ANT363H5 Lecture Notes - Plate Tectonics, San Andreas Fault, Stainless Steel
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Kenyah badeng of sarawak, east malaysia: smelling the monsoon, weather prediction, rice farmers who spend their weekdays farming and return to villages on the weekends for social events such as church. How do they respond to extreme and daily events: routinely observe the weather and observe the signs around them. Pay attention to sky coverage (clouds and general atmosphere) Rain characteristics (duration and how heavy it is) Other nature phenomenon that people could see: based a lot from past experience as well, senses that people use in order to identify and predict the weather. It"s not clear what scientific forecast benefits over just knowing by feeling the weather. How uncertain knowledge is translated into decision making: weather prediction. Modeling the earth"s atmosphere with equations with rate of change in pressure, wind, humidity and other things. Predictions using high speed computers that they feed equations into: climate modeling. Related but not at all the same thing.
