Understanding Past Weather to Improve Future Predictions
Gilbert Compo, Jeffrey Whitaker, Prashant Sardeshmukh
Science Writer: Barb DeLuisi
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Proving the skeptics wrong, the new and advanced data assimilation method
studied by Compo, Whitaker, and Sardeshmukh has demonstrated that the idea of
compiling old weather data and blending them is a feasible technique worthy of
future investment. After creating the weather maps of the past 100 years, the
researchers hope that better computer models can be developed based on this new
historical data. The challenge will then be to understand why the weather of the
past varied and whether we can predict how it may change in the 21st Century.