Fractal Weather Prediction

Judebert writes "Benoit Mandelbrot, the man responsible for much of the interest in fractals, spoke last month at the American Giophysical Union meeting. He explained how he has been using fractals to find order within complex systems in nature, such as coastlines and weather. (I thought he was dead, but apparently he's just been teaching at Yale.) Earth scientists have taken his fractal work to the point of forecasting the size, location, and windspeed of hurricanes at landfall. Their predictions are being made available to FEMA and other government agencies."

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Chaos Weather

[cmpalmer]

Of course, the only problem is that you have to have accurate census and location information for every butterfly on the face of the planet in order for the forecast to be accurate.