Ecology and environment
Microsoft Research Blog
Coping with floods—of water and data
Halloween 2013 brought real terror to an Austin, Texas, neighborhood, when a flash flood killed four residents and damaged roughly 1,200 homes. Following torrential rains, Onion Creek swept over its banks and inundated the surrounding…
Microsoft Research Blog
Cloud computing helps make sense of cloud forests
The forests that surround Campos do Jordao are among the foggiest places on Earth. With a canopy shrouded in mist much of time, these are the renowned cloud forests of the Brazilian state of São…
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NIPS: Oral Session 5 – John Carlos Baez
Networks in Climate Science The El Niño is a powerful but irregular climate cycle that has huge consequences for agriculture and perhaps global warming. Predicting its arrival more than 6 months ahead of time has…
Project
Climatology
Climatology was an app developed to give you seasonal climate information for absolutely anywhere on Earth including temperature, rain, sunniness and humidity. Whether finding where are the warm, dry places to go on holiday in…
Microsoft Research Blog
AI Takes to the Skies
As do other recreational pilots, Ashish Kapoor learned during flight training that he shouldn’t count on the accuracy of wind forecasts. The best available forecasts in the United States—from the federal government’s Winds Aloft program—have…
Video
Project NATICK: Naval Group collaborates with Microsoft to deploy underwater Datacenter
Microsoft chose Naval Group to implement Phase 2 of its immersed Datacenter project, also called Project Natick. Naval Group and its subsidiary Naval Energies have adapted their technologies to the design of the Natick Phase…
Tool
The Madingley Model
Source code, driver data and user manual for the Madingley model, as described in Harfoot, M.B.J., Newbold, T., Tittensor, D.P., Emmott, S., Hutton, J., Lyutsarev, V., Smith, M.J., Scharlemann, J.P.W. & Purves, D.W. (2014) Emergent…