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I wonder how meteorologists 'calculate' weather in order to predict weather patterns. I know they use computational models, but after looking around the net, I haven't figured out what equations they use. Do they go with the typical Navier Stokes equations? I'd think meteorology, especially before the time of computational models, must have used something else. Just like piping engineers use the Darcy Weisbach equation, Bernoulli's and mix that with thermodynamics as the primary equations for piping networks (as oposed to the NS equations) I wonder if meteorologists use equations that move up a level, so to speak. Some equations that are broader or more general and easy to use.