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"Peter Richardson, 'Richardson's Dream: The Emergence of Scientific Weather Forecasting', Peter Lynch Contents: Guiding Signs, page vi Preface, vii Acknowledgements, ix 1 Weather Prediction by Numerical Process, 1 1.1 The problem, 1 1.2 Vilhelm Bjerknes and scientific forecasting, 4 1.3 Outline of Richardson's life and work, 10 1.4 The origin of Weather Prediction by Numerical Process, 14 1.5 Outline of the contents of WPNP, 18 1.6 Preview of remaining chapters, 26 2 The Fundamental Equations 2.1 Richardson's general circulation model, 2 2.2 The basic equations, 3 2.3 The vertical velocity equation, 4 2.4 Temperature in the stratosphere, 5 2.5 Pressure coordinates, 6 3 The Oscillations of the Atmosphere 3.1 The Laplace tidal equations, 7 3.2 Normal modes of the atmosphere, 8 3.3 Atmospheric tides, 9 3.4 Numerical solution of the Laplace tidal equations, 10 4 The Barotropic Forecast 4.1 Richardson's model and data, 11 4.2 The finite difference scheme, 12 4.3 The barotropic forecast, 13 4.4 The global numerical model, 14 4.5 Extending the forecast, 15 4.6 Non-divergent and balanced initial conditions, 16 4.7 Reflections on the single layer model 5 The Solution Algorithm 5.1 The finite difference method, 78 5.2 Integration in time, 80 5.3 The Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy Stability Criterion, 84 5.4 The Richardson grid, 87 5.5 The equations for the strata, 88 5.6 The computational algorithm, 91 6 Observations and Initial Fields 6.1 Aerological observations, 92 6.2 Dines meteorograph, 93 6.3 The Leipzig charts, 94 6.4 Preparation of the initial fields, 95 7 Richardson's Forecast 7.1 What Richardson actually predicted: twenty numbers, 96 7.2 Scaling the equations of motion, 97 7.3 Analysis of the initial tendencies, 98 7.4 The causes of the forecast failure, 99 7.5 Max Margules and the impossibility of forecasting, 100 8 Balance and Initialization 8.1 Balance in the atmosphere, 101 8.2 The slow manifold, 102 8.3 Techniques of initialization, 103 8.4 The swinging spring, 104 8.5 Digital filter initialization, 105 9 Smoothing the Forecast 9.1 Reconstruction of the forecast, 106 9.2 Richardson's five smoothing methods, 107 9.3 Digital filtering of the initial data, 108 9.4 Extension of the forecast, 109 10 The ENIAC Integrations 10.1 The Meteorology Project, 110 10.2 Filtered equations, 111 10.3 The ENIAC integrations, 112 10.4 The barotropic model, 113 10.5 Multi-level models, 114 10.6 Primitive equation models, 115" Ключевые слова: meteorology, extraneous material, weather prediction, gravity wave, traditional approximation, satellite, equation, surface, balance, frictional force, tercentro, aberdeen maryland, press, vertical stratification, velocity, greatly underestimated, upper troposphere, twentieth century, numerical, earths radius, scale, richardsons initial, bull, sin, time, forecast, dover publications, weatherrev, hpa, wa, layer, simple mechanical, rossby-haurwitz wave, barotropic, artificial language, office, height, strong impetus, sci, ha, 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