Thomas Tomkins Warner (Bo National Center for Atmospheric Research

Numerical Weather and Climate Prediction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides a comprehensive yet accessible treatment of computer-based weather and climate prediction, for graduate students, researchers and professionals.

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This book provides a comprehensive yet accessible treatment of weather and climate prediction, for graduate students, researchers and professionals. It teaches the strengths, weaknesses and best practices for the use of atmospheric models. It is ideal for the many scientists who use such models across a wide variety of applications.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 550
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 1306g
• ISBN-13: 9780521513890
• ISBN-10: 0521513898
• Artikelnr.: 31192564

Autorenporträt

Tom Warner was a Professor in the Department of Meteorology at the Pennsylvania State University before accepting his current joint appointment with the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado. His career has involved teaching and research in numerical weather prediction and mesoscale meteorological processes. He has published on these and other subjects in numerous professional journals. His recent research and teaching has focused on atmospheric processes, operational weather prediction, and arid-land meteorology. He is the author of Desert Meteorology (2004), also published by Cambridge University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
List of acronyms
List of symbols
1. Introduction
2. The governing systems of equations
3. Numerical solutions to the equations
4. Physical-process parameterizations
5. Modeling surface processes
6. Model initialization
7. Ensemble methods
8. Predictability
9. Verification methods
10. Experimental design in model-based research
11. Techniques for analyzing model output
12. Operational numerical weather prediction
13. Statistical post processing of model output
14. Coupled special-applications models
15. Computational fluid-dynamics models
16. Climate modeling and downscaling
Appendix. Suggested code structure and experiments for a simple shallow-fluid model
References
Index.