The quiet revolution of numerical weather prediction
- 2 September 2015
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature
- Vol. 525 (7567), 47-55
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14956
Abstract
Advances in numerical weather prediction represent a quiet revolution because they have resulted from a steady accumulation of scientific knowledge and technological advances over many years that, with only a few exceptions, have not been associated with the aura of fundamental physics breakthroughs. Nonetheless, the impact of numerical weather prediction is among the greatest of any area of physical science. As a computational problem, global weather prediction is comparable to the simulation of the human brain and of the evolution of the early Universe, and it is performed every day at major operational centres across the world.Keywords
This publication has 83 references indexed in Scilit:
- A history of mesoscale model developmentAsia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 2014
- 300 Billion ServedBulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2009
- The origins of computer weather prediction and climate modelingJournal of Computational Physics, 2008
- The Evolution of Dynamical Cores for Global Atmospheric ModelsJournal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. Ser. II, 2007
- REFLECTIONS ON THE CONCEPTION, BIRTH, AND CHILDHOOD OF NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTIONAnnual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2006
- A Simple Comparison of Four Physics–Dynamics Coupling SchemesMonthly Weather Review, 2002
- A Semi-Lagrangian and Semi-Implicit Numerical Integration Scheme for the Primitive Meteorological EquationsJournal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. Ser. II, 1982
- Numerical Forecasting with the Barotropic ModelTellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography, 1955
- Numerical Integration of the Barotropic Vorticity EquationTellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography, 1950
- THE PHYSICAL BASIS OF LONG-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS1Monthly Weather Review, 1901