Month: August 2022
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Present and future synoptic circulation patterns associated with cold and snowy spells over Italy
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It’s widely believed that episodes of significant cold or snow should become less likely as a result of global warming. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change fifth assessment report describes a “very likely” decrease in the number of ice days and low-temperature […]
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Decision-making with distorted memory: Escaping the trap of past experience
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People generally try to learn from their past experiences. Empirically, however, we tend to draw on these experiences in a seemingly irrational way, as originally noted by psychologist Daniel Kahneman. Rather than remembering each episodic experience as a whole, people generally recall […]
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Overvalued fossil fuels, bacteria that eat plastics, and the long reach of dipoles
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Here are some links to several recent articles by LML External Fellow Mark Buchanan
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Extended Poisson-Kac Theory: A Unifying Framework for Stochastic Processes with Finite Propagation Velocity
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Stochastic processes are a cornerstone of physics and engineering, particularly for modelling transport phenomena in the natural and social sciences, including the random movements of cells, bacteria, and viruses, climate fluctuations or the dynamics of financial markets. Such models typically capture the […]