Hurricane Katrina, A Perspective
Grant W. Goodge, National Climatic Data Center (retired)
Is the dissemination of hurricane weather forecast information understood by the public? Today we have much better forecasts than a century ago, however the level of wisdom on the part of the potentially affected public doesn't seem to have improved. Is it possible that there is a disconnect between the words we use and the words they understand?
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NOAA Operational Model Archive & Distribution System Live Access Server
Andrea Fey, UNCA Computer Science major and NEMAC research student
This presentation will highlight Andrea’s NEMAC internship with the National Climatic Data Center. Her work involved the integration of format-neutral OPeNDAP data into the NOMADS LAS, a public domain server which offers server-side processing of meteorological data. She will discuss stumbling blocks to utilizing this software to provide access to in-situ data.
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Stewart Dickson, Lecturer, UNCA Department of Computer Science and NEMAC Research Associate
Descriptive geometry is a means of understanding forms found in nature. Mathematical concretization is a means of expressing abstraction in physical materials. These are two aspects of a feedback loop which involves an external and an internal component. Vedic Mathematics is a discipline for internalizing mathematics up to and including differential calculus. The speaker asks whether it is possible, via Vedic exercises, to intuitively understand three-dimensional differential geometry in the same way that a mathematician does?
