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Overview

Catmosphere is an independent scientific research space for projects that sit somewhere between theory, data and the real world.

Its original focus was natural-hazard modelling: understanding extreme events, making complex scientific information easier to explore, and experimenting with open-source models and public datasets. 

That remains an important part of Catmosphere, but not its boundary. 

Today, the scope is intentionally broader. Projects may involve tropical cyclones, irrigation, volcanic eruptions, spatial statistics, ecological questions, fish trajectories, or something entirely different. The subject matters less than the question behind it. 

The common idea is simple: start from an interesting problem, understand the underlying theory, explore the available data and methods, build something useful from it.

A strong natural-hazard core

Natural disasters remain the main scientific centre of gravity of Catmosphere. This includes work on tropical cyclones, catastrophe-risk modelling, seasonality, climate conditioning and the use of physical and statistical models together (namely building hybrids). 

One long-term objective is still to develop accessible tools for exploring natural hazards: historical events, current conditions and simulated future risk.

But Catmosphere is not intended to become only a catastrophe-modelling platform.

What belongs here

Catmosphere can host different kinds of work:

  • research papers and technical drafts;

  • open-source models and software;

  • interactive tools and visualizations;

  • exploratory studies;

  • reproductions or extensions of published research;

  • unfinished ideas worth documenting.

Some projects may become mature tools, while others may remain experiments. That is intentional and my creative way of working.

Open research

Whenever possible, projects rely on public datasets, open-source software and published scientific research. The objective is not only to show final results, but also to document how they were obtained: assumptions, methodology, limitations and failed approaches included.

Research is rarely a straight line, and Catmosphere does not need to pretend otherwise. 

Projects presented here will follow the same philosophy: they should remain scientifically rigorous without becoming unnecessarily inaccessible. The idea is to present the work at several levels of complexity, so that someone already familiar with the subject can dig into the methodology, assumptions and technical details, while someone discovering it for the first time can still understand the main question, the reasoning behind the approach and why the result matters.

I do not expect every visitor to read equations, code or model specifications. But even without that background, the objective is that the research should still offer something understandable and useful - at least one idea, mechanism or piece of knowledge worth taking away.

Where it goes

There is no fixed roadmap (as long as I'm not paid to promote products I don't believe in). Some directions are already visible and mostly driven by my expertise: tropical-cyclone research, IrriGator, weather and climate models, and other applications of mathematics to natural systems. 

Others will probably appear unexpectedly. 

Catmosphere is therefore less a project with an endpoint than a framework for continuing to investigate things worth understanding. Catmosphere is continuously expanding, but still far away from your door.