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Modern Techniques for Numerical Weather Prediction: A Picture Drawn from Kyrill

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This chapter gives a short overview on modern numerical weather prediction (NWP): The chapter sketches the mathematical formulation of the underlying physical problem and its numerical treatment and gives an outlook on statistical weather forecasting (MOS). Special emphasis is given to the Kyrill event in order to demonstrate the application of the different methods.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to acknowledge Meteomedia, especially Markus Pfister and Mark Vornhusen for many fruitful discussions and help with the ensemble and MOS charts. Moreover, the authors’ gratitude goes to ECMWF for providing an extensive documentation and scientific material to their current systems.

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  1. Meteomatics GmbH, St. Gallen, Switzerland

    Nils Dorband & Martin Fengler

  2. Zurich, Switzerland

    Andreas Gumann

  3. Bochum, Germany

    Stefan Laps

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Correspondence to Nils Dorband .

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  1. Geomathematics Group, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Willi Freeden

  2. Department of Mathematics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA

    M. Zuhair Nashed

  3. Computational Mathematics, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

    Thomas Sonar

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Dorband, N., Fengler, M., Gumann, A., Laps, S. (2015). Modern Techniques for Numerical Weather Prediction: A Picture Drawn from Kyrill. In: Freeden, W., Nashed, M., Sonar, T. (eds) Handbook of Geomathematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54551-1_21

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