An Overview of Atmospheric Data Assimilation

Abstract

Purpose: Convey how weather forecasting models incorporate diverse observational data * Governing Equations * Introduction to Meteorological Observations * Introduction to Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) * Methods of Data Assimilation * Optimal Interpolation (OI) * 3-Dimensional Variational Assimilation (3DVAR) * 4-Dimensional Variational Assimilation (4DVAR) * Kalman Filter

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 20, 2007
Accession Number
ADA515339

Entities

People

  • Bob Wacker
  • Paul Homan

Organizations

  • United States Air Force Academy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Assimilation
  • Atmospheres
  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Covariance
  • Equations
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Filters
  • Grids
  • Kalman Filters
  • Pressure Gradients
  • Three Dimensional
  • Weather Forecasting

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Systems Analysis and Design