Is there any — ☺ ? I would hope the book provides some value to readers as it is providing the detailed workings of a particular class of numerical weather prediction (NWP) models, by example. This particular class of models is characterized by the spectral nature of these models, meaning that unknown functions are described by expansion coefficients on known expansion functions.
The book's value thus relates to containing within a single volume material essential and fundamental for NWP. Such material may be dispersed over many volumes and different locations for models that are more sophisticated in many aspects than the model described in this book, but are, generically, of the same fundamental nature as the model described here. In a sense then, it is submitted that the book's value is coming from containing comprehensively and in one place the fundamentals common to global spectral NWP models.
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