Perhaps some day in the dim future it will be possible to advance the computations faster than the weather advances and at a cost less than the saving to mankind due to the information gained. But that is a dream. -Lewis Fry Richardson [Quote from Weather Prediction by Numerical Process, 1922] Lewis Fry Richardson was a physicist, mathematician and meteorologist. In 1922, the complex equations for fluid motion and atmospheric thermodynamics were known, but it was impossible to make the calculations. Thanks to supercomputers, were now able to. NOAA supercomputers make over 200 TRILLION calculations per second. By the end of this year, that will be increased tenfold (QUADRILLIONS of calculations per second). Lewis Fry Richardson would be impressed if he could see the atmospheric numerical prediction models that we use today.
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 04:24:19 +0000
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