Sentences with phrase «make numerical predictions»

The test of any new scientific theory is the ability to make numerical predictions which prove to be correct on independent assessment.

Not exact matches

Stumm said the study would include «putting a network of outpost wells, filling in gaps in information, and using the information in a numerical model to make predictions for management.

Although meteorologists now rely heavily on computer models (numerical weather prediction), it is still relatively common to use techniques and conceptual models that were developed before computers were powerful enough to make predictions accurately or efficiently.

By its very nature, a model is a simplification of reality, so the final step when we consider predictions made by numerical models is to assess the uncertainty in our predictions.

But all of the inputs are approximations (parameter estimates, equations, numerical methods), and the output to date shows that they have made bad predictions about «out of sample» data — the trend since they were published.

• has no numbered equations, and thus • has no mathematical deductions, and moreover, • has no numerical computations, and in consequence • makes no quantitative predictions, and finally • inexplicably ignores (without comment!)

«The temperature graphs are made from numerical weather prediction (NWP) «analysis» data.

All our forecasts and reanalyses use a numerical model to make a prediction.

This is what makes paleoreconstructions possible, and what makes it possible to initialize global numerical weather prediction models with so few observations.)