Medium-Range Weather Prediction The European Approach /
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...
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2006.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2006. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/b138324 |
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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 ?.