Sentences with phrase «useful predictions for the future»

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He hopes the model will be useful for future predictions along these lines, such as looking at pathways of disease progression.

Similarly, it can be useful to benchmark climate models against the observed record to establish some sort of reasonable initial state for future predictions.

Scenarios are not predictions of what will happen, but they can be useful tools for researching a wide range of «what if» questions about what the world might be like in the future.

However, to understand the large scale patterns in climate and their changes and drivers, climate models are not only useful, but increasingly necessary to make skillful predictions for the future.

For a useful critique of model - starting - points which bear no relation to the real - world, see: D. Koutsoyiannis et al (2008) «On the credibility of climate predictions» in Hydrological Sciences 53 (4) August 2008 671-684, who conclude that the GCM models defy normal assessments of validity and should not be relied upon to predict future climate change.

«There are simply too many unknowns at present to say that this paper makes a prediction that is useful for future flooding risks,» Severinghaus said.

f) Useful analytical tools for use in Climate Science yet unfit for predictions of the future climate?

These models can now simulate the last hundred years quite well, and thus are useful for broadscale predictions of the future.»