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Choosing the Right Axis: An Institutional History of the Belgrade Eta Forecast Model (2004)

History of Meteorology
Volume: 1
Pages: 92--98

Publication Date: 2004
Edition Details: Part of a special issue: International Perspectives on the History of Meteorology: Science and Cultural Diversity
Language: English

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Computer Simulation Meteorology Weather forecasting Science and politics Earth sciences Models and modeling in science 20th century, late Yugoslavia

An important dimension of this research was and still is numerical modelling, a cooperative (at least ideally) work and development of algorithms and models designed to solve the equations of atmospheric dynamics: and the most important moments in the development of NWP are associated with American, Russian and Western European research teams. The issue can be raised to what extent has this research, done as it was in the big cold-war super power countries by people like Charney and Arakawa, excluded (or included) work and results of other research teams, those who, for example, had inadequate computing facilities and inadequate funding resources? The question is quite simple: if weather prediction research was a matter of expensive computer equipment and financial support -- as it has been argued by those involved in it -- could it be done on an as-it-were technological and financial periphery, in the countries and institutions that suffered from a chronic lack of resources? My answer to this question will be incomplete of course, as I will merely scratch the surface of one case study, the numerical weather prediction modelling in Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia during 1970s and 1980s. But even with this limitation, my answer will, I hope, point to a fascinating confluence of Yugoslavian weather modelling, needs of the local economy and the regional politics of knowledge. I want to show how this confluence resulted in the now one of the most skillful numerical models of weather prediction in the world, and how the model achieved such success despite the fact that it was designed in a country with erratic science funding and an inadequate computing equipment.

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