Table Of ContentData Assimilation
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William Lahoz Boris Khattatov
Richard Ménard
Editors
Data Assimilation
Making Sense of Observations
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Editors
Dr.WilliamLahoz Dr.BorisKhattatov
NorskInstituttforLuftforskning,Norwegian 373ArapahoeAvenue
InstituteforAirResearch BoulderCO80302
AtmosphericandClimateResearch USA
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Kjeller2007
Norway
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Dr.RichardMénard
EnvironmentCanada
AtmosphericScience&Technology
Directorate
2121Trans-CanadaHighway
DorvalQCH9P1J3
Canada
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Contents
PartI Theory
DataAssimilationandInformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
WilliamLahoz,BorisKhattatov,andRichardMénard
MathematicalConceptsofDataAssimilation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
N.K.Nichols
VariationalAssimilation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
OlivierTalagrand
EnsembleKalmanFilter:CurrentStatusandPotential . . . . . . . . . 69
EugeniaKalnay
ErrorStatisticsinDataAssimilation:EstimationandModelling . . . . 93
MarkBuehner
BiasEstimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
RichardMénard
ThePrincipleofEnergeticConsistencyinDataAssimilation . . . . . . 137
StephenE.Cohn
EvaluationofAssimilationAlgorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
OlivierTalagrand
Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
PeterLynchandXiang-YuHuang
PartII Observations
TheGlobalObservingSystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Jean-NoëlThépautandErikAndersson
AssimilationofOperationalData . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
ErikAnderssonandJean-NoëlThépaut
ResearchSatellites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
WilliamLahoz
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PartIII MeteorologyandAtmosphericDynamics
GeneralConceptsinMeteorologyandDynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
AndrewCharlton-Perez,WilliamLahoz,andRichardSwinbank
TheRoleoftheModelintheDataAssimilationSystem . . . . . . . . . 351
RichardB.Rood
NumericalWeatherPrediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
RichardSwinbank
PartIV AtmosphericChemistry
IntroductiontoAtmosphericChemistryandConstituentTransport . . 409
ValeryYudinandBorisKhatattov
RepresentationandModellingofUncertaintiesinChemistry
andTransportModels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
BorisKhattatovandValeryYudin
ConstituentAssimilation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449
WilliamLahozandQuentinErrera
Inverse Modelling and Combined State-Source Estimation
forChemicalWeather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
HendrikElbern,AchimStrunk,andLarsNieradzik
PartV WiderApplications
OceanDataAssimilation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
KeithHaines
LandSurfaceDataAssimilation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549
PaulR.Houser,GabriëlleJ.M.DeLannoy,andJeffreyP.Walker
AssimilationofGPSSoundingsinIonosphericModels . . . . . . . . . . 599
BorisKhattatov
PartVI TheLongerView
Reanalysis:DataAssimilationforScientificInvestigationofClimate . . 623
RichardB.RoodandMichaelG.Bosilovich
ObservingSystemSimulationExperiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647
MichikoMasutani,ThomasW.Schlatter,RonaldM.Errico,
AdStoffelen,ErikAndersson,WilliamLahoz,JohnS.Woollen,
G.DavidEmmitt,Lars-PeterRiishøjgaardandStephenJ.Lord
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DataAssimilationforOtherPlanets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681
StephenR.Lewis
Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705
Contributors
ErikAndersson EuropeanCentreforMedium-RangeWeatherForecasts
(ECMWF),Reading,UK,[email protected]
MichaelG.Bosilovich NASAGoddardSpaceFlightCenter,Greenbelt,MD,
USA,[email protected]
MarkBuehner MeteorologicalResearchDivision,DataAssimilationand
SatelliteMeteorologySection,EnvironmentCanada,Canada,
[email protected]
AndrewCharlton-Perez DepartmentofMeteorology,UniversityofReading,
Reading,UK,[email protected]
StephenE.Cohn GlobalModelingandAssimilationOffice,NASAGoddard
SpaceFlightCenter,Greenbelt,MD20771,USA,[email protected]
GabriëlleJ.M.DeLannoy GeorgeMasonUniversity,Fairfax,VA,USA;Faculty
ofBioscienceEngineering,GhentUniversity,GhentB-9000,Belgium,
[email protected]
HendrikElbern ResearchCentreJülich,RhenishInstituteforEnvironmental
ResearchattheUniversityofCologne(RIU),Cologne,Germany;Helmholtz
VirtualInstituteforInverseModellingofAtmosphericChemicalComposition
(IMACCO),Cologne,Germany,[email protected]
G.DavidEmmitt SimpsonWeatherAssociates(SWA),Charlottesville,VA,
USA,[email protected]
QuentinErrera BelgianInstituteforSpaceAeronomy,BIRA-IASB,Brussels,
Belgium,[email protected]
RonaldM.Errico NASA/GSFC,Greenbelt,MD,USA;GoddardEarthScience
andTechnologyCenter,UniversityofMaryland,Baltimore,MD,USA,
[email protected]
KeithHaines EnvironmentalSystemsScienceCentre,UniversityofReading,
ReadingRG66AL,UK,[email protected]
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