Wendy Parker (Durham University)
Model-data symbiosis -- a mutually dependent, yet mutually beneficial relationship between models and data -- can obtain at the level of research programs or of fields as a whole. In this talk, however, I give examples of model-data symbiosis in meteorology and climate science that obtain much more locally: computer models are used in support of the development of datasets, which are subsequently used in support of modelling activities that involve the same, or closely related, computer models. I then consider why only some of these tight symbiotic relationships raise real concerns about circularity.
