Accession Number:

AD0412913

Title:

NUMERICAL PREDICTION OF PLANETARY-SCALE WAVES

Descriptive Note:

Master's thesis

Corporate Author:

NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA

Personal Author(s):

• Wood, Noel T.

Report Date:

1963-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

35.0

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.

Descriptors:

• *MATHEMATICAL MODELS
• *METEOROLOGY
• *WAVE PROPAGATION
• BAROMETRIC PRESSURE
• COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
• DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS
• EQUATIONS
• FOURIER ANALYSIS
• STABILITY
• THERMODYNAMICS
• VORTICES
• WEATHER FORECASTING

Subject Categories:

• Meteorology
• Operations Research

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE