Medium-Range Weather Prediction: The European Approach |
 | Author: Austin Woods
Publisher: Springer
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 3,991,153
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 270
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6 x 0.6
ISBN: 0387269282
Dewey Decimal Number: 551.654
EAN: 9780387269283
ASIN: 0387269282
Publication Date: September 7, 2005
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This book provides an overview of the early years of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts and reviews the work of the institute over the past 30 years. As such it describes the European approach to medium-range weather forecasting.
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Distorted History of Variational Data Assimilation March 22, 2009
Ionel M. Navon (Tallahasee, FL, USA)
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Medium-Range Weather Prediction: The European Approach
This book should include a correction ( errata) related to its distorted account on the historical start of 4-D variational data assimilation.
It was the "mathematician" Francois Xavier le Dimet that pioneered the introduction of the optimal control concept of using the adjoint of the forward model to obtain gradient of the cost function with respect to the control variable in 1981 to the atmospheric science community.
It was first received with reluctance and incredulity but later fully embraced.
This was fully acknowledged by the late Dr Tony Hollingsworth.
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