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Mesoscale Classifications: Their History and Their Application to Forecasting

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Mesoscale Meteorology and Forecasting

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So-called synoptic meteorology is the study of meteorological data collected and transmitted by a network of weather stations. The Glossary of Meteorology (Huschke, 1959) defines “synoptic” as referring to “meteorological data obtained simultaneously over a wide area for the purpose of presenting a comprehensive and nearly instantaneous picture of the state of the atmosphere.” Thus, to be synoptic, weather observations must be made simultaneously; the areal extent or horizontal scale of the station network is not specified.

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  1. NOAA/ERL National Severe Storms Laboratory, 73069, Norman, OK, USA

    Peter S. Ray

  2. Dept. of Meteorology and Supercomputer Computations Research Institute, Florida State University, 32306, Tallahassee, FL, USA

    Peter S. Ray

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Fujita, T.T. (1986). Mesoscale Classifications: Their History and Their Application to Forecasting. In: Ray, P.S. (eds) Mesoscale Meteorology and Forecasting. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-935704-20-1_2

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