how does math help prodect the weather?

Answer 1

prodect = predict.

There is a mathematical description of how "the atmosphere works" , in this mathematical description you can find rules like that the air flows from high pressure to low pressure, there is a lot of it in this description.

With math the equations that are involved in the description can be solved. The result can be interpreted by weatherman.

It is nothing more than a lot of formulas that describes the state of the atmosphere.

There are other mathematical descriptions, for instance how far goes a ball when booted straight in the air.

Answer 2

Hi:

To answer your question you need to understand what weather is. The simple answer is that: It the Earth trying to balance it heat and moisture that the Sun's heat generates on the ocean and the lands. Back in the 15th century a man name Boyle had theory that temperature and pressure had some relationship to each each a other. A man named Pascal found that pressure and Volume had a relation to each other and they made a mathematical equation for it . What does this have to do with the weather? Be patience, I get to it. Back in Galileo time, he had a student named Torricelli and they were studying a newly made device called a mercury barometer and he noticed that before stormy weather came in, the mercury in the barometer would drop and just before a storm ended and sunny weather would appear. the mercury would rise again. He correctly guessed that the air pressure was the source { Has a side note: A shopkeeper in the 17th century Germany had a thirty two foot long glass tube enclosed at one end, and about six inches in diameter filled with water with a small boat in the center of it. when he saw the boat in the window of his third story house he would go fishing, and when did n't see it, he would be in his shop working. Can you guess Why? And why thirty two feet of water? Of course he had to remove it . Because the town's people thought he was in league with the Devil. } of the storm

Now somebody came along and put Pasal, Boyle formulas and Torricelli observations together and dicovered that due to air pressure and temperature that water rises a vapor and fall as rain or snow and can turn into ice or hail skeet due to pressure difference because of this that they found that the air will hold a certain amount of water for a certian amount of heat and pressure and had the matematical equations to prove it and they also dicovered that it causes the air to move. During the 17th and the 18th that air pressure science was getting understood along with the science of weather When the telegraph was invented in the 19th century. That was when scienitists were able to study and chart the weather, and forcast it and be able to send warning about severe weather storms coming their way.
Over the course of time and study, they dicovered that there were areas of low and high pressure and were that they were almost circular in pattern As the science advance and more and more weather station were setup across the country

Weathermen need a way to forcast and test their observation and to model the weather However while the math was simple, the amount of data to process was too much for men to do and to have it in time when they need it. and when the electronic computer was invented that was capable of do the calulations and to have it in real time. in the 20th century along with orbiting satellites which speeded things up so weatherman could make accurate forcast at least for a two day in advance Today supercomputers enable weather people to forcast and model the weather base, on current data and past data and later throw a new set of data and see what happen if thing were different and compare it with the future events when they do happen in the future all of which help to better understand the weather. and And studying Areodynamic is also weath

Answer 3

Weather modeling is done with super computers. First you put in the current state of the worlds weather, then you run a bunch of equations to try to predict the future weather. The more data that you start with the better. At first projections were only accurate for a day or two in the future but now they are looking at a week or more with some degree of accuracy.

Take a look at http://www.oar.noaa.gov/weather/t_modeling.html