Medium-Range Weather Prediction The European Approach /

• Main Author: Woods, Austin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2006.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Meteorology.; Atmospheric sciences.; Geotechnical engineering.; Remote sensing.; Climate change.; Earth Sciences.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences.; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry.; Climate Change.

About 450 million people live in the 18 States that set up the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. Thirty years ago, they est- lished an independent institution with a clearly defined objective. It was not to be a university-type institute for research, neither was it to be an ope- t...

Table of Contents:

• The first Director
• The beginnings — the political background
• Meteorological developments 1967 to 1971
• The Project Study
• The Convention
• In the United Kingdom
• 1794 to 1980: The Formative Years
• The Analysis System — OI to 4D-Var
• The Medium-Range Model
• Ensemble prediction — forecasting the error
• Seasonal prediction
• Wave prediction
• Data from on high
• Re-analysis — towards a new ERA
• Archives and Graphics: towards MARS, MAGICS and Metview
• The computer system: CDC, Cray, Fujitsu, IBM
• Communicating the forecasts: mail and 50 baud to RMDCN
• Commercial issues
• The Staff
• And the outlook is ?.