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Data Assimilation for the Geosciences: From Theory to Application brings together all of the mathematical, statistical, and probability background knowledge needed to formulate data assimilation systems in one place. It includes practical exercises for understanding theoretical formulation and presents some aspects of coding the theory with a toy problem.
The book also demonstrates how data assimilation systems are implemented in larger scale fluid dynamical problems related to the atmosphere, oceans, as well as the land surface and other geophysical situations. It offers a comprehensive presentation of the subject, from basic principles to advanced methods, such as Particle Filters and Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo methods. Additionally, Data Assimilation for the Geosciences: From Theory to Application covers the applications of data assimilation techniques in various disciplines of the geosciences, making the book useful to students, teachers, and research scientists.
1: Introduction
2: Overview of Linear Algebra
3: Univariate Distribution Theory
4: Multivariate Distribution Theory
5: Introduction to Calculus of Variation
6: Introduction to Control Theory
7: Optimal Control Theory
8: Numerical Solutions to Initial Value Problems
9: Numerical Solutions to Boundary Value Problems
10: Introduction to Semi-Lagrangian Advection Methods
11: Introduction to Finite Element Modeling
12: Numerical Modeling on the Sphere
13: Tangent Linear Modeling and Adjoints
14: Observations
15: Non-variational Sequential Data Assimilation Methods
16: Variational Data Assimilation
17: Subcomponents of Variational Data Assimilation
18: Observation Space Variational Data Assimilation Methods
19: Kalman Filter and Smoother
20: Ensemble-Based Data Assimilation
21: Non-Gaussian Variational Data Assimilation
22: Markov Chain Monte Carlo and Particle Filter Methods
23: Applications of Data Assimilation in the Geosciences
24: Solutions to Select Exercise
Dr. Steven Fletcher obtained his Bachelor's degree with honors in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Reading in 1998. He obtained his Master's degree in Numerical Solutions to Differential Equations from the University of Reading in 1999. He obtained his Ph.D. in Mathematics/Data Assimilation in 2004, again from the University of Reading. Since 2004, Dr. Fletcher has been a postdoctoral fellow, Research Scientist II, and is currently a Research Scientist III at the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) at Colorado State University, where he has worked extensively on extending the Gaussian bases for variational and PSAS based data assimilation methods to allow for the minimization of lognormally distributed errors. He has also derived the theory to allow for Gaussian and lognormally distributed errors to be minimized simultaneously through deriving a mixed Gaussian-lognormal multivariate distribution. This mixed distribution has been applied for 3D and 4DVAR theory, for both full field and incremental formulations. Recently, Dr. Fletcher was able to derive a representer based formulation of 4DVAR for the mixed distribution, which is the basis of NAVDAS-AR, the US Navy's numerical weather prediction system. The mixed distribution has also been applied in a retrieval system at CIRA for the retrieval of temperature and mixing ratio values given microwave based brightness temperatures, and it was shown that the mixed approach would obtain better fits to the observations compared to a logarithmic transform and a Gaussian fits all approach. Dr. Fletcher is an active member in the Nonlinear Geophysics focus group of the American Geophysical Union, where he fills the role of the focus group's representative on the program committee for the Annual Fall meeting, which is the largest meeting of geoscientists in the world.
