Weather forecasting

 

Weather Forecasting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_forecasting
"The chaotic nature of the atmosphere, the massive computational power required to solve the equations that describe the atmosphere, error involved in measuring the initial conditions, and an incomplete understanding of atmospheric processes mean that forecasts become less accurate as the difference in current time and the time for which the forecast is being made (the range of the forecast) increases."
- how analogous is that to investing? if it's analogous, how should that affect investors?

Books about Weather / Meteorology

Books I've found on Amazon:
Meteorology Today by C. Donald Ahrens
The Weather Revolution
Atmosphere, Climate, and Change
Meteorology for Scientists and Engineers
Introduction to Theoretical Meteorology
A First Course in Atmospheric Thermodynamics
An Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology, Fourth Edition
A Short Course in Cloud Physics
Atmospheric Science, Second Edition: An Introductory Survey
The Atmosphere: An Introduction to Meteorology

 


Invisible in the Storm: The Role of Mathematics in Understanding Weather
http://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Storm-M ... 578&sr=1-1
Review: http://www.theactuary.com/arts/book-review-september/
Review: http://www.harvard.com/book/invisible_i ... g_weather/
Review: http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/ ... -endeavour

"forecasters would have to live with the fact that very small uncertainties in our data of what the weather is like now can lead to very large errors in the calculations of the forecast a few days ahead" [...] There are "many detailed interactions, and there are degrees of unpredictability. But there are also many stabilising mechanisms..."