Mathematical model developed 100 years ago used to improve weather and climate models
Monday, September 5, 2016 - 07:31
in Earth & Climate
"The Russian mathematician Andrei Markov (1856–1922) could never have suspected that his Markov chains would be used for weather and climate models more than a century later," says Jesse Dorrestijn, who saw an opportunity to improve the models that describe the cloud formation process, using a scientific work from long ago. Dorrestijn did his PhD research at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), with the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) en TU Delft. On Thursday 8 September, he is defending his PhD at TU Delft on this subject.