Visualization in Weather and Climate Research
DON MIDDLETON and TIM SCHEITLIN, National Center for Atmospheric Research
BOB WILHELMSON, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois
44.1 A Brief History
Early in the 20th century, Lewis Fry Richardson, a British mathematician, formulated numerical approximations for the general circulation of the atmosphere and in 1922 published Weather Prediction by Numerical Process. At a time long before the advent of computers, he tried to imagine how it might be possible to solve those complex equations in order to make a weather prediction. He imagined a stadium filled with people, each equipped with a slide rule and tasked with calculating a small part of an overwhelmingly ...
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