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SUMMARY:The Development of Mathematical Weather Forecasting - Prof Herbert
  Huppert
DTSTART:20211112T180000Z
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CONTACT:Gesa Dünnweber
DESCRIPTION:We would all like to know the weather a few days in advance. I
 t would be useful for at least social\, financial and safety reasons. The 
 first weather forecast (a term put forward by Admiral FitzRoy\, the captai
 n of Darwin's Beagle) was printed in The Times on August 1\, 1861. The gov
 erning equations are now routinely solved using petaflops -- a thousand mi
 llion million calculations per second ! The talk will present the history 
 and mathematics of weather forecasting and describe some of the people inv
 olved in its development.
LOCATION:CMS Meeting Room 2
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