Edward Bolin (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. ORIGINAL 1954 Publication; softcovers, staple-bound; ex-corporate library; in very good condition. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. (2016). Slim 8vo. SIGNED by Bolin. Good, clean textblock. Light bumping to joint ends of gently rubbed boards with slightest scraping to forecorners. VG. Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Mild wear to edges and surface, mostly to spine. Owner's name front cover, no other markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. LORENZ, Edward N. "Available Potential Energy and the Maintenance of the General Circulation" (pp 157-167); BOLIN, Bert. "Numerical Forecasting with the Barotropic Method" (pp27-49); P. Bergthorsson et al, "Routine Forecasting with the Barotropic Model" (pp 272-274). AND Jule Charney, "The Use of Primitive Equations of Motion in Numerical Prediction" (pp 22-26) all in Tellus, a Quarterly Journal of Geophysics. Svenska Geofysiska Foreningen. Stockholm, Esselte AB, Vol 7, 1955. 522pp. Provenance: Geophysikalischer Dienste" rubber stamp on the front pastedown. 24x18 cm. Cloth-backed decorated paper boards. There is a ghost-remnant of a small (removed) call number label on spine bottom. VG condition. [++] The Bolin and Bergthorson papers concern the accuracy of the first operational weather forecasts. [++] Edward Lorenz (whose paper here received 1500 citations) is to be remembered for his work on the circulation of the atmosphere (particularly for  "The Nature and Theory of the General Circulation of the Atmosphere") and also for his foundation of chaos theory (reported first in  "Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow"  1963) and then further famously to the butterfly effect (1969). [++] The Charney paper cited 550+ times: "An obstacle to the use of the primitive hydrodynamical equations for numerical prediction is that the initial wind and pressure fields determined by conventional means give rise to spurious large-amplitude inertio-gravitational oscillations which obscure the meteorologically significant large-scale motions. It is shown how this difficulty may be overcome by the use of a relationship between wind and pressure which enables one to determine these fields in such a manner that the noise motions do not arise. The method is illustrated by a numerically computed example."--abstract from paper.