Atmospheric Data Analysis

Atmospheric data analysis is the method of transforming the enormous and scattered database of atmospheric observations into the powerful mathematical and physical tools required to meet the growing demand for atmospheric data.

Roger Daley (Author)

9780521458252, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 26 November 1993

472 pages, 103 b/w illus.
23.7 x 19.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.82 kg

"...fills an essential gap in academic meteorological literature. Ample discussion of actual trends in the subject presented in the last chapter, as well as references to very recent results, protect the book against too rapid outdating. Though basically intended for graduate students, this well written and carefully edited position will certainly be a valuable aid also for more advanced professionals in various fields of atmospheric sciences." Krzysztof Haman, Pageoph

Atmospheric analysis is the method of transforming the enormous and scattered database of atmospheric observations into the powerful mathematical and physical tools required to meet the growing demand for atmospheric data. 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 outside atmospheric observation, including atmospheric dynamics and statistics. It outlines the physical and mathematical basis of all aspects of atmospheric analysis. The emphasis is on the theoretical foundation of the subject and most of the development is analytic, but many practical considerations and examples are introduced. There are numerous exercises at the end of each chapter to aid the student in comprehending the material.

1. Introduction
2. Function fitting
3. The method of successive corrections
4. Statistical interpolation - univariate
5. Statistical interpolation - multivariate
6. The initialisation problem
7. Quasi-geostrophic constraints
8. Variational procedures
9. Normal mode initialisation - theory
10. Normal mode initialisation - applications
11. Dynamic initialisation
12. Continuous data assimilation
13. Future directions
Appendixes.

Subject Areas: Atmospheric physics [PHVJ]