Peter Lynch

The Emergence of Numerical Weather Prediction: Richardson's Dream

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Produktbeschreibung

Lewis Fry Richardson dreamt that scientific weather prediction would one day become a practical reality. This book tells the story of Richardson's trial forecast, and the fulfillment of his dream of practical numerical weather forecasting. It includes a complete reconstruction of Richardson's forecast, and analyses in detail the causes of his failure.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 179mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 735g
• ISBN-13: 9780521857291
• ISBN-10: 0521857295
• Artikelnr.: 21882784

Autorenporträt

Peter Lynch is Met Éireann Professor of Meteorology at the University College Dublin and Director of the UCD Meteorology and Climate Centre. Prior to this he was Deputy Director of Met Éireann, the Irish Meteorological Service. He is a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, the Royal Astronomical Society, the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, and the Institute of Physics.

Inhaltsangabe

Guiding signs
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Weather and prediction by numerical process
2. The fundamental equations
3. The oscillations of the atmosphere
4. The barotropic forecast
5. The solution algorithm
6. Observations and inital fields
7. Richardson's forecast
8. Balance and initialization
9. Smoothing the forecast
10. The ENIAC integrations
11. Numerical weather prediction today
12. Fulfilment of the dream
Appendix 1. Table of notation
Appendix 2. Milestones in Richardson's life and career
Appendix 3. Laplace tidal equations: separation of variables
Appendix 4. Richardson's forecast-factory: the $64,000 question
References
Index.