Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 365 of Weather Break
All this week on Weather Break, Dr. Jon Schrage has been talking about the challenges forecasters face due to the chaotic nature of the atmosphere.  Chaos and sensitivity to the initial conditions in weather prediction models mean that the ordinary day-to-day weather [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 364 of Weather Break
This week on Weather Break, Dr. Jon Schrage has been talking about the challenges associated with chaos in the atmosphere.  Over 40 years ago, the late Dr. Edward Lorenz showed that the computer programs that predict the weather are incredibly sensitive to the [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 363 of Weather Break
Yesterday on Weather Break, Dr. Jon Schrage kicked off a series of episodes about chaos in the atmosphere.  You’ll often hear the atmosphere described as being “chaotic” or “unpredictable”, but relatively few people–including lots of meteorologists–really know what that means.  You’ve probably [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 362 of Weather Break
You’ll often hear the atmosphere described as being “chaotic” or “unpredictable”, but relatively few people–including lots of meteorologists–really know what that means.  You’ve probably heard of the so-called “butterfly effect”, for example.  Basically, the butterfly effect is this notion that the atmosphere [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 361 of Weather Break
A few weeks ago on Weather Break, we ran a series of episodes about the weather and climate of Beijing.  At that time, we talked a bit about the dramatic steps China was taking to reduce that country’s air quality problems ahead of [...]

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