Furthermore, the inspiration of using numerical predictions instead of experimental time-series data allows designing virtual climate control systems, which launches new possibilities to large number of applications.
Dr. Michael E. Mann, a climate expert at the University of Virginia and the lead author of the studies that generated the hockey stick, said, for example, that the virtual climate created by Dr. von Storch's team had far greater past variations in the sun's output than what experts feel really happened.
2) Estimates from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research's (NIWA) "Virtual Climate Station Network" (VCSN) (Cichota et al. 2008; Tait et al. 2006), a grid of points at approximately 5 km spacing across New Zealand where daily estimates of weather variables are modelled.
Staff at NIWA interpolate between meteorological stations to provide daily estimates of weather at 5 km by 5 km grid points throughout New Zealand (Tait et al. 2006), and this is known as the Virtual Climate Station Network (VCSN).
Monthly mean global radiation, and suitably adjusted estimates of mean daily maximum and minimum temperature from the Virtual Climate Station Network were found to estimate these properties for points in the landscape with reasonable precision and small bias.
Data collected from nine independent meteorological stations were compared with estimates from the nearest grid points of the Virtual Climate Station Network created by the New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research NIWAandalsoalso to estimates from NIWA's nearest actual meteorological stations.
In our "climate bubbles," Heinrich writes, we live in a virtual summer world, "eating bananas from Central America and drinking coffee from Africa".
Endowed with substantial arable land and enviable climate and topography, Myanmar could transform into a virtual breadbasket if its land is properly managed.
The incorporation of seasonality is evaluated using a virtual catchment approach at eight sites over a wide range of Australian climate zones, including tropical, temperature, Mediterranean and desert climates (virtual catchment data for the eight sites is freely available via digital repository).
It is very possible that climate change will bring the economic development of these crucial regions to a virtual standstill.
