Levels of reality in weather forecasting: the lesson by Richardson and von Neumann - Angelo Vulpiani
Channel: Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos (IFISC)
Date: 2017-06-08

- By: Angelo Vulpiani
- Affiliation: Università di Roma
- Date: 2017-06-08T09:30:00+00:00

 At first glance weather forecasting appears just a topic of
practical relevance. An analysis of its main aspects shows
the presence of conceptual topics which are rather interesting 
in complex systems:
a) limits of extreme reductionism
b) limits of naive inductivism
c) relevance of old (apparently very far) classical issues
d) role of models at different scales
e) importance of the proper level of description.

[1] A. Dahan- Dalmedico History and Epistemology of Models: Meteorology as a Case Study Archive for History of Exact Sciences 55, 395 (2001).
[2] P. Lynch The Emergence of Numerical Weather Prediction: Richardson’s Dream (Cambridge University
Press, 2006)
[3] S. Chibbaro, L. Rondoni and Vulpiani Reductionism,
Emergence and Levels of Reality (Springer-Verlag,
2014)

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