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Weather Prediction by Numerical Process

Lewis Fry Richardson

  • 255 pages
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The 1922 book that first proposed forecasting the weather by solving the equations of the atmosphere, complete with Richardson's famous hand-calculated test forecast. The origin of modern numerical weather prediction.

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