NUMERICAL FORECASTING OF HUMIDITY, CLOUDINESS AND PRECIPITATION BY MEANS OF A COMPUTER
Abstract
Advances were made in numerical forecasting of the pressure fields at several levels in the free atmosphere. These forecasts were based on the solution of hydrothermodynamic equations in quasigeostrophic, adiabatic and quasiadiabatic approximations. The quality of the pressure field forecasts can be raised through systematic elimination of these assumptions. Within the framework of the current, comparatively simple numerical systems of computing pressure, one can forecast a number of meteorological elements: vertical currents, humidity, cloud cover and precipitation. A first attempt is made to solve the problem of forecasting cloudiness and precipitation based on precomputation of the pressure, vertical current and humidity fields. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1961
- Accession Number
- AD0258712
Entities
People
- E.g. Lomonosov
- Iu.n. Lunin
- P.k. Dushkin
Organizations
- American Meteorological Society