NUMERICAL PREDICTION OF PLANETARY-SCALE WAVES

Abstract

Current numerical barotropic and baroclinic forecasting models have shown an inability to correctly represent the behavior of the plane tary-scale waves. A mathematical model, based on the thermodynamic energy equation, has been proposed by Wiin-Nielsen as a means of predicting the behavior of the planetary-scale waves. The model is programmed for the Control Data Corpora tion 1604 digital computer to utilize the opera tional output of machine-processed data and analyses produced by the U. S. Navy Fleet Numerical Weather Facil- 39fnwf0, monterey, California. The present form of the program yields a 1-hr planetary-scale forecast at 1000 mb, 850 mb, 700 mb, 500 mb and 300 mb in ten minutes.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1963
Accession Number
AD0412913

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People

  • Noel T. Wood

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  • Naval Postgraduate School

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  • Energy and Power Technologies

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  • Atmospheres
  • Barometric Pressure
  • Boundaries
  • California
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Digital Computers
  • Equations
  • Fourier Analysis
  • Grids
  • Lapse Rate
  • Latitude
  • Models
  • Northern Hemisphere
  • Standards
  • United States
  • Wind

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  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Wave Propagation and Nonlinear Chaotic Dynamics.