This comprehensive text and reference work on numerical weather prediction covers for the first time, not only
methods for numerical modeling, but also the important related areas of data assimilation and predictability. It
incorporates all aspects of environmental computer modeling including an historical overview of the subject, equations
of motion and their approximations, a modern and clear description of numerical methods, and the determination
of initial conditions using weather observations (an important new science known as data assimilation).
Table of Contents
1. Historical overview
2. The continuous equations
3. Discretization of the equations
4. Introduction to the parameterizations of subgrid-scale physical processes
5. Data assimilation
6. Atmospheric predictability and ensemble forecasting
References
Appendix A. The early history of numerical weather prediction
Appendix B. List of acronyms
Appendix C. Coding and checking the linear tangent and adjoint models
Appendix D. Post processing of numerical model output to obtain station weather forecasts.
