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- noun mathematics A method of
testing amathematical model by usingdata from a past event
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Examples
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Apparently, the "hindcast" was prepared by the Navy Meteorological and Oceanography Command at the Stennis Space Center in Biloxi.
Hindcasting Wind vs. Water Beach Blogger 2006
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The researchers used nine versions of its decadal prediction model to "hindcast" Atlantic hurricanes each year from 1960 to 2007.
Wired Top Stories Alexandra Witze 2010
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Sverdrup and Munk hunted down old weather maps, then plugged the weather data into their model to "hindcast" wave heights for each Pan Am landing.
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Red is the actual Hadley data - so you'll note that their "hindcast" isn't terribly accurate in the first place.
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The ability to hindcast the time-evolution of the 20th century climate change e.g.
Archive 2009-03-01 EliRabett 2009
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In fact only preliminary efforts have been made to make models with a temporal scale of 1 decade (not 5 years), and while they show some interesting results they still have many issues to be worked out (chiefly their ability to hindcast).
Anthropogenic Climate Change In Serious Doubt « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009
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This working theory which is constantly being refined is able to accurately hindcast the climate for the past century, giving its predictive power plenty of confidence.
Arrogant, Crass And Rude: The New Green Party « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009
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The ability to hindcast the time-evolution of the 20th century climate change e.g.
Rabett Run EliRabett 2009
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But you could very seriously question the ability of the models to REALLY hindcast the climate .
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One of the claimed successes of the climate models is the ability to “hindcast” the climate, in some cases as far back as 100 years.
john commented on the word hindcast
“Instead, scientists will try to determine whether the whale had been swimming through oil by using a method known as hindcasting, which looks at how bloated an animal’s body is to calculate how long it has been dead, then retraces patterns in water currents to tell where the body might have drifted from.”
The New York Times, Spill May Have Taken Its Largest Victim Yet, by Leslie Kaufman, June 17, 2010
June 18, 2010