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Posted at 10:08am and tagged with: quote,.

It’s a pretty widely-accepted notion that the atmosphere is a ridiculously complex system, and the best we can do with our models is a rough approximation. The more teraflops we throw at the problem, the more granular the results—but even the best models operate at a scale of a hundred or so kilometers; we’re still just seeing a shadow of the atmosphere’s true complexity. But what if that’s wrong?

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