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The problem of initialization in numerical weather prediction had its birth with the very first attempt by Richardson (1922) to use numerical computations to predict the weather. As is well-known, Richardson’s forecast was a failure predicting surface pressure changes larger that 1000 hPa over a six hour interval.
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Tribbia, J. (2020). Normal Mode Functions and Initialization. In: Žagar, N., Tribbia, J. (eds) Modal View of Atmospheric Variability. Mathematics of Planet Earth, vol 8. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60963-4_2
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