Monthly Archives: May 2016

Predictions and errors

Posted on 30 May, 2016 by Stephen Burt

By Javier Amezcua Predicting is one of the most ambitious goals of science. It goes beyond describing and explaining, and it attempts to “tell the future”. The prediction process has the following basic steps: We have an estimate of the … Continue reading →

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A Random Blog

Posted on 23 May, 2016 by Stephen Burt

By Peter Clark As a young scientist I was introduced to turbulent flow in the traditional way – we consider an ‘infinite ensemble of realisations’ of a random flow, and split each realisation into the average over the ensemble and … Continue reading →

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Characterising extreme event occurrence

Posted on 16 May, 2016 by Stephen Burt

By Reinhard Schiemann When presented with a new data sample, the first thing many of us scientists do is to characterise it in terms of two numbers: the average or mean value of the sample, and the spread or variance of … Continue reading →

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When Did Fronts First Appear in the Met Office’s Daily Weather Report?

Posted on 9 May, 2016 by Stephen Burt

By David Livings One of the good things that can now be found on the web is a complete series of the Met Office’s Daily Weather Report going back to 1860. An overview of the early history of the report … Continue reading →

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A PhD student’s overview of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2016

Posted on 2 May, 2016 by Stephen Burt

By David Flack Last week (18 – 22 April) 13,650 scientists from 109 countries descended upon Vienna for the European Geosciences Union (EGU) general assembly. This includes a range of different disciplines, not just those associated with meteorology and hydrology, … Continue reading →

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