Sentences with phrase «confirmed by computer models»
As for the shifting braids, the researchers conclude that they result from the motion of as - yet - identified moonlets through the ring — a hypothesis confirmed by computer models — and the occasional influence of Prometheus, a potato - shaped moon that orbits in the gap between the F ring and Saturn's much bigger A ring.
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The direct microscopic modelling of the system, by extensive computer simulations, has confirmed the existence of this surprising regime and other predictions of the theory.
This work is the first to consistently recreate the event by computer modeling, and the first time that the model results have been confirmed by comparison to the climate record, which includes such things as ice core and tree ring data.
One study, from researchers at the GKSS Research Center in Geesthacht, Germany, confirmed «a glitch» in Dr. Mann's work but «found this glitch to be of very minor significance» when applied to some computer - generated models of climate history, according to a statement released by lead author Hans von Storch.
By 1979 the ever more powerful computers had confirmed that it was impossible to construct a model that could mimick the current climate and that did not warm up a few degrees....
«We should not be using public money to pay for faster and faster computers so that increasingly fine - grained climate models can be subjected to ever larger numbers of simulations until we have got the data to test whether the predictions of existing models are confirmed (or not disconfirmed) by the evidence.»