The ocean surface wind mediates exchanges between the ocean and the atmosphere.
These air–sea exchange processes are critical for understanding and predicting …

Atmospheric Data Analysis is intended to fill a void in the atmospheric science literature and
curricula. The book is self contained, and includes topics important in several other fields …

A variational data assimilation and parameter estimation method for a reduced gravity model
is developed. The method is applied to the equatorial Pacific Ocean. In the variational …

Publisher Summary This chapter provides a review of current operational practice and of
advanced data assimilation techniques in meteorology. Numerical models can be used to …

This paper proposes a new method of dual-Doppler radar analysis based on a variational
approach. In it, a cost function, defined as the distance between the analysis and the …

The Special Sensor Microwave Imagers (SSM/I) aboard three DMSP satellites have
provided a large dataset of surface wind speeds over the global oceans from July 1987 to …

Satellite scatterometer observations of the ocean surface wind speed and direction improve
the depiction of storms at sea. Over the ocean, scatterometer surface winds are deduced …

The use of adjoint equations is proving to be invaluable in many areas of meteorological
research. Unlike a forecast model which describes the evolution of meteorological fields …

The utility of the anelastic vertical vorticity equation in a weak-constraint (least squares error)
variational dual-Doppler wind analysis procedure is explored. The analysis winds are …

In variational data assimilation, optimal ingestion of the observational data, and optimal use
of prior physical and statistical information involve the choice of numerous weighting …