Which of the following can cause errors in forecasts made by numerical weather prediction models?
a. computers cannot predict the short-range future
b. the model captures too many fine scale details
c. there is too much data to predict the weather
d. inadequate representation of pertinent meteorological processes
e. too many different types of data are assimilated in a model
ANSWER: d
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