The Wolfram Solution for Environmental Sciences
Whether it's for climate change prediction, alternative energy development or pollution modeling, the Wolfram environmental sciences solution lets you work easily with any data (including data from Wolfram|Alpha), apply the most sophisticated computational techniques and generate fully interactive models that are ideal for publishing or results verification.
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- Key Capabilities
Wolfram technologies include thousands of built-in functions and curated data on many topics that let you:
- Model the dispersion of pollutants in the atmosphere with the finite element method
- Use built-in historical weather data or climate data from Wolfram|Alpha to study environmental changes
- Solve complicated chemical kinetic modeling problems to develop fuels from new sources
- Create engineering models to optimize production methods of solar panels and use built-in weather data to backtest their reliability
- Study the chemistry of air pollution to design cleaner cars
- Examine satellite data to study deforestation
- Analyze soil test or atmospheric data to track the spread of contaminants or monitor cleanup efforts
Does your current tool set have these advantages?
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Import experimental data, perform computations and deliver results in one interactive document rather than working with several applications, making it easy to share data
Excel, R, STATA and other programs do not offer an integrated document environment -
Integrated automatic report generation to instantly generate reports with graphics, text and code, making it easy for others to verify your results
Sage, Octave and other freeware do not support automatic report generation -
Symbolic calculations improve the accuracy and reliability of environmental science models over solely numeric computations
R, STATA, MATLAB and other numerical systems do not have integrated symbolic functionality -
Instantly create interactive modeling or data analysis tools without programming expertise
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Powerful symbolic statistical computation and built-in functions for all standard statistical distributions
Advanced symbolic computational capabilities are unique to the Wolfram Language -
Create highly customized, presentation-quality visualizations, including charts, bar charts, scatter plots and many more
SPSS requires explicit programming for customized charts
Environmental sciences specific capabilities:
- Quickly compute models involving thousands of equations or large matrices for chemical kinetics and use built-in nonlinear optimization routines to find the best parameters »
- Powerful symbolic and numeric differential equation solvers for chemical or climate modeling »
- Use Java and .NET linking to communicate with lab equipment connected to a serial or USB port or with equipment that uses GPIB, VISA, IVI and more »
- Load and access dynamic libraries and use built-in support for GPU computation with CUDA or OpenCL for high-speed, memory-efficient execution
- Create interactive tools for data analysis or to easily change parameters for prototyping climate models »
- Calculate and present results in one fully interactive file and deploy with Wolfram Player to document and share results, allowing others to verify your parameters »
- Easily define and use new distributions from data, formulas or other distributions, including copulas, mixtures, order statistics, censoring, truncation and transforms »
- Functions for automatically computing probabilities and expectations of any event, allowing quick calculations for many problems
- Descriptive statistics for univariate and multivariate data and exploratory analysis techniques for studying air quality or other data »
- Import data in hundreds of formats, including formats used for environmental monitoring results, such as HDF5 and NetCDF, along with GRIB, ArcGRID and more »
- Access curated geographic, scientific, meteorological and socioeconomic information from Wolfram|Alpha interactively or programmatically and immediately analyze it for environmental planning or monitoring »
- Create highly customized, presentation-quality interactive visualizations or graphics for publication with a large variety of powerful visualization functions »
- Easy programmability lets you extend built-in graphing capabilities to create any sort of plot you need »
"I've literally tried to do everything with Mathematica."
Andrew HullConsulting Scientist
"This is a big advantage to have something in one place where everything works together and where everything is consistent.... You can concentrate on what you want to learn...."
Frank ScherbaumGeophysics Professor, University of Potsdam
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