Data Assimilation for Atmospheric, Oceanic and Hydrologic Applications (Vol. III)

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxvi
Variational Data Assimilation: Optimization and Optimal Control....Pages 1-53
Data Assimilation for Coupled Modeling Systems....Pages 55-70
Representer-Based Variational Data Assimilation Systems: A Review....Pages 71-81
Adjoint-Free 4D Variational Data Assimilation into Regional Models....Pages 83-114
Convergence of a Class of Weak Solutions to the Strong Solution of a Linear Constrained Quadratic Minimization Problem: A Direct Proof Using Matrix Identities....Pages 115-119
Information Quantification for Data Assimilation....Pages 121-139
Quantification of Forecast Uncertainty and Data Assimilation Using Wiener’s Polynomial Chaos Expansion....Pages 141-176
The Treatment, Estimation, and Issues with Representation Error Modelling....Pages 177-194
Soil Moisture Data Assimilation....Pages 195-217
Surface Data Assimilation and Near-Surface Weather Prediction over Complex Terrain....Pages 219-240
Recent Developments in Bottom Topography Mapping Using Inverse Methods....Pages 241-258
The Impact of Doppler Wind Lidar Measurements on High-Impact Weather Forecasting: Regional OSSE and Data Assimilation Studies....Pages 259-283
A Three-Dimensional Variational Radar Data Assimilation Scheme Developed for Convective Scale NWP....Pages 285-326
Data Assimilation Experiments of Refractivity Observed by JMA Operational Radar....Pages 327-336
Assessment of Radiative Effect of Hydrometeors in Rapid Radiative Transfer Model in Support of Satellite Cloud and Precipitation Microwave Data Assimilation....Pages 337-360
Toward New Applications of the Adjoint Sensitivity Tools in Data Assimilation....Pages 361-382
GPS PWV Assimilation with the JMA Nonhydrostatic 4DVAR and Cloud Resolving Ensemble Forecast for the 2008 August Tokyo Metropolitan Area Local Heavy Rainfalls....Pages 383-404
Validation and Operational Implementation of the Navy Coastal Ocean Model Four Dimensional Variational Data Assimilation System (NCOM 4DVAR) in the Okinawa Trough....Pages 405-427
Stratospheric and Mesospheric Data Assimilation: The Role of Middle Atmospheric Dynamics....Pages 429-454
A Coupled Atmosphere-Chemistry Data Assimilation: Impact of Ozone Observation on Structure of a Tropical Cyclone....Pages 455-466
Adjoint Sensitivity with a Nested Limited Area Atmospheric Model....Pages 467-481
On the Impact of the Diabatic Component in the Forecast Sensitivity Observation Impact Diagnostics....Pages 483-511
Application of Conditional Nonlinear Optimal Perturbation to Target Observations for High-Impact Ocean-Atmospheric Environmental Events....Pages 513-526
Responses of Terrestrial Ecosystem to Climate Change: Results from Approach of Conditional Nonlinear Optimal Perturbation of Parameters....Pages 527-547
Back Matter....Pages 549-553