Hardware projects - Using Raspberry pi in scientific applications. See also http://www.weewx.com/
Desktop/information gathering projects - A heat pump in the Clutha as a centralized heating plant for Alexandra
Projects related to modelling - Using the SWIFT semi-empirical model for validating chemistry-climate models
- Hysteresis in the climate system diagnosed with a simple climate model - a start was made by Simon Reifenberg
- Global equity greenhouse gas emissions protocols evaluated with a simple climate model
- The use of additional outputs from the MAGICC simple climate model for climate pattern scaling
- To what extent do the CMIP5 global climate models agree in their simulation of polar amplification (or lack thereof) in the Arctic and Antarctic?
- Working towards the development of a chemistry box model for Bodeker Scientific
- Applications of the optimal estimation method to retrieve the spatial distribution of PM10 emissions over polluted cities e.g. Christchurch
- Developing process-oriented approaches to use ground-, space- and balloon-based measurements to validate key components of Earth System Models
- Implementing the SOCOL-AER chemistry-climate model
Projects related to data analysis - Validating Google Loon temperature measurements using COSMIC radio occultation measurements
- Using combined surface and space-based infra-red spectra to retrieve vertical profiles of essential climate variables
- Furthering the development of the Bodeker Scientific BDBP database - this is now part of the Bodeker Scientific contribution to the Deep South National Science Challenge
- An object-oriented approach to describing projected future changes in rainfall over New Zealand - a start was made on this by Patrick Stoll
- Evaluating the use of StratoBus as a platform for stratospheric measurements.
- Conduct a validation of the PERSIANN data for March 2000 to December 2000 for the New Zealand region.
- Assess the value of the MSWEP global precipitation data set for use in New Zealand.
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