Sentences with phrase «accept predictions of models»

Not exact matches

This is in line with the predictions of the Standard Model, the currently accepted theory of matter.

Last year's melt isn't some death - blow to the idea of modeling, particularly because there is an accepted hypothesis (the pro-icemelt weather conditions) which supplements the model predictions to explain what we observed.

I should add that I do see the value of models but can not accept without comment the post's conclusion ``... we need to let science run its course and let previous model - based predictions of somewhere between «2040 and 2100 ″ stand.»

I believe model predictions have been the subject of bet challenges before (and no one has accepted one to my knowledge so why would this group.)

Levine, R.C., Turner, A.G., Marathayil, D. and Martin, G.M. (accepted Dec 2012), The role of northern Arabian Sea surface temperature biases in CMIP5 model simulations and future predictions of Indian summer monsoon rainfall, in press, Climate Dynamics., DOI 10.1007 / s00382 -012-1656-x link

The 2001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report that governments accept as certain predictions of future weather says, «In climate research and modeling, we should recognize that we are dealing with a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore that the long - term prediction of future climate states is not possible.»

What many of us have trouble accepting are the results of model «experiments» as true and accurate predictions of the future.

Yes, it is possible that natural variability could cause actual temperatures to fall outside the range of model predictions without invalidating the models, but I'm not yet ready to accept model outputs under these conditions.

Previous apparent trends (eg 1880 - 1910, 1910 - 1940) had all abruptly ended, there was no reason to assume things would be different in 1988 - unless you accept the model's prediction, of course... which is precisely the point.

Quite egalitarian, so in fact contrarians, scientists who hold ideas outside of the mainstream can prosper provided their ideas have some factual basis and use the scientific method (Scientific method: based on existing obervations pose an hypothesis; using new observations or experiments, test the predictions of that hypothesis; on the basis of the new data either reject the hypothesis or modify it to fit the better understanding, or accept that the initial hypothesis was right at which point it becomes a «theory» or explanatory model).

In the disciplines where I work, the model has to make reliable predictions for all key variables of that system for at least 95 % of the time the system is operational for someone to accept that as a good model for that system.