In addition, since fire is a finer-grained and faster-moving phenomenon than weather, a finer grid is used for the fire model than for the atmospheric model each grid square is a few metres, rather than a few tens of metres, across.
Jon Reisner and Rod Linn at the Los Alamos National Laboratory have also devised a coupled fire-forecasting model, which runs on a supercomputer called Nirvana Blue.
Weill, who built the company in a series of acquisitions starting in the late 1980s, when he rescued a little Baltimore commercial credit firm, said the financial conglomerate model now under fire at Citi and elsewhere is a solid model and worth fighting for.
"I am wary of a plane model that has fire problems and leaks fuel, " said Burns, a project manager who takes more than 50 trips a year.
Mr. Ng's business model is under fire by more than a dozen aggressive new competitors, says Vienna Lee of Squarefoot.com.hk, which runs a popular local search engine for these apartments.
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"I am wary of a plane model that has fire problems and leaks fuel, " said Atlanta-based businessman Bobby Burns, a project manager who takes more than 50 trips a year.
But the current model of the fire service is over 50 years old and it's hard to argue the need for two stations which are just over one mile apart - at Matfield and Paddock Wood.
NCAR, heat and moisture figures from the fire are also fed back into the corresponding grid squares of the weather model, to simulate the way in which the fire, in turn, affects the weather.
Fire forecasters do the same, but as well as simulating the goings-on in the atmosphere, they also add a second numerical model to simulate the fire on the ground.
The AK-47, for example, is widely available to private citizens around the U.S. as a semi-automatic version (firing one shot each time the trigger is pulled), but the military grade fully automatic (continuous fire while the trigger is depressed) model is illegal almost everywhere.
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The wiggle rooms had windowless metal fire doors on struts up top, a newer model.
The best way to see whether a fire-forecasting system works or not is to simulate a fire whose outcome is already known, and see whether the model correctly predicts what happened.
The company has created hundreds of American automotive jobs and its first model, the Roadster sports car, lit a fire under Detroit to begin producing electric and plug-in hybrid electric cars but with less success.
It also goes further than ever before to model the ways in which the atmosphere is affected by a fire's heat.
This bodes well for Amazon selling more through their revenue model, and one would expect this to increase as the Kindle Fire gains traction.
While many stimulus projects have come under fire as pork barrel spending, backers of the nets program say it is a model for helping those battered by the economic downturn while completing needed public works.
London Fire Brigade fire scene investigator Andrew Vaughan-Davies told the inquest an investigation found the chest freezer was a Whirlpool model.
Similar to an incident last spring that left a model burnt to near smithereens and damaged its owner's house, the Karma above caught fire in a Woodside, CA parking lot while powered off.
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