Urban heat forecasts could be enhanced with machine learning
A new study led by the Met Office highlights potential improvements to hyper-local forecasts for heatwaves in urban areas by harnessing citizen observations, land cover data and machine learning...
The Met Office’s standard national-scale forecast has a resolution of 1.5km, which means that the grid squares are 1.5km x 1.5km. The urban temperature forecasts produced as part of this study took the resolution to just 100m, showing the potential for hyper-local forecasts for temperature, even within the same street.
The Met Office’s standard national-scale forecast has a resolution of 1.5km, which means that the grid squares are 1.5km x 1.5km. The urban temperature forecasts produced as part of this study took the resolution to just 100m, showing the potential for hyper-local forecasts for temperature, even within the same street.
A random survey of this development could hyper-interesting were we to ask a hyper-simple question -
Is this article mostly hyper-cobblers?
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Their thermometers are largely badly located rubbish. Fannying about with fractions of a degree when your readings aren't accurate to better than two or three degrees is fatuous.
ReplyDeletedearieme - my lab looked after a Met Office weather station in the seventies and eighties. Their thermometer was a cheap greenhouse max/min thermometer which was never calibrated against a standard.
ReplyDeleteToo hyper-simple, those choices.
ReplyDeleteJames - and too hyper-revealing of those taken in by hyper-fake headlines.
ReplyDeleteBut I thought that all temperature measurements were enhanced anyway.
ReplyDeleteOr is this just some not-yet indoctrinated naif letting the pussy exit the sack?
By measuring the temperature of really small areas some previously ignored evidence of Warble Gloaming (© Grampa) could be useful. For example a fresh cow pat is considerably warmer than the ground was before it was deposited.
And, a bonus, it proves that cows are cooking the planet.
Doonhamer - blimey I think you are on to something there. If researchers shoved their eBay thermometers into fresh cow pats to check surface warming trends then no wonder they are panicking.
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