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Rotman 2014 Annual Conference: Knowledge and Models in Climate Science
CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION The Rotman Institute of Philosophy second annual conference, Knowledge and Models in Climate Science: Philosophical, Historical, and Scientific Perspectives, took place on Oct. 24-26, 2014. The conference brought together researchers to discuss the use of models in understanding the climate from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Models and computer simulations are essential not […]
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Leonard Smith and Erica Thompson: Doing Science in the Dark: The Challenges of Climate-Like Science
Leonard Smith and Erica Thompson: Doing Science in the Dark: The Challenges of Climate-Like Science
ABSTRACT Climate prediction and weather prediction are very different: due to constant refinements and new techniques, the life time of a climate model is much less than the forecast we ask it to make, whereas the same weather model can be used to forecast tomorrow’s weather, day after day, for months if not years — […]