The Origin and Rise of Numerical Weather Prediction

The first known effort to compute atmospheric changes by physical methods was recorded by Felix M. Exner (1908). Exner was a professor of geophysics at the University of Vienna and the author of a widely circulated book on dynamic meteorology. His first calculations of this type were made at a time when very little was known about atmospheric circulations above the ground and they were restricted to low levels and a small area. Exner’s computations, previously almost completely unknown, are still being investigated in Germany and, it is hoped, may be reviewed and published in detail again within the next few years.

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