Sentences with phrase «many modelers»

AIR Worldwide, the other large disaster modeler, is due to release its own initial estimate over the next day.

Develop modeling instincts so modelers know what assumptions are reasonable and likely to result in dependable results, and what parameter ranges are realistic to account for invariable deviations of reality from models.

«Catastrophe modeler AIR Worldwide expects industry insured losses of $ 20 - $ 65 [billion]... based on the track as of Friday evening, and our sense is losses could be at the lower end of the range as the storm weakened faster than expected.»

They note past ages that have been equally warm or warmer without human influence, to say nothing of repeating patterns of climate change like ice ages (though I've met one of James Hansen's computer modelers who told me with sincere conviction that there would not be another ice age).

In contemplating the revolution needed to move toward an ecologically sustainable society, global modelers speak of information as the key to the transformation.

As a former home re modeler, I have to say you did a very impressive job.

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Eventually, she'd like to strike out on her own and become an independent investigator, continuing to study HIV transmission while helping mathematical modelers and epidemiologists cooperate better.

Climate modelers do not include effects on land - based ice in these regions because they can not reduce them to equations, such as x amount of extra heat equals y amount of melting.

Gavin Schmidt, a climate scientist and modeler at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said this sort of research is useful for modelers, who can take these results and see whether they show up when they run their models.

So modelers have had to come up with ways to get these centimeter - sized clumps to cluster together into the larger objects that eventually become comets.

Modelers approximate these components using simplified representations called parameterizations.

Modelers should also try to calibrate agents» behaviors by using studies of human psychology.

«We may have to wait 20 or 30 years before the data set in the 21st century is good enough to pin down sensitivity,» says climate modeler Gavin Schmidt of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS).

«If CO2 leaked from storage and reached the seafloor, then the environmental impact will be measurable, but very restricted in area and not catastrophic,» said Jerry Blackford, a marine system modeler at Plymouth Marine Laboratory and author of the paper, published yesterday in Nature Climate Change.

«There is no way that the models are able to directly simulate these things,» says climate modeler Stephen Zebiak of Columbia University.

In trying to understand how comets, asteroids, and planets were built from microscopic pieces of dust whirling around the protoplanetary disk, modelers have a problem they call the «aggregation barrier.»

If agent - based modelers have a top priority, it's to make the simulations easier to build, run, and use — not least because that would make them more accessible to real - world decision - makers.

Instead, most modelers accommodate the inevitable uncertainties by averaging over many runs of each scenario and displaying a likely range of outcomes, much like landfall forecasts for hurricanes.

Second, Barrett says, the modelers should not just slap the model together and see whether the final results make sense.

When modelers want to predict the future movement of a particular species, they first establish a set of conditions — in terms of climate, soil quality and other variables — under which that species is likely to thrive.

«We're trying to help patients who are the most likely to be over-diagnosed to recognize it and not be afraid to be more conservative in their treatment,» said Etzioni, a biostatistician, cancer modeler and member of the Hutch's Public Health Sciences Division.

Those modelers had created 76,600 models and run about 479,000 different simulations on them.

However, every modeler using rule - based modeling faced a complication.

«As many modelers as you have, you'll have that number of estimates,» he said.

It's for this reason that it's important to understand the differences in responses between geoengineering experiments, said Ben Kravitz, a climate modeler at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory who helps run the international Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project.

«Before, only programmers or experienced modelers could create rule - based models to describe details of molecular interactions,» says Loew.

Magma modelers may tap into geochemistry if they want to study the gases that exsolve from magma as it nears surface pressure.

Cell biology models quickly get so unwieldy that only an experienced modeler or programmer can handle them.

Climate modelers, in contrast, do not attempt to predict weather or track individual storms years into the future.

Some flights will try to stay on a particular line of latitude or longitude, no matter what the clouds and smoke are doing that day, because climate modelers need data collected along a transect.

On a basic level, global climate models are similar to today's weather forecasting tools, explains Jerry Meehl, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, and a leading climate modeler.

Susini, a wax modeler, was renowned for his accuracy and attention to anatomical details.

Their refined results enabled modelers to produce earthquake models that are more consistent with observed subsidence measurements seen in today's instrumented earthquakes.

«Time and again, the models are conservative, and they're underestimating the magnitude of change,» says Robert DeConto, an ice sheet modeler at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Nitrogenase, which takes nitrogen in the air and converts it to a biologically useful form by tacking on hydrogens, is among the modelers» most hotly pursued prizes.

Padgett notes, «Previous investigations were able to provide estimates of subsidence with large errors, which are only so helpful to the modelers.»

«These strategies range from lighter colored roofs or road surfaces» that could reflect sunlight, cooling cities, «to something as controversial as putting particles high in the stratosphere,» explains Ken Caldeira, a climate modeler at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University.

Some modelers find such scenarios unnecessarily complex.

But he questions how to apply it to the future, because modelers have trouble making models sophisticated enough to reproduce such a signal.

In particular, the modelers could now reproduce in detail the pattern of warming, changes in rainfall, etc. actually observed in different regions of the world over the past century.

However, the modelers had to make many arbitrary assumptions about clouds and the like, and reputable scientists disputed the reliability of the results.

Andrew Monaghan, a modeler at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, says his team hasn't updated the Zika forecast it did in 2016, but suggests that next year the virus may transmit locally in U.S. locales that now have local dengue transmission.

The discovery of the ammonia wave helps resolve a mystery that has persisted since the Galileo probe fell into a hot spot in 1995, and it could help modelers understand the deeper dynamics of the atmosphere.

So here's a ScienceInsider shoutout to some modelers who appear to have gotten it right: the meteorologists and entomologists who joined forces last May and predicted where local transmission of Zika in the continental United States was most likely to occur.

Penn State climate modeler Michael Mann talks about what computer models can tell us — and what they don't need to.

«Nobody's evaluated what these assumptions mean at the regional scale,» says Ben Poulter, a carbon cycle modeler at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and a leader of the project.

«Models need different parameters; sometimes we» — theorists and modelers — «are aware of aspects they haven't discovered.»

The idea is the brainchild of Leonard Ornstein, a cell biologist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, who partnered with climate modelers David Rind and Igor Aleinov of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, all in New York City.

Keith, who has since helped launch a direct air capture company, says the modelers seized on BECCS because it was one of the few ways to simulate negative emissions — and negative emissions were one of the few ways to try to keep warming below 2 °C.