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From Neurons to Neutrinos—Modeling the Whole Earth System

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This paper was written in conjunction with a talk given as part of a symposium held in honor of Dr. Minoru Freund, friend of the author and highly respected scientist at the NASA AMES Research Center, Mountain View, California.

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    See BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research Report ‘Global Drought—Opportunities and Risks’.

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    Derechos are long-lived straight-line windstorms associated with a fast band of thunderstorms.

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    Natural Hazards 63(2), 1273–1278, doi:10.1007/s11069-012-0162-0, September 2012.

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    Part of the Stockholm University: http://www.stockholmresilience.org/planetary-boundaries.

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    David Wasdell, Director of the Apollo-Gaia Project, London, UK. Full analysis is available at http://www.apollo-gaia.org/Climate_Sensitivity.htm.

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    Green House Gas.

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    GEO: Group on Earth Observations http://www.earthobservations.org/index.shtml.

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    GOSIC: Global Observing Systems Information Center: http://gosic.org/.

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    CSEM: Community Earth System Model http://www.cesm.ucar.edu/.

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    IS-ENES: European Network for Earth System Modeling https://verc.enes.org/.

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    CPU-GPU: Central Processing Unit-Graphic Processing Unit.

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  1. ICES Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland

    Robert Bishop

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  1. SETI Institute, Mountain View, California, USA

    Friedemann Freund

  2. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, California, USA

    Stephanie Langhoff

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Bishop, R. (2014). From Neurons to Neutrinos—Modeling the Whole Earth System. In: Freund, F., Langhoff, S. (eds) Universe of Scales: From Nanotechnology to Cosmology. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 150. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02207-9_12

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