A Computer Model for Global Study of the General Circulation of the Atmosphere

A mathematical model is developed for global prediction of large-scale movements and mean properties of the atmosphere from simulated initial weather conditions. A novel feature is the development of the formulation—one of considerably greater complexity than those for previous weather models adapted to machine calculation—in a concise tensor form. The organization of the computational task illustrates how a very complex problem with vast data requirements may be solved on a computer with limited high-speed storage.