Joining Forces to Improve Weather Forecasts

Since 1950, there has been a quiet but steady revolution in meteorology, and especially in numerical weather prediction (NWP). The growth in accuracy, range and scope of weather forecasts over the past half-century has been spectacular. As late as the mid-1970s, forecasts were seriously unreliable. The diagram illustrates the inexorable increase in skill of the … Continue reading Joining Forces to…