At Siemens Corporate Technology, mathematicians (who also constitute about 8 % of degree holders) tackle risk through computer modelling, according to Albert Gilg, Competence Center department head at Siemens in Munich.

Computer models showed that each was about 30 times as massive as our sun.

For a century, psychologists and neurologists have recorded people's behaviour, invented abstract computer models of mental processes and chopped up dead brains in their quest for clues about the nature of consciousness.

Limited by the era's computers and understanding of physics, Wilson's model relied on simplifications — such as the star being a perfect sphere — and incorrect assumptions about the behavior of very dense matter and how neutrinos move from the core's interior to the crucial outer parts where the heating of the shock wave occurs.

«What we did in this paper is engineer our sensor to be about 15 times better than a previous version, and then compared it against a blood biomarker in a mouse model of ovarian cancer to show that we could beat it,» says Sangeeta Bhatia, the John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, a member of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, and the senior author of the study.

«Then I take an educated guess about what the cell might be doing internally and I write a computer model to simulate it,» she says.

Still, the increase is about what's predicted by computer models of global climate.

And these new computers are pushing the old models out the door at a rapid pace: U.S. residential and business users scrap about 133,000 PCs daily.

But the US Department of Energy — whose research facilities sustained an estimated $ 1 million of damage in the earthquake — concluded that it actually enhanced the site's suitability, because seismologists were able to verify computer models about the seismological stability of the mountain and its environs they had generated from historical data.