Category: diffusion processes

• “Seasonality of COVID-19, Other Coronaviruses, and Influenza” (from Radford Neal’s blog)

  COVID-19 . differential equations . diffusion . diffusion processes . epidemiology . Lotka-Volterra systems . meteorology . pandemic . population biology . population dynamics . Radford Neal . SARS-CoV-2 . statistics

  May 4.2020
• Reanalysis of business visits from deployments of a mobile phone app

  Bayesian computational methods . biology . capture-mark-recapture . capture-recapture . Christian Robert . count data regression . cumulants . diffusion . diffusion processes . Ecological Society of America . ecology . epidemiology . experimental science . field research . Gibbs Sampling . Internet measurement . Jean-Michel Marin . linear regression . mark-recapture . mathematics . maximum likelihood . Monte Carlo Statistical Methods . multilist methods . multivariate statistics . non-mechanistic modeling . non-parametric statistics . numerics . open source scientific software . Pierre-Simon Laplace . population biology . population dynamics . quantitative biology . quantitative ecology . R . R statistical programming language . sampling . sampling algorithms . segmented package in R . statistical ecology . statistical models . statistical regression . statistical series . statistics . stepwise approximation . stochastic algorithms . surveys . V. M. R. Muggeo

  Feb 20.2020
• “Microplastics in the Ocean: Emergency or Exaggeration?” (Morss Colloquium, WHOI)

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . bag bans . Claire Galkowski . coastal communities . coasts . diffusion processes . microbiomes . microplastics . NOAA . oceanic eddies . oceanography . oceans . perceptions . phytoplankton . plastics . pollution . quantitative biology . quantitative ecology . science . science education . statistical ecology . WHOI . Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

  Oct 25.2019
• Sampling: Rejection, Reservoir, and Slice

  accept-reject methods . American Statistical Association . Bayesian computational methods . catastrophe modeling . data science . diffusion processes . empirical likelihood . Gibbs Sampling . insurance . Markov Chain Monte Carlo . mathematics . Mathematics and Climate Research Network . maths . Monte Carlo Statistical Methods . multivariate statistics . numerical algorithms . numerical analysis . numerical software . numerics . percolation theory . Python 3 programming language . R statistical programming language . Radford Neal . sampling . slice sampling . spatial statistics . statistics . stochastic algorithms . stochastic search

  Sep 29.2018
• The work of Alec Bogdanoff and Carol Anne Clayson on the ocean surface boundary layer

  American Meteorological Association . AMETSOC . atmosphere . climate data . complex systems . differential equations . diffusion processes . dynamical systems . energy flux . fluid dynamics . geophysics . meteorology . oceanography . Principles of Planetary Climate . WHOI . Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

  Sep 29.2017
• “Oh no, not again” (from ATTP)

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . American Statistical Association . AMETSOC . atmosphere . being carbon dioxide . Carbon Cycle . carbon dioxide . chemistry . climate . climate disruption . climate education . Climate Lab Book . David Archer . diffusion . diffusion processes . fossil fuels . geophysics . Global Carbon Project . greenhouse gases . ignorance . physics . Principles of Planetary Climate . Ray Pierrehumbert . science . science education

  Feb 26.2017
• You really can’t go home again: An update of “Getting back to 350 ppm CO2 …”

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . Anthropocene . bridge to nowhere . Buckminster Fuller . Carbon Cycle . carbon dioxide . carbon dioxide capture . Carbon Worshipers . clear air capture of carbon dioxide . climate . climate business . climate change . climate data . climate disruption . climate economics . David Archer . diffusion . diffusion processes . ecological services . Eli Rabett . engineering . environment . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuel infrastructure . fossil fuels . games of chance . geoengineering . geophysics . Glen Peters . Global Carbon Project . global warming . greenhouse gases . Hyper Anthropocene . Principles of Planetary Climate . Ray Pierrehumbert . science . Spaceship Earth . Susan Solomon . Svante Arrhenius . the tragedy of our present civilization . Tokarska and Zickfield . Wordpress . zero carbon

  Jan 13.2017
• Global Carbon Dioxide in 3D

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . AMETSOC . Anthropocene . atmosphere . carbon dioxide . Carbon Worshipers . civilization . climate . climate change . climate data . climate disruption . corporate litigation on damage from fossil fuel emissions . diffusion . diffusion processes . Donald Trump . dynamical systems . ecology . environment . fluid eddies . geophysics . global warming . greenhouse gases . Hyper Anthropocene . NASA . NCAR

  Dec 13.2016
• Getting back to 350 ppm CO2: You can’t go home again

  adaptation . American Association for the Advancement of Science . Anthropocene . atmosphere . bollocks . bridge to nowhere . Carbon Cycle . carbon dioxide . carbon dioxide capture . carbon dioxide sequestration . Carbon Worshipers . chemistry . clear air capture of carbon dioxide . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate economics . corporate litigation on damage from fossil fuel emissions . David Archer . diffusion . diffusion processes . ecological services . ecology . economics . engineering . environment . environmental law . fossil fuels . geoengineering . global warming . greenhouse gases . Hyper Anthropocene . leaving fossil fuels in the ground . methane . Our Children’s Trust . physics . rationality . reason . reasonableness . science . Spaceship Earth . the right to be and act stupid . Wally Broecker . zero carbon

  Nov 26.2016
• “Sharon’s Water Problem” (by Paul Lauenstein)

  adaptation . agriculture . American Meteorological Association . AMETSOC . Anthropocene . Boston . citizen science . climate change . climate disruption . diffusion processes . drought . ecology . Ecology Action . environment . forecasting . global warming . hydrology . Hyper Anthropocene . MA . New England . Paul Lauenstein . precipitation . quantitative ecology . science . statistics . the tragedy of our present civilization . water . Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

  Aug 29.2016
• Repaired R code for Markov spatial simulation of hurricane tracks from historical trajectories

  American Meteorological Association . American Statistical Association . AMETSOC . Arthur Charpentier . atmosphere . diffusion . diffusion processes . dynamic linear models . dynamical systems . environment . geophysics . hurricanes . Kalman filter . Kerry Emanuel . Lévy flights . Lorenz . Markov chain random fields . mathematics . mathematics education . maths . MCMC . mesh models . meteorological models . meteorology . model-free forecasting . Monte Carlo Statistical Methods . numerical analysis . numerical software . oceanography . open data . open source scientific software . physics . random walk processes . random walks . science . spatial statistics . state-space models . statistical dependence . statistics . stochastic algorithms . stochastics . time series

  Aug 11.2016
• “Solar power is contagious. These maps show how it spreads.” (from Vox)

  Bloomberg New Energy Finance . BNEF . business . clean disruption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . destructive economic development . diffusion . diffusion processes . disruption . distributed generation . economics . electricity markets . energy . energy utilities . exponential growth . grid defection . investment in wind and solar energy . local generation . Peter Diggle . point pattern analysis . public utility commissions . PUCs . rate of return regulation . regulatory capture . sociology . solar domination . solar energy . solar power . SolarPV.tv . spatial statistics . statistics . stochastics . the energy of the people . the green century . utility company death spiral . zero carbon

  May 6.2016
• Phytoplankton-delineated oceanic eddies near Antarctica

  AMETSOC . Antarctica . Arctic . bacteria . Carbon Cycle . complex systems . differential equations . diffusion . diffusion processes . dynamic linear models . dynamical systems . Emily Shuckburgh . environment . fluid dynamics . geophysics . GLMs . John Marshall . marine biology . Mathematics and Climate Research Network . NASA . numerical analysis . numerical software . oceanic eddies . oceanography . physics . phytoplankton . science . thermohaline circulation . WHOI . Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

  Feb 10.2016
• Massachusetts Solar Suburbs (a Google group)

  adaptation . Anthropocene . Carbon Tax . Carbon Worshipers . citizenship . civilization . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . corporate litigation on damage from fossil fuel emissions . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . destructive economic development . diffusion . diffusion processes . economics . education . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . energy utilities . engineering . environment . ethics . fear uncertainty and doubt . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuels . global warming . Google . greenhouse gases . Hyper Anthropocene . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . MA . meteorology . microgrids . optimization . physics . planning . politics . public utility commissions . rationality . reasonableness . risk . Sankey diagram . solar energy . solar power . SolarPV.tv . sustainability . Tony Seba . wind energy . wind power . zero carbon

  Jan 30.2016
• “Causal feedbacks in climate change”

  Anthropocene . boosting . Carbon Cycle . carbon dioxide . Carbon Worshipers . cat1 . climate . climate change . climate data . climate disruption . complex systems . convergent cross-mapping . denial . differential equations . diffusion processes . dynamical systems . ecology . Egbert van Nes . empirical likelihood . ensembles . environment . Ethan Deyle . Floris Takens . forecasting . fossil fuels . geophysics . George Sughihara . global warming . greenhouse gases . Hao Ye . machine learning . Maren Scheffer . mathematics . maths . meteorology . physics . rationality . reasonableness . science . state-space models . Takens embedding theorem . time series . Timothy Lenton . Victor Brovkin

  Jan 20.2016
• November Hottest Ever, and Christmas Likely To bring Record Warmth in The East (Dan’s Wild Wild Science Journal; AGU Blogosphere)

  AMETSOC . capricious gods . climate . climate models . Dan Satterfield . differential equations . diffusion processes . dynamical systems . ensembles . ENSO . environment . forecasting . geophysics . Hyper Anthropocene . meteorology . NCAR . NOAA . numerical software . physics . science . the right to know . wave equations

  Dec 14.2015
• El Nino In A Can – Dan’s Wild Wild Science Journal – AGU Blogosphere

  AMETSOC . astrophysics . climate . climate change . climate models . computation . Dan Satterfield . differential equations . diffusion . diffusion processes . dynamical systems . ENSO . environment . forecasting . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . Kerry Emanuel . mathematics . maths . mesh models . meteorology . model comparison . NASA . NCAR . NOAA . numerical analysis . oceanography . physics . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . Ray Pierrehumbert . reasonableness . science . Spaceship Earth . stochastics . supercomputers . the right to know . thermodynamics . time series

  Dec 3.2015
• On infrared radiation and Earth temperature

  astrophysics . carbon dioxide . climate . climate change . climate models . David Archer . differential equations . diffusion . diffusion processes . environment . evidence . geophysics . global warming . greenhouse gases . meteorology . methane . oceanography . physics . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . Ray Pierrehumbert . reasonableness . science . Svante Arrhenius

  Nov 23.2015
• Is Earth Much More Sensitive to CO2 Than Thought?

  Anthropocene . Carbon Cycle . carbon dioxide . climate . climate change . climate data . climate disruption . differential equations . diffusion processes . dynamic linear models . dynamical systems . environment . fossil fuels . generalized linear models . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . Principles of Planetary Climate . risk . science

  Nov 19.2015
• On differential localization of tumors using relative concentrations of ctDNA. Part 2.

  Bayes . Bayesian . Bayesian inversion . cancer research . ctDNA . differential equations . diffusion . diffusion processes . engineering . linear algebra

  Oct 26.2015
• No turning back: On the effectiveness of artificially removing emitted CO2 from atmosphere for remediating climate disruption

  adaptation . Anthropocene . carbon dioxide . carbon dioxide capture . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate change . climate disruption . denial . diffusion processes . dynamical systems . environment . ethics . forecasting . fossil fuels . games of chance . geoengineering . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . James Hansen . oceanography . physics . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . scientific publishing . sea level rise . statistics . sustainability . the right to know . thermodynamics . zero carbon

  Sep 16.2015
• New Paper Shows Global Climate Model Errors are Significantly Less Than Thought (Dan’s Wild Wild Science Journal)

  Arctic . carbon dioxide . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate models . differential equations . diffusion processes . ensembles . environment . forecasting . geophysics . global warming . HadCRUT4 . meteorology . model comparison . NASA . NCAR . NOAA . oceanography . open data . physics . prediction . rationality . reasonableness . science . statistics . Tamino . time series

  Aug 2.2015
• Sea Surface Anomalies

  Anthropocene . carbon dioxide . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate education . differential equations . diffusion processes . dynamical systems . ecology . ENSO . environment . forecasting . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . IPCC . mathematics . MCMC . NASA . NCAR . NOAA . oceanography . open data . physics . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . science education . sea level rise . statistics . sustainability . the right to know . time series . transparency

  Jul 24.2015
• “Regulating Government”, from Overcoming Bias

  differential equations . diffusion processes . dynamical systems . economics . finance . risk . statistics . taxes . the right to know . time series

  Jul 22.2015
• Why decentralized electrical power has to win, no matter what Elon Musk says, and utilities are doomed

  bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . Carbon Tax . citizenship . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate education . compassion . conservation . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . diffusion processes . dynamical systems . ecology . economics . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . engineering . environment . ethics . exponential growth . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . geophysics . global warming . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . living shorelines . mass transit . mathematics education . maths . meteorology . microgrids . natural gas . NCAR . NOAA . nor’easters . obfuscating data . oceanography . open data . optimization . physics . politics . population biology . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . Ray Pierrehumbert . reasonableness . reproducible research . risk . science . science education . scientific publishing . Scripps Institution of Oceanography . solar power . state-space models . statistics . temporal myopia . testing . the right to know . time series . wind power . zero carbon

  Jun 16.2015
• One year, and ten years of carbon dioxide concentration readings, Mauna Loa

  carbon dioxide . Carbon Tax . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate education . consumption . diffusion processes . dynamical systems . ecology . environment . ethics . exponential growth . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . geophysics . investment in wind and solar energy . IPCC . meteorology . NOAA . open data . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . science education . Scripps Institution of Oceanography . statistics . sustainability . temporal myopia . the right to know . time series . zero carbon

  Jun 14.2015
• “NOAA temperature record updates and the ‘hiatus’” (from Gavin at REALCLIMATE)

  chance . citizen science . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate education . climate models . diffusion processes . dynamical systems . energy . ensembles . forecasting . geophysics . global warming . hiatus . maths . meteorology . model comparison . NASA . NCAR . NOAA . oceanography . physics . rationality . spatial statistics . statistics . stochastics . temporal myopia . time series

  Jun 4.2015
• Eli Rabett on the APS “Draft Statement on Earth’s Changing Climate”

  carbon dioxide . Carbon Tax . chemistry . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate change . climate education . diffusion processes . ecology . environment . fossil fuel divestment . geophysics . meteorology . methane . NCAR . NOAA . oceanography . open data . politics . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . science education . Scripps Institution of Oceanography . sea level rise . solar power . testing . the right to know . time series . WHOI . wind power

  Apr 21.2015
• “Barking mad”

  astrophysics . bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . carbon dioxide capture . carbon dioxide sequestration . Carbon Tax . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate change . climate education . demand-side solutions . diffusion processes . ecology . economics . engineering . environment . ethics . forecasting . games of chance . geoengineering . geophysics . history . humanism . IPCC . meteorology . NCAR . NOAA . oceanography . physics . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . Ray Pierrehumbert . reasonableness . science . science education . sea level rise . the right to know

  Feb 10.2015
• Models don’t over-estimate warming?

  astrophysics . carbon dioxide . chemistry . citizen science . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate change . climate education . differential equations . diffusion processes . ecology . education . energy . forecasting . geophysics . IPCC . mathematics . meteorology . model comparison . NASA . NCAR . NOAA . oceanography . physics . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . Ray Pierrehumbert . reasonableness . science . statistics . the right to know

  Feb 2.2015