Atmospheric Modeling, Data Assimilation and Predictability [Modelling]

Eugenia Kalnay

ISBN 10: 0521796296 / ISBN 13: 9780521796293

Editore: Cambridge University Press, 2003

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Ex-library; free endpapers and title page are gone; volume has wear; spine is sunned; tight, text clean. xxii, 341 p., illustrated [o f ifo mnqns] Summary: This comprehensive text on numerical weather prediction covers not only methods for numerical modelling, but also the important related areas of data assimilation and predictability. It incorporates all aspects of environmental computer modelling. Contents: 1. Historical overview; 2. The continuous equations; 3. Discretization of the equations; 4. Introduction to the parameterizations of subgrid-scale physical processes; 5. Data assimilation; 6. Atmospheric predictability and ensemble forecasting; References; Appendix A. The early history of numerical weather prediction; Appendix B. List of acronyms; Appendix C. Coding and checking the linear tangent and adjoint models; Appendix D. Post processing of numerical model output to obtain station weather forecasts.

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• Titolo: Atmospheric Modeling, Data Assimilation and Predictability [Modelling]
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521796296
• ISBN 13: 9780521796293
• Rilegatura: Trade Paperback Original
• Condizione: Ex-Library (Good-)

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Riassunto

This book, first published in 2002, is a graduate-level text on numerical weather prediction, including atmospheric modeling, data assimilation and predictability.

Informazioni sull?autore

Eugenia Kalnay was awarded a Ph.D in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971. Following a position as Associate Professor in the same department, she became Chief of the Global Modeling and Simulation Branch at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (1983-1987). From 1987 to 1997 she was Director of the Environmental Modeling Center (US National Weather Service) and in 1998 was awarded the Robert E. Lowry endowed chair at the University of Oklahoma. In 1999 she became the Chair of the Department of Meteorology at the University of Maryland. Professor Kalnay is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, is the recipient of two gold medals from the US Department of Commerce and the NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement, and has received the Jule Charney Award from the American Meteorological Society. The author of more than 100 peer reviewed papers on numerical weather prediction, data assimilation and predictability, Professor Kalnay is a key figure in this field and has pioneered many of the essential techniques.