[Rockhounds] Hurricane Models

[Linda St-Cyr]

Exactly - just imagine doing that with slide rules!  To bring this back on
topic, if you ever get asked to supply materials for an exhibit, perhaps an
exhibit on how a geological survey and analysis was done years ago, throw in
a slide rule along with the other tools.  I found it gets a lot of questions
asked, probably because the movie prop people almost never put slide rules
into the scenes.  So people don't even know what they look like! 

Linda

-----Original Message-----
From: Rockhounds [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at rockhounds.drizzle.com] On
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Sent: Monday, September 11, 2017 8:04 AM
To: 'Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors'
Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Hurricane Models

It's interesting to read all these and know that my son has a part in
helping run the programs.  He works at Cray Research here in the Twin
Cities.  The three biggest customers are the military (don't
ask...really...just don't ask), the oil companies (seismic modelling), and
weather organizations.  That the models can predict where a storm is going
to go a week out and get it within 100 miles is pretty remarkable.  Florida
isn't that wide, and having Irma head up the west instead of east coast
isn't that much of an error in the program.  Just imagine doing all of that
with slide rules.

gcb



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