The pioneering efforts of Lewis Fry Richardson to use a grid to accomplish this task relative to northern Germany on May 20, 1910, is discussed in chapter four of Nate Silver's book The Signal and the Noise, which praises developments in this task.
The pioneering efforts of Lewis Fry Richardson to use a grid to accomplish this task relative to northern Germany on May 20, 1910, is discussed in chapter four of Nate Silver's book The Signal and the Noise, which praises developments in this task. Skepticism of linear models for this task led chaos theory pioneer Edward Norton Lorenz to develop a model for it that introduced the notion of the Lorenz attractor. The Unified Model is the standard computerized model for this task in the UK; in the U.S., the GFS is the standard numeric model for it. Lorenz coined the term (*) "butterfly effect" to describe the large changes that small causes can have when attempting this predictive task. Modern models for this task use supercomputers to run ensembles of Monte Carlo simulations to model fluid flow in the atmosphere. For 10 points, name this predictive task undertaken by meteorologists.
The pioneering efforts of Lewis Fry Richardson to use a grid to accomplish this task relative to northern Germany on May 20, 1910, is discussed in chapter four of Nate Silver's book The Signal and the Noise, which praises developments in this task.
numerical weather forecasting [accept answers mentioning forecast or predict or model and the weather; accept meteorology or word forms thereof before “meteorologists”; accept atmospheric modeling or word variants thereof before “atmosphere”; do not accept or prompt on more specific answers such as “predicting hurricanes” or “predicting rain”] &lt;Hart&gt;