A variational assimilation method for satellite and conventional data: development of basic model for diagnosis of cyclone systems

Achtemeier, G.L.; Ochs, Harry T., III; Kidder, Stanley Q.; Scott, Robert W.; Chen, J.; Isard, D.; Chance, B.

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Title

A variational assimilation method for satellite and conventional data: development of basic model for diagnosis of cyclone systems

Author(s)

• Achtemeier, G.L.
• Ochs, Harry T., III
• Kidder, Stanley Q.
• Scott, Robert W.
• Chen, J.
• Isard, D.
• Chance, B.

Issue Date

1986-05

Keyword(s)

• Cyclone systems--diagnosis
• Satellite data
• Atmospheric modelling

Abstract

A summary is presented of the progress toward the completion of a comprehensive diagnostic objective analysis system based upon the calculus of variations. The approach was to first develop the objective analysis subject to the constraints that the final product satisfies the five basic primitive equations for a dry inviscid atmosphere: the two nonlinear horizontal momentum equations, the continuity equation, the hydrostatic equation, and the thermodynamic equation. Then, having derived the basic model, there would be added to it the equations for moist atmospheric processes and the radiative transfer equation.

Publisher

Illinois State Water Survey

Series/Report Name or Number

• ISWS Miscellaneous Publication MP-089
• NASA Contractor Report NASA-CR-3981

Type of Resource

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• Public domain, Federal government document.

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