But once they got there, many said they discovered their stores had very few of the Surface Pro 128 GB models and in some cases, equally few of the 64 GB ones.

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Ms. Reller declined to discuss Microsoft's plans for more homegrown computing devices in addition to two models of its Surface tablet-style computer introduced since October.

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On the issue of storms affecting more of the earth's surface, the worriers are, according to the models, just plain wrong.

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Computer models all predict this region should have warmed more than the surface.

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Studies have compared all the different types of observations (including surface weather stations, balloons and aeroplanes, etc) ingested in weather models and found that Metop data makes the largest contribution to the accuracy of 24-hour lookahead, at around 25%.

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If the moon harbours ice, for example, measuring the amount of it at different depths could enable planetary scientists to work out the rate at which comets smashed into the lunar surface over its history, and that knowledge could then be plugged into models of the formation of the solar system.

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However, that conclusion appears to significantly overestimate the volcano signal because the models predicted deep and large cooling spikes associated with eruptions which are observed to be much smaller in global surface temperature records.

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