The ENIAC Integrations

• Charney, Fjörtoft and von Neumann, 1950:
  Numerical Integration of the Barotropic Vorticity Equation
  Tellus, 2, 237-254. PDF
• Geroge W Platzman, 1979:
  The ENIAC Computations of 1950 -- Gateway to Numerical Weather Prediction
  Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., 60, 302-312. PDF.
• Peter Lynch, 2008: The ENIAC Forecasts: A Recreation.
  Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., 89, 45-55. PDF.
• Peter Lynch & Owen Lynch, 2008: Forecasts by PHONIAC. Weather, Accepted, 2008. HTML. PDF.

ENIAC forecast run on a cell-phone

Poster for IUGG XXIV General Assembly, Perugia, July, 2007. PDF

Visitors and some participants in the 1950 ENIAC computations. Left to right: Harry Wexler, John von Neumann, M. H. Frankel, Jerome Namias, John Freeman, Ragnar Fjörtoft, Francis Reichelderfer and Jule Charney (© MIT Museum). PNG

MatLab program eniac.m to integrate the BVE.

MatLab program GetICs.m to interpolate analysis to ENIAC grid.

4-panel result for ENIAC Case 1. PDF

4-panel result for ENIAC Case 2. PDF

4-panel result for ENIAC Case 3. PDF

4-panel result for ENIAC Case 4. PDF

ENIAC: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer
by Scott McCartney. Berkley Books, New York.

Updated February, 2008.