Accession Number:
AD0686170
Title:
STUDIES OF ATMOSPHERIC PREDICTABILITY.
Descriptive Note:
Final scientific rept. Mar 66-Jan 69,
Corporate Author:
MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH CAMBRIDGE DEPT OF METEOROLOGY
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
1969-02-01
Pagination or Media Count:
151.0
Abstract:
The range at which good forecasts of the weather are possible is limited by the rate at which separate solutions of the governing dynamic equations diverge from one another. Studies aimed at determining this rate have thus far employed a dynamical approach, an empirical approach, or a dynamical-empirical approach. A comparison of these three approach points to a value of about three days as the best estimate of the average doubling time for small differences between solutions. Author
Descriptors:
- (*WEATHER FORECASTING
- STATISTICAL ANALYSIS)
- (*WEATHER
- MATHEMATICAL PREDICTION)
- NUMERICAL INTEGRATION
- TURBULENCE
- DIURNAL VARIATIONS
- ERRORS
- ATMOSPHERES
- NUMERICAL METHODS AND PROCEDURES
- APPROXIMATION(MATHEMATICS)
- STABILITY
- ACCURACY
- KINETIC ENERGY
- THUNDERSTORMS
- ATMOSPHERE MODELS
- CLOUDS
- EQUATIONS OF MOTION
Subject Categories:
- Meteorology