INSTRUCTORS:
Leslie, Lance
Professor EmeritusAddress
National Weather Center, 120 David L Boren Blvd, Room 5600, Norman, OK 73072 View mapCategories
Spring 2017- Introduction and Course Overview
- Historical perspective
- What are numerical weather analysis (NWA) and numerical weather prediction (NWP)?
- Why are they important?
- How “good” are they at present? What are the key performance issues?
- Governing Equations for NWP
- Derivation and classification
- Barotropic vorticity equation
- Shallow water equations
- Normal and forced modes
- Numerical Weather Analysis I
- Definitions and concepts
- Numerical Weather Analysis II
- Optimal interpolation
- Data assimilation: existing and emerging techniques
- NWP Methods I: Theory
- Concepts: consistency, convergence and stability
Temporal and spatial differencing
- Boundary conditions and filters
- Conserving schemes
- NWP Methods II: Assessment of Specific Models
- Numeric and physics of GFS, WRF, UKMO, ECMWF and other models
- (including climate models). How do these models compare?
- Atmospheric Predictability
- Basic concepts and definitions
- Chaos theory and error growth
- Predictability of tropics vs extra-tropics
- Ensemble forecasting methods
- The Future of NWA and NWP
- What might we expect over the coming decades