TY - JOUR
T1 - Can we predict the weather? New tools for an old problem
AU - Dubrulle, Bérengère
AU - Barlet, Ariane
AU - Barral, Amaury
AU - Cheminet, Adam
AU - Costa, Guillaume
AU - Dragoni, Pietro
AU - Harikrishnan, Abhishek
AU - Lopez, Adrien
AU - Mallick, Kirone
AU - Pikeroen, Quentin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2025 American Physical Society
PY - 2025/8/14
Y1 - 2025/8/14
N2 - Today’s weather forecast is based on a simulation of established laws of physics and mathematics. Despite important progress in computing power, observations, and mathematics, predicting the weather reliably for more than a few days has always been a major challenge. In the late 1950s and 1960s, Lewis Fry Richardson, and later, Edward Lorenz, set up the basis for the understanding of this challenge, using observations, phenomenological arguments, and low-order models. Here, we first summarize their findings, then discuss some of the recent advances in this domain, made possible through the advent of new numerical and theoretical tools.
AB - Today’s weather forecast is based on a simulation of established laws of physics and mathematics. Despite important progress in computing power, observations, and mathematics, predicting the weather reliably for more than a few days has always been a major challenge. In the late 1950s and 1960s, Lewis Fry Richardson, and later, Edward Lorenz, set up the basis for the understanding of this challenge, using observations, phenomenological arguments, and low-order models. Here, we first summarize their findings, then discuss some of the recent advances in this domain, made possible through the advent of new numerical and theoretical tools.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105021361536
U2 - 10.1103/25dz-vjmt
DO - 10.1103/25dz-vjmt
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:105021361536
SN - 2469-990X
VL - 10
SP - 083801-1-083801-13
JO - Physical Review Fluids
JF - Physical Review Fluids
IS - 8
ER -