Peter Lynch

The Emergence of Numerical Weather Prediction

Richardson's Dream

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book, first published in 2006, is a history of weather forecasting for researchers, graduate students and professionals in numerical weather forecasting.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781107414839
• ISBN-10: 1107414830
• Artikelnr.: 41121784

Autorenporträt

Dr Peter Lynch is a Senior Lecturer in the History & Politics Department at the University of Stirling and is also Director of the Scottish Political Archive.

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.