Abstract:
See samples from the first 30 years of numerical computation and visualization
in atmospheric science.Lewis Fry Richardson published Weather Prediction by
Numerical Process in 1922. He imagined a stadium filled with people, each
equipped with a slide rule and tasked with calculating a small part of the
overwhelmingly large problem. And this symphony of calculation would
... perhaps
lead to an answer to the problem.
With the arrival of early supercomputers, researchers found the answer and
began formulating the first electonic computations of the global climate
system, building largely upon the equations developed by Dr. Richardson. It
wasn't long after when the pioneers in this endeavor wanted to visualize their
results. Here are some samples of their early work, done on film, showcasing
the first thirty years of numerical computation of our Earth System 
