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\title{Senior Seminar}
\author{Skylar Thompson}
%\date{September 7, 2005}
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Weather generators such as Cligen use a large database of historical
weather readings to produce a likely model of weather at a particular site
on a particular day.  Because of the amount of data, the models can take a
long time to generate.  Parallelization of the software could result in
significant speed-ups. The core equations involve summations and nested
polynomials, so I would expect to get fairly significant speed-up.

In addition to improving run-time, I would also like to design a graphical
front-end for the simulation. The front-end would not only display a
human-readable summary of the data, but would allow the user to tweak the
local conditions to see what small (or large) changes to the weather have
on the model.

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