Daisy, daisy, give me your answer do
Daisy, daisy, give me your answer do
- Event time: 1:00pm
- Event date: 15th January 2001
- Speaker: Professor Graeme Ackland (School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
- Location: Room 2511, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
The model is based on Lovelock's ''daisyworld'' model, extended on to a 2D grid to allow for evolution, and simplified by having a single species. Each point on the grid may be inhabited by ''daisies'' which are a particular shade of grey, and grow best at 22o. Paler daisies reflect sunlight and lead to a local cooling of the environment, darker daisies absorb sunlight and locally warm their environment. Stochastic rules determines how the daisies die, or spread to adjacent grid points. New daisies may mutate to have a slightly different colour from their parents.
The daisyworld system is self-regulating, maintaining over a range of external heating (''insolation''). Curvature of the planet gives rise to different environments, but the daisies colour (''albedo'') evolves preferentialy to maintain the local temperature at the optimum 22o. Under extremes of insolation the self regulation breaks down and the daisies die, and we examine the signatures of the system immediately preceding collapse.
Work by Graeme Ackland, Michael Clark and Werner von Bloh.
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