In weather forecasting, models assimilate information to constrain the present state in order to allow for
better predictive capacity.
Not exact matches
As the paper says «We suggest that the stadium wave hypothesis holds promise in putting in perspective the numerous observations of climate behavior; offers potential attribution and
predictive capacity; and that through use of its associated proxies, may facilitate investigation of past behavior that may
better inform our view of future behavior.
The only thing that matters in science is
predictive capacity: how
well can a theory predict the evolution of a closed system based on initial conditions, or the closest you can get to that in real life with caveats made based on holes in the system or model.