Re: Moorad wrote:

Glenn R. Morton (grmorton@waymark.net)
Mon, 19 Oct 1998 19:51:57 -0500

At 01:30 PM 10/19/98 -0500, Moorad Alexanian wrote:

>I am afraid I do not agree with your "new statement." A weather theory
>written down by E. Lorenz, albeit simple, made very interesting predictions.

Oh? The Lorenz equations are so sensitive to initial conditions that after
a few cycles, NO predictions of the state of the system are possible.

>Realistic weather models are much more complicated and are solved
>numerically by computers.

And even these GCM's (Global Climate Models) cannot make exact predictions.
They are still very coarsely gridded and can't incorporate exact
descriptions of humidity variations
glenn

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