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Tag Archives: Modelling

Chew Bahir on the border of Kenya and Ethiopia is a tough and merciless...
Climate, Culture, Earth, Land, People

Did the mega-lakes of Ethiopia make us human?

Author Markus L Fischer Date January 15, 2019
Markus L Fischer
Tagged Climate, Climate change, landscapes, Modelling, Precipitation | Leave a comment |
Climate, Outreach, Systems

Spinning up the past, present and future climate

Author Ingjald Pilskog Date May 18, 2016
Ingjald Pilskog
Tagged Climate, Climate Models, Modelling, science communication | Leave a comment |
Satellite data is revolutionising the way we look at our planet. From tracking deforestation...
Climate, Health, Land, Life, People

Certainly uncertain! Do satellites help to monitor food security in Africa?

Author Robert Luetkemeier Date April 22, 2016
Robert Luetkemeier
Tagged East Africa Summer School, Food Security, Modelling, Rainfall Uncertainty, Remote Sensing, Sub-Saharan Africa | Leave a comment |
  Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing society today. To understand...
Climate, Outreach, Sea, Society

Do you want to become a climate researcher?

Author Johanna Englhardt Date April 8, 2016
Johanna Englhardt
Tagged Climate, East Africa Summer School, history, Modelling, science communication | Leave a comment |
The quote “all models are wrong, but some are useful”  by Box and Draper...
Physics, Systems

In the climate model jungle

Author Annemarie Eckes Date April 13, 2015
Annemarie Eckes
Tagged AOGCM, Climate Models, climatesnack, EBM, EMIC, ESM, Global warming, Modelling | Leave a comment |
Making a timely weather forecast, or running a high-resolution global climate model, requires the...
Air, Systems

Supercomputer says no: gridding the Earth in next-generation weather and climate models

Author Andrew McRae Date February 10, 2014
Andrew McRae
Tagged Climate Models, Modelling, Weather | 2 Comments |
Quite often people ask me about my field of study in parties or activity...
Land, Sea, Systems

Hydrology and hydrological model

Author Lu Li Date January 29, 2014
Lu Li
Tagged climatesnack, Flood, Global warming, hydrologic cycle, hydrological model, hydrology, Modelling, Precipitation, Water cycle, watershed | 1 Comment |
Many PhD researchers use climate models with little thought of how they were developed....
Air, People, Systems

A History of Climate Models

Author Amee O'Callaghan Date January 22, 2014
Amee O'Callaghan
Tagged Climate, Climate Models, computers, forecasting, history, Modelling, numerical method, numerical scheme, Weather, weather prediction | 5 Comments |
A big winter storm is brewing in the North Atlantic. Meteorologists on TV exclaim...
Sea

The making of an ocean wave (forecast)

Author Johannes Röhrs Date October 11, 2013
Johannes Röhrs
Tagged Flood, Modelling, Nordic Seas, Numerical wave prediction, Storm surge, Surface gravity waves, Swell forecast, Wave, Wave forecast, Wave model, Waves, Wind wave, Wind wave model | 4 Comments |
This snack is hopefully the first in a series  discussing the uncertainties and errors...
Systems

Small talk – the model way

Author Aleksi Nummelin Date May 17, 2013
Aleksi Nummelin
Tagged Error, Modelling, Uncertainty | 1 Comment |
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