GPW is where people *live*, LandScan is where they are likely to be in *any given 24 hour period*. So slightly different results for your nuke usage.
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If I could get reasonable back of the envelope numbers on the fly (e.g., less than a second of calculation per detonation, like the casualty numbers NUKEMAP can already generate very quickly), I could do interesting things with that.
I've been working on this project for awhile, mostly in the summer (and have a very talented student working on it), and many angles of it are basically working but there are still a few things left to make work before the whole thing can work together.
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I could probably get a single-detonation model working in a very short amount of time but the complexities of a multi-det model are too intoxicating and useful to avoid. Should be more time for the student to work on it this spring.
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“the student” Did I ever ask you where you stand on severity, duration, & likelihood of nuclear war induced weather/climate impacts?
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The student (who gets paid for this and likes the work, so he claims!) is doing a lot of the under-the-hood stuff, the writing of the algorithms. I'm getting better at delegating that sort of thing. :-)
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