Remember the San Diego Clean Tech Innovation and Commercialization Program that
the von Liebig Center helped to run? Well, one of the projects selected (and funded at $50K) -- a novel scientific method for predicting extreme hot and cold weather events created at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) at UC San Diego -- spun out of Scripps into
EarthRisk Technologies. The latest issue of "
Explorations" the e-magazine from SIO has a nice story about the project.
"Scripps climate scientist Alexander Gershunov, along with postdoctoral researcher Kristen Guirguis, developed the new approach, which uses past weather information to predict extreme temperature and precipitation events. The method offers forecasts for regions around the world with lead times up to 40 days. Existing techniques for predicting weather don't offer strong data beyond 15 days. "
The
full story by Shannon Casey is here. More info on the
Von Liebig Center is here.
