How Scott Collis Is Harnessing New Data To Improve Climate Models

Monday, September 16, 2013 - 13:50 in Earth & Climate

Scott Collis Joel Kimmel The former ski bum built open-access tools that convert raw data from radar databases into formats that climate modelers can use to better predict climate change. Each year, Popular Science seeks out the brightest young scientists and engineers and names them the Brilliant Ten. Like the 110 honorees before them, the members of this year's class are dramatically reshaping their fields--and the future. Some are tackling pragmatic questions, like how to secure the Internet, while others are attacking more abstract ones, like determining the weather on distant exoplanets. The common thread between them is brilliance, of course, but also impact. If the Brilliant Ten are the faces of things to come, the world will be a safer, smarter, and brighter place.--The Editors Scott Collis Argonne National Laboratory Achievement Harnessing new data to improve climate models Clouds are one of the great challenges for climate scientists. They play a complex role...

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