NCAR|UCAR Meet the Experts: Testing the Limits of Weather Predictability
Channel: NSF NCAR & UCAR Science Education
Date: 2021-05-21

What is it like to work at NCAR|UCAR?! Join us as we talk with experts to learn about what they do in their work, the highlights and challenges, and how it impacts us and our world. Then ask them anything you want to know about what it's like to do their jobs!

How can a butterfly in Brazil trigger a snowstorm in Colorado? And what does this mean for weather predictions? Scientists in the NCAR Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Laboratory used one of the most-detailed weather models ever developed to “hunt” for the ultimate limit of weather predictability. Meet scientist Falko Judt, talking about chaos theory, the butterfly effect, and why we will (likely) never be able to forecast the weather for more than 2-3 weeks into the future.