Sentences with phrase «of weather model»

A climate model should NOT be considered an extension of a weather model.

About 1980ish, some old ideas like the greenhouse effect were brought out of mothballs and re-examined with new tools and techniques; simultaneously several researchers and theoreticians released their notes, published, or otherwise got together and there was a surprising consilience and not a small amount of mixing with old school hippy ecologism on some of the topics that became the roots of Climate Change science (before it was called Global Warming); innovations in mathematics were also applied to climate thought; supercomputers (though «disappointing» on weather forecasting) allowed demonstration of plausibility of runaway climate effects, comparison of scales of effects, and the possibility of climate models combined with a good understanding of the limits of predictive power of weather models.

The differences are (1) that you can not afford spatio - temporal resolution of weather models to simulate thousand years forward, and (2) in weather model you don't care if your prediction will blow up in 100 years yielding Venus condition or Ice Ball, you just stop the computer after a week of simulated time, and start over.

To my knowledge, nobody is clamoring for V&V of weather models; why not?

For the atmospheric part of climate models, this engineering aspect of weather models is discussed in depth in Pielke (2013a).

I presume there is no «back testing» of weather models (or is there?).

A majority of weather models bring Sandy's path south of New York City and Long Island.

In spite of the inability of weather models to forecast more than about 10 days ahead, the climate modelers have deluded themselves, their employers, the grant giving agencies, the politicians and the general public into believing that they could build climate models capable of accurately forecasting global temperatures for decades and centuries to come.

Not exact matches

Altering their business model will require CE retailers to weather a dip in profits and / or a slimming of their margins.

QNX, which made more than 60 % of the core software inside the world's car infotainment systems in 2011, has partnered with The Weather Network to send location - based weather data to drivers, and the intelligent dashboard system in many of Nissan's 2013 models, for instance, will feed drivers real - time local fuel prices, flight - status information, and points of interest supplied by Google.

Tesla announced on Thursday that it was voluntarily recalling 123,000 of its Model S vehicles because corrosion under limited circumstances in cold weather could cause the power - steering assembly to fail.

The new software targets data - intensive applications requiring high - speed access to massive volumes of information generated by countless devices, sensors, business processes, and social networks; examples include seismic data processing, risk management and financial analysis, weather modeling, and scientific research.

There is a very remote chance it will travel into the Gulf of Mexico, which would have huge implications for the region's offshore production — most weather models have the hurricane shifting north up along the East Coast.

However, the time and weather displays were nixed on this model, and Nest says it supports only 85 percent of home HVAC systems compared to the more expensive model's 95 percent.

Leave it to our six - time SI Swimsuit model to find a way to bring the vibrant colors of Miami (her current home) to life, even with colder weather in mind.

We've analyzed over ten years of public betting percentages, betting volume, steam moves, injury news and weather updates to develop a model that has been very accurate in predicting upcoming line moves.

On another note, for summer wearing in warm climates, Baby K'Tan also offers an even more flexible model called the «Breeze», where half of the loop is made of a cool easy - breathing mesh fabric, and the other half is made of cotton, allowing you to turn the loops depending on the weather conditions!

The fairness of mutuality and the inherent strength of our business models position us as the providers best placed to weather this storm.

The modeling helps scientists deduce important pieces of information for space weather forecasting — in this case, for the first time, the density of the plasma around the shock, in addition to the speed and strength of the energized particles.

Armed with their model, the researchers want to identify and understand deficiencies in state - of - the - art numerical weather models that prevent them from predicting weather on these subseasonal time scales.

«It's impressive, considering that current state - of - the - art numerical weather models, such as NOA's Global Forecast System, or the European Centre for Medium - Range Weather Forecasts» operational model, are only skillful up to one to two weeks in advance,» says paper co-author Cory Baggett, a postdoctoral researcher in the Barnes and Maloney labs.

Regardless of what climate models find, investigating these long - distance links in weather could also pay off by improving risk prediction and forecasts.

Benjamin «Benjy» Firester, 18, of New York City, won the top award of $ 250,000 for developing a mathematical model that uses disease data to predict how weather patterns could spread spores of late blight fungus, which caused the Irish Potato Famine.

They've created an empirical model fed by careful analysis of 37 years of historical weather data.

Huss gathered more than 100 years of field measurements, aerial photographs, and local weather logs pertaining to 30 large Swiss glaciers to build computer models of each, identifying fast melt in the 1940s and in the past couple of decades.

Wind and wave energy would power the resort, and the guest rooms, modeled on barnacles clinging to the side of a ship, would have balconies that retract during bad weather.

Working has greatly slowed down my progress as well: I'm currently working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as part of a team trying to predict snowfall rates from satellite and weather forecast model data.

Pacella, who was lead author on the study, used the detailed data he collected to create a model to estimate the daily carbonate chemistry weather during the summer dry season back to the year 1765, and also projected conditions ahead to 2100 altering the amount of anthropogenic carbon in the system.

While the trends associated with climate change — hotter days, heavier rainfall and a greater number of extreme weather events — are present in the models, for many crops in Africa and Asia it's not clear how extensive the effects will be.

«I had been watching several weather models for several days which had been indicating this area would have an environment capable of supporting supercells, the type of storm responsible for tornadoes,» he says.

To find out more about how meteorologists use forecasting models to get ahead of Mother Nature as well as the limitations of this technology, Scientific American spoke with Thomas Else, chief meteorologist and director of meteorological services and computer programming for Hackettstown, N.J. - based weather forecasting consulting firm Weather Works LLC.

Whether it can be relied upon by government and if the details of collecting and processing it are disclosed «and documented with enough detail» to reliably capture new science for weather and climate models will be important.

The authors speak of new, higher - resolution weather models that use horizontal grids.

Using a 3D atmospheric model, the researchers separated the effect of the chemicals from those of weather and volcanic emissions, which can also destroy ozone.

They also used a physically based computer model of the hydrologic cycle, which takes daily weather observations and computes the snow accumulation, melting, and runoff to estimate the total snowpack in the western U.S.

Now Dorian Abbot and Raymond Pierrehumbert of the University of Chicago have used climate models to study how dust from volcanoes and the weathering of rocks would affect the thaw.

The agency would also cut $ 5 million from its next - generation weather model, slowing «the transition of advanced modeling research into operations.»

When the weather - based model developed at Rothamsted Research was used to predict how climate change may affect the wheat crops, it was predicted that wheat flowering dates will generally be earlier and the incidence of the ear blight disease on the wheat crops will substantially increase.

[The weather] information's based on computer models out of America, which is sort of marginal value, and they don't have any local information.

This weather - based model was then used to predict the impact on severity of the disease of future weather scenarios for the period from 2020 to 2050.

To see whether this increase in crops has influenced the region's unusual weather, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge used computers to model five different 30 - year climate simulations, based on data from 1982 to 2011.

He had set up a number of weather stations on the ridge after his first visit in the 1990s, and these indicated that the area was steadily approaching the «tipping point» established by his models.

Other crowdsourced projects include labeling aerial photos of Mongolia in a quest to find Genghis Khan's tomb and improving climate models by poring over World War I ship logs for weather information.

The research, funded by the Medical Research Council, involved creating the first global model of how mortality rates change with hot or cold weather.

They said the real strength of the Jacobson study — now in press at the Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres — is that it relies on a new computer model of climate, air pollution and weather that accounts for several different ways black carbon influences the environment.

It's also useful in cosmology and charting the far reaches of the Milky Way, weather prediction and climate change modeling or even aerial reconnaissance missions for national defense.

A main obstacle to bringing this kind of powerful climate modelling into standard weather forecasts is computing power.

To determine whether declining pollutants deserve credit for the recovery, the researchers used a 3D atmospheric model to separate the effects of the chemicals from those of weather, which can affect ozone loss through winds and temperature, and volcanic eruptions, which deplete ozone by pumping sulfate particles into the upper atmosphere.

There are many earlier and later references that document over three decades of ever more sophisticated inclusion of clouds in weather and climate models.

This finding was reinforced by computer models of the general circulation of the atmosphere, the fruit of a long effort to learn how to predict (and perhaps even deliberately change) the weather.