Numerical Weather Prediction and Data Assimilation

by Katsafados, Petros; Mavromatidis, Elias; Spyrou, Christos

• ISBN13: 9781786301413
• ISBN10: 1786301415
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2020-10-13
• Publisher: Wiley-ISTE

Summary

This book has as main aim to be an introductory textbook of applied knowledge in Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP), which is a method of weather forecasting that employs: A set of equations that describe the flow of fluids translated into computer code, combined with parameterizations of other processes, applied on a specific domain and integrated in the basis of initial and domain boundary conditions. Current weather observations serve as input to the numerical computer models through a process called data assimilation to produce atmospheric properties in the future (e.g. temperature, precipitation, and a lot of other meteorological parameters). Various case studies will be also presented and analyzed through this book.

Author Biography

Petros Katsafados, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece.

Elias Mavromatidis, Research Associate, Department of Geography, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece.

Christos Spyrou, Researcher, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Numerical Weather Prediction
2. The Primitive Equations
3. Methods of Solution
4. Domain Structures
5. Boundary Conditions
6. Data Assimilation
7. Desert Dust Modeling
8. Simulations of extreme weather and dust events