CS382:Chaos
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Contents
Climate Model
Background Reading
- Making Order Out of Chaos: Edward Lorenz
- Edward N. Lorenz "Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow"
- Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow (1963)
- James Gleick "Chaos: Making a New Science"
Lecture Note
- Lecture 1:
- Story of Edward Lorenz
- How he found butterfly effect
- Introducing the weather model which Lorenz used
- Lecture 2:
- Climate model
- Introducing NetLogo-like climate model
- Basic of earth science (showing the relationship among temperature, pressure, wind, and humidity)
- Lecture 3:
- Numerical weather prediction
- Introducing how weather channel forecasts tomorrow's climate
- Different between numerical weather prediction and deterministic climate model
- Lecture 4:
- Global warming
- Can computer scientist predict climate 100 years later?
- Super computer for climate model (earth simulator, etc)
Classroom Response Question
- Who found butterfly effect?
- a. Edward Lorenz
- b. Hendrik Lorentz
- c. Edward Teller
- d. Edward VIII
- What is the chance of rain tomorrow?
- a. 30%
- b. 40%
- c. 50%
- d. (from weather channel)
- How accurate are weather forecasts?
- a. 100%
- b. 90%
- c. 80%
- d. 70%
