Dynamic Meteorology: Data Assimilation Methods

by Lennart Bengtsson (editor), M. Ghil (Editor), E. Kallen (Editor)

An Overview of Meteorological Data Assimilation.- A Review of Methods for Objective Analysis.- Normal Mode Initialization.- Assimilation of Asynoptic Data and the Initialization Problem.- Applications of Estimation Theory to Numerical Weather Prediction.- Convergence of Assimilation Procedures.- Some Climatological and Energy Budget Calculations Using the FGGE III-b Analyses During January 1979.- Appendix Provisional Report on Calculation of Spatial Covariance and Autocorrelation of the Pressure Field.- A. Eliassen.

344 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1981