It remains to be seen whether Kim's field guidance trip to the state - run Hydro - Meteorological Service, reported by state media Tuesday, will lead to more
accurate weather predictions.
(Of course, we all know how
accurate weather predictions are — let alone market predictions!)
The research could also bring in more
accurate weather predictions and improved warnings for sunbathers.
NASA is preparing to launch a duo of cloud - monitoring satellites that could help produce more
accurate weather predictions and improve our understanding of how clouds affect climate.
(Of course, we all know how
accurate weather predictions are — let alone market predictions!)
Accurate weather prediction, difficult as it is, is trivial by comparison.
Reliable and
accurate weather prediction is vitally important in numerous areas of society, particularly agriculture and water management and weather risks are evaluated by a wide range of businesses, including power distributors who make fewer sales during cool summers and more sales during cold winters.
Not exact matches
In a new paper in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, the CSU researchers describe a breakthrough in making
accurate predictions of
weather weeks ahead.
Obtaining
accurate sea surface temperatures is important for a range of applications — from
weather prediction to climate modeling to understanding marine ecosystem fluctuations.
It can also produce high resolution and
accurate wind and thermal distribution
predictions to an actual urban built - up district, using realistic
weather conditions.
Such research eventually could lead to more
accurate weather forecasting and rainfall
predictions, she believes.
«My vision is that, just like you have fairly reasonable
weather predictions today for what is going to happen tomorrow that have evolved to be very
accurate compared to where they started out in the 1940s and»50s, we can have that with fires,» he says.
When compared to standard
weather prediction modeling, Roebber's evolutionary methodology performs particularly well on longer - range forecasts and extreme events, when an
accurate forecast is needed the most.
Getting reasonably
accurate predictions is a matter of choosing the right timescale: days in the case of
weather, decades in the case of climate.
Making
accurate predictions for specific
weather patterns, such as the stubborn August jet stream pattern, at a specific point in time is not possible months in advance.
Natural day - to - day
weather variation is a chaotic system, which makes it very difficult to make
accurate predictions of its behaviour more than the few days out.
Weather prediction depends upon a solid initial condition, and given
accurate observations, we are quite good at predicting
weather out for several days.
Even short - term
weather predictions are never perfectly
accurate because
weather is a complex phenomenon.
But perhaps what I should have said was «reliably
accurate long term
predictions of chaotic phenomena like
weather, politics, or social change».
We believe that more
accurate and reliable
weather predictions will be of tremendous benefit to society, in everything from people being able to make better day - to - day plans to improved agricultural planning to being better able to predict and cope with extreme
weather disasters.
«Since the
weather prediction model simulated the frequency and timing of summer precipitation more reliably than the global model, its daily high temperature
predictions for the future are also believed to be more
accurate,» added co-author Leonard Druyan, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University.
With a large crowd supplying data, the real conditions of an area start to emerge and that information can be mapped and used to make
predictions that can be drilled down to a small area or to provide more
accurate weather forecasts for people living farther away from
weather stations.
But in 1904 another physicist, the Norwegian Vilhelm Bjerknes, had put forth the idea that his «primitive equations» — a set of differential equations providing for a reasonable mathematical description atmospheric flow — could provide the foundation for numerically - based
weather prediction methods that could potentially be much more
accurate than existing methods.
How can we trust the
predictions for the next hundred years, when we can't get tomorrows
weather accurate to a degree?
Engineers rely on
accurate weather and climate
predictions to design roadways, bridges, and other major projects: climate conditions of the future will no longer resemble those of the past.
Getting reasonably
accurate predictions is a matter of choosing the right timescale: days in the case of
weather, decades in the case of climate.
Accurate weather forecasts provide the basis but grid operators, electricity traders and renewable power plant operators themselves now rely on a new industry specialising in
predictions tailored to the sector.