Big Data in Climate Research
January 6, 2014Advertisement
Satellites and measuring stations provide a constant flow of new data. The amount of data is so vast that it takes a supercomputer called "Blizzard" to process it. In this way, scientists are developing mathematical models of the global climate that are increasingly precise, with more and more high-resolution images. This information provides the basis for the difficult process of predicting climate trends in the decades to come.