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Great storm on 1987 (data ignored from weather station)

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  • 07-03-2008 12:10am
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    GarfieldConnoll
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    Hi,

    I have it in my head that one of the reasons the great storm of 1987 was underestimated was that the atmospheric computer model that was in use ignored data from a buoy in the English Channel on the assumption the data was erroneous.

    Can anyone provide an external reference to this?

    Thanks,

    Garfield.


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    mike65
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    Not sure about that, a programme discussed elsewhere on this board covered the 87 storm and concluded that it was a lack of sophisicated predictive modeling software that gave the Met Office a bum steer. The depression looked like it was going to track furthur south and not be as powerful but the jet-streams influence was underestimated. Or something like that.

    Mike.


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    Sponge Bob
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    and the Brits and French and Americans had retired their weather ships by 1987 but not deployed their bouys .

    They have now, simply click on the number :)

    http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/maps/United_Kingdom.shtml


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