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

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 process synthesizes diverse, temporarily inconsistent, and spatially incomplete observations from worldwide land, sea, and space data acquisition systems into a coherent representation of an evolving earth system.
The book concludes that this subdiscipline is fundamental to the geophysical sciences and presents a basic strategy to extend the application of this subdiscipline to the earth sciences as a whole.

Product details

• Authors: Commission on Geosciences Environment an, Commission on Geosciences Environment and Resources, Division On Earth And Life Studies, National Research Council, Panel on Model-Assimilated Data Sets for Atmospheric and Oceanic Research
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.1991
• EAN: 9780309045360
• ISBN: 978-0-309-04536-0
• No. of pages: 88
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology