Whether scientists test their hypotheses as they ought to has interested both cognitive psychologists and philosophers of science. Classic analyses of hypothesis testing assume that people should pick the test with the largest probability of falsifying their current hypothesis, while experiments have shown that people tend to select tests consistent with that hypothesis. Using two different nor...

This special issue on \Regional weather models" complements the Oc-tober 1995 special issue on \Climate and weather modeling", which fo-cused on global models. In this introduction we review the similarities and diierences between regional and global atmospheric models. Next, the structure of regional models is described and we consider how the basic algorithms applied in these models innuence ...

The oceans of the Earth work in concert with the atmosphere to control and regulate the environment. Fed by the sun, the interaction of land, ocean, and atmosphere produces the phenomenon of weather and climate. Only in the past half-century meteorologists have begun to understand weather patterns well enough to produce relatively accurate, although limited, forecasts of future weather patterns...

Common practice suggests that the assessment of wind and solar energy resources is based on data obtained from existing weather stations operated by the national meteorological services and other public services. Usually, these stations are placed at populated locations (for example airports, ports, urban, rural and protected areas) to support weather analysis, forecasts and warnings, local wea...

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This computer model was commissioned by the Tower Environs Partnership as part of the technical studies to underpin proposed enhancement of the surroundings of the Tower. It is intended to provide a sufficiently fine-grained photo-realistic facsimile to allow fine judgement of minor changes in landscape detail. Its credibility is underpinned by close correspondence to the original survey data a...

The number of methods available for classification of multi-label data has increased rapidly over recent years, yet relatively few links have been made with the related task of classification of sequential data. If labels indices are considered as time indices, the problems can often be seen as equivalent. In this paper we detect and elaborate on connections between multi-label methods and Mark...

The Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) Hurricane Prediction System was adopted by the U.S. National Weather Service as an operational hurricane prediction model in the 1995 hurricane season. The framework of the prediction model is described with emphasis on its unique features. The model uses a multiply nested movable mesh system to depict the interior structure of tropical cyclones....

Radio propagation prediction is one of the fundamentals of radio network planning. It is therefore vital that the propagation prediction models are as accurate as possible; taking into account the practical limitations that characterized the propagation environment. In this paper, the performance of Okumura – Hata Model, COST 231 – Hata Model, Standard Propagation Model and Stanford University ...