If you are interested in weather modeling, you should read "Turing's
Cathedral" recounting the early days of the first digital computers. The
one built at Princeton was used to secretly model Hydrogen Bombs but the
cover story, which had to be real, was weather modeling.
Charlie
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 3:02 PM, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The idea is to go beyond 5 days, Charlie, as I understand it (according to
> the BBC’s radio reports). Forecasting beyond that requires different
> assumptions and models, again as I understand it.
>
> Chris
>
> > On 28 Oct 14, at 16:32, Charles Geilfuss <charles.geilfuss@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > That's interesting, Chris. What strikes me, in this age of mini/micro/
> > soon to be nano computers, is that we are reading about a computer
> weighing
> > in at over a hundred tons. And that is just to obtain accurate forecasts
> of
> > five days or so. What must it take to forecast out a month, three months?
> > Can it even be done?
>
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