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AMOC in 2024

Posted on 11 December 2024 by ecoquant
Posted in AMOC, climate change, climate disruption, oceanography | Tagged anthropogenic global warming, climate change, climate disruption, oceanography | Leave a comment

Study Finds Climate Link to Atmospheric-River Storms – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Posted on 9 November 2013 by ecoquant

Study Finds Climate Link to Atmospheric-River Storms – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Posted in climate, climate education, environment, geophysics, meteorology, oceanography, science | Tagged climate, meteorology, oceanography, weather | 1 Comment

On oceanography

Posted on 16 September 2013 by ecoquant

On scientific field work and being nimble …. http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id6436-East_China_Seas_Physical_Oceanography_Explored.html

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  • Kalman filtering and smoothing; dynamic linear models



    Also, see datasets and R examples to accompany this excellent text.





    I have used dlm almost exclusively, except when extreme efficiency was required. Since Jouni Helske's KFAS was rewritten, though, I'm increasingly drawn to it, because the noise sources it supports are more diverse than dlm's. KFAS uses the notation and approaches of Durbin, Koopman, and Harvey.

    ``The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.''
    Professor Donald Knuth, 1974
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