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Palmer, T. N.

The physics of numerical analysis: a climate modelling case study. (English) Zbl 1462.86010

Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., A, Math. Phys. Eng. Sci. 378, No. 2166, Article ID 20190058, 6 p. (2020).
Summary: The case is made for a much closer synergy between climate science, numerical analysis and computer science.

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MSC:

86A08 Climate science and climate modeling
86-08 Computational methods for problems pertaining to geophysics

Keywords:

exascale computing; artificial intelligence; climate modelling; low-precision modelling; stochastic parametrization; artificial intelligence; computer modelling and simulation; computational physics; meteorology; climatology
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