The NMC Operational Global Energy Program

Résumé du livre

"Throughout the years, a need has been recognized by many groups within NOAA for numerical information on the "state" of the atmospheric general circulation as delineated by the synoptic analyses and/or numerical forecasts. For example, such data can be utilized in evaluating forecast techniques, determining the effects of various data inputs to the analyses and monitoring for perturbations against the norm. Ultimately, it was decided that one measure that could fulfill the above requirements was the estimate of various terms in the energy budget of the atmosphere along with certain basic parameters of the circulation that enter into the calculations. With the implementation of the global analysis scheme at NMC in late 1974, it was decided to include these calculations within each computational cycle, both 0000 and 1200g"--Introduction.