NUMERICAL VARIATIONAL ANALYSIS WITH WEAK CONSTRAINT AND APPLICATION TO SURFACE ANALYSIS OF SEVERE STORM GUST

Abstract

Abstract An investigation of the numerical variational analysis method is made for a case of ?weak constraint? where the subsidiary condition is given in the form of an approximation. The simple example of a system moving with an optimized velocity is used to illustrate the theoretical development. The method is applied to analysis of the National Severe Storms Laboratory mesonetwork data of the severe storm gust that passed over the network on May 31, 1969. Abstract An investigation of the numerical variational analysis method is made for a case of ?weak constraint? where the subsidiary condition is given in the form of an approximation. The simple example of a system moving with an optimized velocity is used to illustrate the theoretical development. The method is applied to analysis of the National Severe Storms Laboratory mesonetwork data of the severe storm gust that passed over the network on May 31, 1969.