Operational Weather Forecasting

Advanced undergraduate and graduate students of meteorology should read this textbook as a practical guidance in understanding weather forecasting especially for operational needs. This textbook discuss about the nature of weather forecasting problem, observation data transmission and processing, basic principles of NWP models, designing operational NWP systems, the role of human forecaster, longer time ranges of forecasting, and forecast verification. These material of the book give a very practical approach ,even using real-life case studies, about operational weather forecasting to the readers.