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Numerical weather and climate prediction /

"This textbook 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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Warner, Thomas T.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The governing systems of equations
  • Numerical solutions to the equations
  • Physical-process parameterizations
  • Modeling surface processes
  • Model initialization
  • Ensemble methods
  • Predictability
  • Verification methods
  • Experimental design in model-based research
  • Techniques for analyzing model output
  • Operational numerical weather prediction
  • Statistical post processing of model output
  • Coupled special-applications models
  • Computational fluid-dynamics models
  • Climate modeling and downscaling
  • Appendix: suggested code structure and experiments for a simple shallow-fluid model.