Making sense of a chaotic planet: How understanding weather and climate risks depends on supercomputers like NCAR’s
- Written by Antonios Mamalakis, Assistant Professor of Data Science and Environmental Science, University of Virginia
Have you ever stopped to wonder how forecasters can predict the weather days in advance, or how scientists figure out how the climate might evolve under different policies?
The Earth system is a vast web of intertwined processes, from microscopic chemical reactions to towering storms. Ocean currents circulating deep in the Atlantic, forests...