Atmospheric Satellite Observations

Variation Assimilation and Quality Assurance

Xiaolei Zou
Elsevier S&T
324 pages
ISBN-13: 9780128209509
March 2020

Atmospheric Satellite Observations: Variation Assimilation and Quality Assurance provides an invaluable reference for satellite data assimilation. Topics covered include linear algebra, frequently used statistical methods, the interpolation role of function fitting, filtering when dealing with real observations, minimization in data assimilation systems, 3D-Var and the inverse problem it solves, 4D-Var and adjoint techniques, and much more. The book concludes with satellite observation of hurricanes.