On the limitations of compute thresholds as a governance strategy

S Hooker - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.05694, 2024 - arxiv.org
At face value, this essay is about understanding a fairly esoteric governance tool called
compute thresholds. However, in order to grapple with whether these thresholds will achieve …

Studying the impacts of meteorological factors on distribution of cloud horizontal scales based on active satellite

L Zhang, J Li, J Li, R Li, W Zhang, M Lei… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
As a significant macrophysical property, cloud horizontal scales play a role in cloud
radiation, precipitation and vertical cloud overlap. Until now, however, the mechanisms …

Finite domains cause bias in measured and modeled distributions of cloud sizes

TD DeWitt, TJ Garrett - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2024 - acp.copernicus.org
A significant uncertainty in assessments of the role of clouds in climate is the
characterization of the full distribution of their sizes. Order-of-magnitude disagreements exist …

A global analysis of the fractal properties of clouds revealing anisotropy of turbulence across scales

KN Rees, TJ Garrett, TD DeWitt, C Bois… - Nonlinear Processes …, 2024 - npg.copernicus.org
The deterministic motions of clouds and turbulence, despite their chaotic nature, have
nonetheless been shown to follow simple statistical power-law scalings: a fractal dimension …