He has also come under fire for switching contracts for the Meteorological Department's purchase of a weather forecasting computer.
"All of the computer weather models agree that most of the U.S. will be warmer than usual, but at least we can see the end coming for La Nina, " said Ants Leetmaa, director of NOAA's Climate Prediction Center.
To do this, you could run a "Monte Carlo simulation" in which you plug historical weather data into a computer and then roll a pair of virtual dice 10, 000 times.
I'm one of a number of researchers at NOAA who are working on ways to combine all of the environmental, radar and other weather data into a computer model that will attempt to predict when the tornado will develop and how strong it will be as much as an hour in advance.
So while ENIAC's creators wanted to use their new computer to help predict the weather or the stock market, it wound up helping America's fledgling space program get off the ground.
He said it would provide cleaner and more accurate data for the computer models used to forecast the weather.
Computer models will factor in currents, weather and wind to create search patterns to focus searchers' efforts, he said.
Accurate computer modelling of prescribed burns in various weather conditions would take much of the guesswork out of how to set them, and might give officials more confidence to fight fire with fire.
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Until recently, for a chance of rain of 30%, the Weather Channel's weather.com had shown icons of rain, which for users who don't look at percentages will look like a prediction of wet weather even though the firm's computer models predict that seven out of 10 times on similar days, there will be no rain.
REI's high-tech gadgets, using one computer to track your whereabouts and another to keep tabs on the weather.
One option is for weather centres to run 'ensembles' of models with different variables - groups of computer simulations to see if any come up with similar forecasts.
The team produced a computer-generated radio drama where the script altered depending on factors such as weather.
But the scientists analyzed computer models and concluded that as the planet warms over the next century, weather that fueled the 2011 mega-bloom may become "the new normal, " Michalak said.
But then others objected that the Met Office is the official provider of World Meteorological Organisation statistics and it would be ludicrous to reject their highly sophisticated statistics smoothed by computer models just because the Met Office forecasters were amongst the contestants in the Weather Test.
The new early-warning system brings this approach right up to date, by integrating many different climate-forecasting computer models that couple together information about how the atmosphere and the oceans combine to create the weather.
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Frustrated by the lack of computer-predicted warming over the past decade, some IPCC supporters have been claiming that "extreme weather" has become more common because of more CO2.
The drill ship is equipped with computer-controlled thrusters, swiveling propellers, that can keep it in position in any kind of inclement weather, up to a hurricane.
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