Ragnar Fjørtoft
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ragnar Fjørtoft was an internationally recognized Norwegian meteorologist. He was part of a Princeton, New Jersey team that in 1950 performed the first successful numerical weather prediction using the ENIAC electronic computer. He was also a professor of meteorology at the University of Copenhagen and director of the Norwegian Meteorological Institute.
Ragnar Fjørtoft's Published Works
Published Works
- On the Changes in the Spectral Distribution of Kinetic Energy for Twodimensional, Nondivergent Flow (1953) (558)
- On a Numerical Method of Integrating the Barotropic Vorticity Equation (1952) (115)
- Stability Properties of Large-Scale Atmospheric Disturbances (1951) (25)
- On the Use of Space-Smoothing in Physical Weather Forecasting (1955) (22)
- ON THE INTEGRATION OF A SYSTEM OF GEOSTROPHICALLY BALANCED PROGNOSTIC EQUATIONS (1961) (10)
- On the control of kinetic energy of the atmosphere by external heat sources and surface friction (1960) (3)
- STATISTICAL-DYNAMICAL METEOROLOGICAL PREDICTIONS. (1964) (0)
- LARGE-SCALE SPECTRAL ENERGY CHANGES IN BARO TROPIC AND BAROCLINIC MOTIONS, (1963) (0)
- A prediction experiment with filtered equations (preliminary report) (1965) (0)
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