Preliminary Report on the Prognostic Value of Barotropic Models in the Forecasting of 500 mb Height Changes

¹ The investigation described in this report has been supported primarily by a grant froni the U.S. Weather Bureau.

Abstract

Some general comments are given regarding numerical methods of integrating the hydro-dynamic equations. A series of tendency computations for Europe and eastern Atlantic are presented, by and large following the scheme given by Bolin and Charney (1951). Data requirements for this kind of computations are discussed on the basis of the difference in the success of the method over regions with poor and with good data.

Notes

¹ The investigation described in this report has been supported primarily by a grant froni the U.S. Weather Bureau.