Now scientists from MIT and their colleagues have estimated the lifetime of the solar nebula — a key stage during which much of the
solar system evolution took shape.
The ISCCP dataset quantifies the variations of cloud properties at mesoscale resolution (3 hr, 30 km) covering the whole globe for more than a decade, making it possible to study cloud
system evolution over whole life cycles, watching interactions with the atmospheric general circulation.
This research was funded by: the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) through the
Earth System Evolution Program
Despite important impacts on the distribution of atmospheric heating, moistening, and momentum, nearly all climate models fail to represent convective organization,
while system evolution is not represented at all.
Since completing his PhD on impact cratering and asteroid showers, his research has been oriented towards early
Solar System evolution, meteorite parent body processes, and global changes throughout the Earth's history.
rather than depending on stochastic approaches with all the errors they reproduce, it's better to discover the low dimensional determinism that describes the climatic system, as I have done in my research, and the underlying physics that drive
the system evolution.
The evolution of the system size and vertical extent are used to define five life cycle stages (warm and cold developing, mature, cold and warm dissipating), providing the basis for the composite analysis of
the system evolution.