MAĐARSKI SALTO Orban nakon sastanka s Plenkovićem nahvalio Hrvatsku: "Oni su naš povijesni partner i uvijek ćemo joj iskazivati poštovanje!"

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「Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket」開発の舞台裏。リモートワーク下で大規模チームを動かすDeNAの「イニシアチブ制」とは［CEDEC 2025］

「ポケポケ」の愛称で親しまれる「Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket」の開発を手がけるDeNAが「CEDEC 2025」でセッション「リモートワーク下での大規模ゲームの開発手法 : Pokemon TCG Pocket の事例」を実施した。大規模開発プロジェクトに向けて導入された「イニシアチブ制」の解説が行われた。

Embracing Vulnerability: How Indie Authors Can Leverage Brené Brown's Insights for Creative Success

About 'Daring Greatly' by Brené Brown As an indie author, vulnerability is a constant part of your process, from penning deeply personal narratives to facing criticism once your work is shared with the world. But what if embracing your vulnerability could actually amplify your creative strength? In Daring Greatly, Brené

Crafting Middle-Grade Hits: How Indie Authors Can Combine Beloved Tropes for Irresistible Stories

In 1969, Dario Fontanella Gregori invented a new ice cream sundae that is iconic today in cafés throughout Germany. He started with the standard tropes—vanilla ice cream, red berry syrup, whipped cream, and grated chocolate—and built something surprising yet inevitable: a sundae that looks like a plate of

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Projected changes in the Iberian Peninsula drought characteristics

High spatial resolution drought projections for the Iberian Peninsula (IP) have been examined in terms of duration, frequency, and severity of drought events. For this end, a set of regional climate simulations was completed using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model driven by two global climate models (GCMs), the CCSM4 and the MPI-ESM-LR, for a near (2021-2050) and a far (2071-2100) future, and under two representative concentration pathway (RCP) scenarios (RCP4.5 and RCP8.5). Projected changes for these simulations were analyzed using two drought indices, the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) and the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), considering different timescales (3- and 12-months). The results showed that the IP is very likely to undergo longer and more severe drought events. Substantial changes in drought parameters (i.e., frequency, duration, and severity) were projected by both indices and at both time scales in most of the IP. These changes are particularly strong by the end of the century under RCP8.5. Meanwhile, the intensification of drought conditions is expected to be more moderate for the near future. However, the results also indicated key differences between indices. Projected drought conditions by using the SPEI showed more severe increases in drought events than those from SPI by the end of the century and, especially, for the high-emission scenario. The most extreme conditions were projected in terms of the duration of the events. Specifically, results from the 12-month SPEI analysis suggested a significant risk of megadrought events (drought events longer than 15 years) in many areas of IP by the end of the century under RCP8.5.

Do AI models produce better weather forecasts than physics-based models? A quantitative evaluation case study of Storm Ciarán

There has been huge recent interest in the potential of making operational weather forecasts using machine learning techniques. As they become a part of the weather forecasting toolbox, there is a pressing need to understand how well current machine learning models can simulate high-impact weather events. We compare forecasts of Storm Ciarán, a European windstorm that caused sixteen deaths and extensive damage in Northern Europe, made by machine learning and numerical weather prediction models. The four machine learning models considered (FourCastNet, Pangu-Weather, GraphCast and FourCastNet-v2) produce forecasts that accurately capture the synoptic-scale structure of the cyclone including the position of the cloud head, shape of the warm sector and location of warm conveyor belt jet, and the large-scale dynamical drivers important for the rapid storm development such as the position of the storm relative to the upper-level jet exit. However, their ability to resolve the more detailed structures important for issuing weather warnings is more mixed. All of the machine learning models underestimate the peak amplitude of winds associated with the storm, only some machine learning models resolve the warm core seclusion and none of the machine learning models capture the sharp bent-back warm frontal gradient. Our study shows there is a great deal about the performance and properties of machine learning weather forecasts that can be derived from case studies of high-impact weather events such as Storm Ciarán.

Circumpolar ocean stability on Mars 3 Gy ago

What was the nature of the Late Hesperian climate? Warm and wet or cold and dry? Formulated this way the question leads to an apparent paradox since both options seem implausible. A warm and wet climate would have produced extensive fluvial erosion but few valley networks have been observed at the age of the late Hesperian. A too cold climate would have kept any northern ocean frozen most of the time. A moderate cold climate would have transferred the water from the ocean to the land in the form of snow and ice. But this would prevent tsunami formation, for which there is some evidence. Here, we provide new insights from numerical climate simulations in agreement with surface geological features to demonstrate that the Martian climate could have been both cold and wet. Using an advanced General Circulation Model (GCM), we demonstrate that an ocean can be stable, even if the Martian mean surface temperature is lower than 0$^\circ$C. Rainfall is moderate near the shorelines and in the ocean. The southern plateau is mostly covered by ice with a mean temperature below 0$^\circ$C and a glacier return flow back to the ocean. This climate is achieved with a 1 bar CO$_2$ dominated atmosphere with 10\% H$_2$. Under this scenario 3 Ga, the geologic evidence of a shoreline and tsunami deposits along the ocean/land dichotomy are compatible with ice sheets and glacial valleys in the southern highlands.

Thermal tides in neutrally stratified atmospheres: Revisiting the Earth's Precambrian rotational equilibrium

Rotational dynamics of the Earth, over geological timescales, have profoundly affected local and global climatic evolution, probably contributing to the evolution of life. To better retrieve the Earth's rotational history, and motivated by the published hypothesis of a stabilized length of day during the Precambrian, we examine the effect of thermal tides on the evolution of planetary rotational motion. The hypothesized scenario is contingent upon encountering a resonance in atmospheric Lamb waves, whereby an amplified thermotidal torque cancels the opposing torque of the oceans and solid interior, driving the Earth into a rotational equilibrium. With this scenario in mind, we construct an ab initio model of thermal tides on rocky planets describing a neutrally stratified atmosphere. The model takes into account dissipative processes with Newtonian cooling and diffusive processes in the planetary boundary layer. We retrieve from this model a closed-form solution for the frequency-dependent tidal torque which captures the main spectral features previously computed using 3D general circulation models. In particular, under longwave heating, diffusive processes near the surface and the delayed thermal response of the ground prove to be responsible for attenuating, and possibly annihilating, the accelerating effect of the thermotidal torque at the resonance. When applied to the Earth, our model prediction suggests the occurrence of the Lamb resonance in the Phanerozoic, but with an amplitude that is insufficient for the rotational equilibrium. Interestingly, though our study was motivated by the Earth's history, the generic tidal solution can be straightforwardly and efficiently applied in exoplanetary settings.