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Short-Range Forecasting

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Mesoscale Meteorology and Forecasting

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Weather forecasting, as defined in Huschke (1959, p. 623), is a statement of the expected future occurrence of one or more weather elements. Weather elements are taken to include such things as “temperature, humidity, precipitation, cloudiness, brightness, visibility, and wind.” Thus, weather forecasting is not just forecasting the variables in the governing equations of meteorology. Inferring the patterns of weather elements from a map depicting those variables is also essential (Tepper, 1959; Sanders, 1971; Weiss and Ferguson, 1982), even with high-resolution data (Tepper, 1959).

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  1. NOAA/ERL National Severe Storms Laboratory, 73069, Norman, OK, USA

    Peter S. Ray

  2. Dept. of Meteorology and Supercomputer Computations Research Institute, Florida State University, 32306, Tallahassee, FL, USA

    Peter S. Ray

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Doswell, C.A. (1986). Short-Range Forecasting. In: Ray, P.S. (eds) Mesoscale Meteorology and Forecasting. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-935704-20-1_29

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