Numerical Weather and Climate Prediction

by Thomas Tomkins Warner

• ISBN13: 9780521513890
• ISBN10: 0521513898
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-01-17
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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 models across a wide variety of applications. The book describes the different numerical methods, data assimilation, ensemble methods, predictability, land-surface modeling, climate modeling and downscaling, computational fluid-dynamics models, experimental designs in model-based research, verification methods, operational prediction, and special applications such as air-quality modeling and flood prediction. This volume will satisfy everyone who needs to know about atmospheric modeling for use in research or operations. It is ideal both as a textbook for a course on weather and climate prediction and as a reference text for researchers and professionals from a range of backgrounds: atmospheric science, meteorology, climatology, environmental science, geography, and geophysical fluid mechanics/dynamics.

Table of Contents

Preface

List of acronyms

List of symbols

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

References

Index

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