A quasi-geostrophic barotropic model, incorporating a planetary wave stabilization term, was integrated at the 500-mb level to obtain 12, 24, 36 and 48-hour height forecast charts. To achieve planetary wave stabilization, an approximation based on Phillips’ (1951) two-layer atmospheric model, was made to the horizontal divergence term. The integration was performed on the IBM 1410 computer located at McGill University. The calculations were done on a (49 x 38) rectangular, hemispheric grid network using initial 500-mb height data for February 15, 1959. The resulting forecast, for the particular day, showed a definite improvement over forecasts obtained with other barotropic models which did not include the stabilization term. The comparisons also demonstrated that the use of a large grid can result in an improved forecast.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.115204 |
| Date | January 1963 |
| Creators | Olson, Marvin. P. |
| Contributors | Kwizak, M. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science. (Department of Earth Sciences.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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