re: #2 John Vreeland

My suspicion is that there is some underlying math in the vortex behavior that will sharpen up the existing models once properly applied. I’m reminded of fractals and how that math pervades in nature. This finding may be more cool than critical, but worthwhile none the less.

re: #1 jvic

If the reported research shows a way of demonstrating that a lot of the complexity in those models is irrelevant, that would be important, both to make the computations faster & more responsive to data updates, and to guide attention to understanding the truly significant factors.

This is key AFAIK.