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Climatology was an app developed to give you seasonal climate information for absolutely anywhere on Earth including temperature, rain, sunniness and humidity. Whether finding where are the warm, dry places to go on holiday in…
As do other recreational pilots, Ashish Kapoor learned during flight training that he shouldn’t count on the accuracy of wind forecasts. The best available forecasts in the United States—from the federal government’s Winds Aloft program—have…
Microsoft chose Naval Group to implement Phase 2 of its immersed Datacenter project, also called Project Natick. Naval Group and its subsidiary Naval Energies have adapted their technologies to the design of the Natick Phase…
Source code, driver data and user manual for the Madingley model, as described in Harfoot, M.B.J., Newbold, T., Tittensor, D.P., Emmott, S., Hutton, J., Lyutsarev, V., Smith, M.J., Scharlemann, J.P.W. & Purves, D.W. (2014) Emergent…
Sadia Ahmed explains how to use FetchClimate: a fast, free, intelligent climate information service that operates over the cloud to return exactly the information you need.
Last June, U.S. President Barack Obama announced a Climate Action Plan to help predict and address the impacts of climate change. To further this important effort, Microsoft Research is pleased to launch a special Climate…
Posted by Rob Knies People love to watch animals. That’s why zoos exist. That’s why photographic safaris command princely sums. That’s why cat videos have become an unstoppable force. Lucas Joppa loves to watch animals,…
