考研英语外刊：人工智能如何应对气候变化

This push builds on the work already done by climate informatics, a discipline created in 2011 that sits at the intersection of data science and climate science. Climate informatics covers a range of topics: from improving prediction of extreme events such as hurricanes, paleoclimatology, like reconstructing past climate conditions using data collected from things like ice cores, climate downscaling, or using large-scale models to predict weather on a hyper-local level, and the socio-economic impacts of weather and climate.

AI can also unlock new insights from the massive amounts of complex climate simulations generated by the field of climate modeling, which has come a long way since the first system was created at Princeton in the 1960s. Of the dozens of models that have since come into existence, all look at data regarding atmosphere, oceans, land, cryosphere, or ice. But, even with agreement on basic scientific assumptions, Claire Monteleoni, a computer science professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder and a co-founder of climate informatics, points out that while the models generally agree in the short term, differences emerge when it comes to long-term forecasts.

单词笔记：

1. informatics    英 [ˌɪnfəˈmætɪks]  美 [ˌɪnfərˈmætɪks]  

n.信息学；信息科学

2. discipline    英 [ˈdɪsəplɪn]   美 [ˈdɪsəplɪn]  

n.训练;训导;纪律;风纪;训练方法;行为准则;符合准则的行为;自制力;遵守纪律

v.惩罚;处罚;训练;训导;管教;自我控制;严格要求(自己)

第三人称单数： disciplines 复数： disciplines 现在分词： disciplining 过去式： disciplined 过去分词： disciplined

派生词： disciplined adj.

3. prediction    英 [prɪˈdɪkʃn]   美 [prɪˈdɪkʃn]  

n.预言;预测;预告

复数： predictions

4. paleoclimatology    古气候学;气候学;史前气候学;古气候

5. reconstruct    英 [ˌriːkənˈstrʌkt]  美 [ˌriːkənˈstrʌkt]  

v.修复;重建;重造;重现描述;使重现

第三人称单数： reconstructs 现在分词： reconstructing 过去式： reconstructed 过去分词： reconstructed

6. core     英 [kɔː(r)]   美 [kɔːr]  

n.(苹果等的)果心，核儿;(物体的)中心部分;最重要的部分;核心;要点;精髓

adj.最重要的;主要的;基本的;核心( 信念、价值、原则等);核心成员的;骨干的

v.去掉(水果)的果心;去(水果)的核儿

第三人称单数： cores 复数： cores 现在分词： coring 过去式： cored 过去分词： cored

7. downscaling    降尺度;尺度下推;下移;聚解;尺度转换

8. insight    英 [ˈɪnsaɪt]   美 [ˈɪnsaɪt]  

n.洞察力;领悟;洞悉;了解

复数： insights

9. massive    英 [ˈmæsɪv]   美 [ˈmæsɪv]  

adj.巨大的;大而重的;结实的;非常严重的

派生词： massively adv.

10. Dozens    英 [ˈdʌznz]   美 [ˈdʌzənz]    几十个;数十;几十

11. cryosphere    n.低温层

12. emerge    英 [iˈmɜːdʒ]   美 [iˈmɜːrdʒ]  

v.(从隐蔽处或暗处)出现，浮现，露出;暴露;露出真相;被知晓;露头;显现;显露

第三人称单数： emerges 现在分词： emerging 过去式： emerged 过去分词： emerged

派生词： emergence n.