Weather Prediction by Numerical Process

Cambridge Mathematical Library

by Walter Fry Pater

PREFACE TH prucess of' fOl'eca,g('ing, which been carricd on in London for m;.LIlY yetU8, may "be typified by one of ito lat(~st developmcnt.s, 1amely CuI. E. Gold's fnrJex oj rv(~{(the1' Maps~, It would hI! difficult to imagine anything Illore immediately practical. The observing ~tatiulls tclegr<1ph Lhe elements of present weatber, At the he~d office theEi{! purticuhrs are set iu their rl~ l1pon a large·sc,l,le map. Thfl index then enables the fOl'eCastel' t.() lind a number of previous maps which resemhle thc present one. The (Orec( is based on the snppusit.io'l thtl,t whlLt the atmusphere did then, it will do a.gain now. There is no houblesolXl.e calculation, with its po~sibilities of theoretical ur arithrnetiea.l elTor. The pn,s(, history of the Itmosphere ii) nsed, su to speak, !l.S !~ full-scale working model of it~ present. self. But-olle may reflect-the Nautical Almmtac, mar~'el of aCCIlra.tfl fOJ"ecastillg, is not ba'!e

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CONTENTS; x; 1 SU!lD1ARY 1; II IS'fHODUC'l'ORY r;XlIlI'II'~; HI THR UJlOICI'~ OF COOltDI~ATE D1FFKltENCJ; 3/1 Exir,ting l'ractico; 3:'2 1'h~ ttivil'ion inLo layers; 3/3- li!1 nf n!")'in!; t,hA ili7~ nf the fmi~ dHl"Ctl!hC<'16; 3:'4 TlII~ l)ll,t~rn on th( m~p; 3,'S Devioo!l for maintaining Ii nearly I!qlilI'C dlcqucr; 3/6 Snnlmary on coordhwce diO(lrllllCFla; 317 TtIl OI-igill of' JOllgitude; Hi; 16; 16; HI; 18; 19; 10; 20; IV TH}: }'LJNIJA)JENTAJ, EQL""A'IIONS 21; 4/0 General 21; 4;" , oquntiow; of dry :Inn rnoif!t Iir 23; 4:'2 'Ihe indc2trudilli lily of 1t11f!f! 2~; 4(3 Clllweyance of Wy :>4; 4:'10 BonP"' t

Genres: Science

254 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1922