Weather Prediction: What Everyone Needs to Know®
$41.98
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
26 February 2024
Summary
Weather has always affected human life. Understanding how weather events form and predicting what kind of weather is coming can help enormously to manage weather-risk and will become even more important as we shift towards strongly weather-dependent energy sources.
Some big steps forward in numerical weather prediction have been made in the past 40 years, thanks to advances in four key areas: the way we observe the Earth, the scientific understanding of the phenomena, advances in high…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780197652121 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0197652123 |
| Author: | Roberto Buizza |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 26 February 2024 |
| Weight: | 358g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 139mm x 210mm |
| Series: | WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW |
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Critics Review
This book is a valuable resource for a solid introduction to weather forecasting and prediction for the lay person. Highly recommended. Undergraduates and general readers only. * Choice *
This book is heartily recommended, especially to those about to start a career in meteorology while having little knowledge of numerical weather prediction and to enthusiasts wanting an introduction to modern numerical weather prediction. * Dan Suri, Early View *
Roberto Buizza
Roberto Buizza is Professor in Physics at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, and Honorary Research Fellow at Imperial College Grantham Institute for Climate Change. He has a degree in physics, a PhD in mathematics, and a master’s in business administration. From 1991 to 2018 he worked at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, where he was a key developer of its prediction systems and served as Head of the Predictability Division and Lead Scientist.
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