Daily Archives: February 15, 2014

What is resilience?

Posted on February 15, 2014 by Rashid Faridi

Originally posted on Open Geography:
Interesting alternatives if not contradictions in understanding “resilience” in recent publications. Stephanie Wakefield & Bruce Braun understand resilience as a Foucauldian dispositif (apparatus): we understand resilience as a mode of governing the ‘ecological’ city. In Resilient…

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Supercomputer says no: gridding the Earth in next-generation weather and climate models

Posted on February 15, 2014 by Rashid Faridi

Originally posted on ClimateSnack:
The “Yin-Yang” grid, or “tennis ball” grid, is under consideration for use in future climate models. Making a timely weather forecast, or running a high-resolution global climate model, requires the use of a massive supercomputer.? Simulations…