Warner, Thomas Tomkins creator text enk 2010 monographic eng

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1 online resource (550 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). This textbook provides a comprehensive yet accessible treatment of weather and climate prediction, for graduate students, researchers and professionals. It teaches the strengths, weaknesses and best practices for the use of atmospheric models. It is ideal for the many scientists who use such models across a wide variety of applications. The book describes the different numerical methods, data assimilation, ensemble methods, predictability, land-surface modeling, climate modeling and downscaling, computational fluid-dynamics models, experimental designs in model-based research, verification methods, operational prediction, and special applications such as air-quality modeling and flood prediction. This volume will satisfy everyone who needs to know about atmospheric modeling for use in research or operations. It is ideal both as a textbook for a course on weather and climate prediction and as a reference text for researchers and professionals from a range of backgrounds: atmospheric science, meteorology, climatology, environmental science, geography, and geophysical fluid mechanics/dynamics. Thomas Tomkins Warner. Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). Numerical weather forecasting QC996 .W37 2011 551.63/4 9780511763243 (ebook) http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511763243 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511763243 UkCbUP 100506 20170921125629.0 CR9780511763243