Talks: Forecasting Flash Floods and Hurricanes

Professor Mike Cullen, Manager of Data Assimilation Research and Development Group (the Met Office)

Forecasting the weather is a challenge for even the world’s fastest 'super computers'. This is because the mathematical models needed must encompass the entire globe and at the same time account for diverse processes, like ice crystal growth in clouds, that cannot easily be described. Yet huge progress is being made. Hear from someone at the forefront of improving our forecasting powers.

Organised by: The Centre for Analysis and Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, (an EPSRC-supported Science and Innovation Centre) in the Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt Universities

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