Category Archives: GCM

What Is The Surface Area Of A Cloud?

Posted on 14 July 2018 by

What is the surface area of a cloud? Bear in mind they are fractal in general shape. Continue reading →

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Perils of GPU Math For Scientific Computing

Posted on 25 March 2018 by

Just as Climate Models get ported to GPUs, and just as NVIDIA starts to dominate High Performance Computing with their GPUs and CUDA language, just then, we find out NVIDIA’s newest chips of math that sometimes is wrong and not consistently repeatable. Oh Dear. Continue reading →

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Weather Without Mountains Averaged Gives Climate Without Reality

Posted on 12 March 2018 by

How can you get model weather right if you can not model wind / mountain interactions? If you can not model weather right, how can you get climate (as an average of weather) right? Older models clearly are not fine grid enough. Current models likely inadequate also. Continue reading →

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Kurtosis, Mpemba, Temperature and History

Posted on 5 January 2018 by

Does hot water freeze faster than cold water? It depends on the history of the water… Is there a fat tailed distribution of non-temperature states (such as spin of the particles) due to kurtosis in the process, or not? Continue reading →

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