REVIEW: The quiet revolution of numerical weather prediction

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Advances in numerical weather prediction represent a quiet revolution because they have resulted from a steady

accumulation of scientific knowledge and technological advances over many years that, with only a few exceptions,

have not been associated with the aura of fundamental physics breakthroughs. Nonetheless, the impact of numerical

weather prediction is among the greatest of any area of physical science. As a computational problem, global weather

prediction is comparable to the simulation of the human brain and of the evolution of the early Universe, and it is

performed every day at major operational centres across the world.

 

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