For Michael Mckintyre's vision of future global forecasting see-
http://www.atm.damtp.cam.ac.uk/peopl...n-of-future.ps
http://www.atm.damtp.cam.ac.uk/people/mem/oldftp/
(published in the Bergen symposium volume 'Lifecycles of Extratropical Cyclones' ,AMS 1999,
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david
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