Blog / Vortex TIMES the times series A Journey Through Time-Domain Wind Resource Assessment. 3. TIMES MOTIVATION This is the third post in the TIMES Series, where we break down everything about Vortex TIMES. In this one, we’ll try to give you insight into “Why we complicated our life by developing this product (instead of …
Blog / Fiction is the new reality III The Vortex “Fiction is the new reality” series reaches an unexpected plot twist in this third chapter: our new Gap Filling feature. After the first two episodes (I and II), the Vortex “Fiction is the new reality” series reaches an unexpected plot twist in this third chapter: our new Gap …
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Blog / Tomorrow belongs to them By Pep Moreno. At Vortex, we try to tough sell our synthetic data but we do make an exception: students. We are almost always open to help students (and their teachers) if the reason for needing the data is properly justified. We consider this a matter of fairness, or maybe Karma. …
Blog / The Gore-Tex Simile By Pep Moreno. Unfortunately because of (or, maybe, luckily thanks to) my lack of education in Marketing or Business, I have made many obvious “errors” during my time at Vortex that any MBA student would have easily avoided. One of them: never speak using a negative. Surprisingly though, one of our main selling …
Blog / The Vortex On-Demand Approach By Pep Moreno. I’m not an economist but my limited knowledge of this subject suggests that having a large stock of goods in your store is an (unavoidable) annoyance that companies should try to minimize.But is stocking unavoidable? From what I have seen, current market trends seem to indicate …
Blog / uncertainty vs. error By Pep Moreno. As you may know, Climate Scale (CS) is a spin-off of Vortex that will offer a similar kind of high-resolution atmospheric modelling results but, instead of spanning 30 years back in time, it will forecast 50 to 100 years ahead. At Vortex we are learning a lot from CS’s new and …
Blog / don’t panic, it’s just hysteresis Behaviour under a change in external conditions is not symmetrical over time. By Pep Moreno. Although the word may be a little frightening, hysteresis is a well-known effect meaning that behaviour under a change in external conditions is not symmetrical over time in the sense that it may …
Blog / Why Palm Trees Survive Hurricanes? At Vortex, we successfully deal with clients from more than 100 countries. We like to think that the key is our flexibility to their cultural differences. By Pep Moreno. Our headquarters are based in Barcelona, in a relatively Southern country of the Northern Hemisphere, a kind of “intermediate” location …
Blog / fiction is the new reality (II) An observation means nothing unless it can be explained by simulations. The above (quite provocative) statement was recently made by an astrophysicist with 28,561 citations and an h-index of 68 at a Congress of Slovenian Physicists (quote courtesy of Mark Zagar from Vestas). Of course, the reverse …
Blog / fiction is the new reality Both measurements and model results are only ‘pieces of the puzzle’ that help us understand atmospheric behavior. Obviously, the title of this article is a joke but it came to mind after a couple of recent experiences shared with us by Vortex customers. It was funny that, when …
