Four-Dimensional Model Assimilation of Data: A Strategy for the Earth System Sciences

by National Research Council, Panel on Model-Assimilated Data Sets for, Division on Earth and Life Studies, et al.

This volume explores and evaluates the development, multiple applications, and usefulness of four-dimensional (space and time) model assimilations of data in the atmospheric and oceanographic sciences and projects their applicability to the earth sciences as a whole. Using the predictive power of geophysical laws incorporated in the general circulation model to produce a background field for comparison with incoming raw observations, the model assimilation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309045363
• ISBN13: 9780309045360
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 88 Pages