10-02-2012, 05:31 PM
I think my love of math is one reason I had a blast earning a degree in meteorology (that's weather to lay people :tongue
Advection, convection, dew points, wind speed, single cell- supper cell, and a lot more all gets sort of tossed in a tumbler with Chaos Theory, mixed up and dumped out, then pounded on with a bunch more math, then you get a forecast, long range predictions and cyclic probabilities going.
You get to put all of that 'useless' math to work along with a healthy dose of insight and intuition. Not that's I'd ever go tot work for NOAA or even want to be a weather person on TV or radio, but it is an interesting use for math.
Advection, convection, dew points, wind speed, single cell- supper cell, and a lot more all gets sort of tossed in a tumbler with Chaos Theory, mixed up and dumped out, then pounded on with a bunch more math, then you get a forecast, long range predictions and cyclic probabilities going.
You get to put all of that 'useless' math to work along with a healthy dose of insight and intuition. Not that's I'd ever go tot work for NOAA or even want to be a weather person on TV or radio, but it is an interesting use for math.