Data Assimilation for Atmospheric, Oceanic and Hydrologic Applications

Sasaki's Pathway to Deterministic Data Assimilation.- Data Assimilation for Numerical Weather Prediction: A Review.- Theoretical and Practical Issues of Ensemble Data Assimilation in Weather and Climate.- Information Measures in Ensemble Data Assimilation.- Real Challenge of Data Assimilation for Tornadogenesis.- Radar Rainfall Estimates for Hydrologic and Landslide Modeling.- High-Resolution QPE System for Taiwan.- Assimilation of Satellite Data in Improving Numerical Simulation of Tropical Cyclones: Progress, Challenge and Development.- Diagnostics for Evaluating the Impact of Satellite Observations.- Impact of the CHAMP Occultation Data on the Rainfall Forecast.- Parameter Estimation Using the Genetic Algorithm in Terms of Quantitative Precipitation Forecast.- Applications of Conditional Nonlinear Optimal Perturbations to Ensemble Prediction and Adaptive Observation.- Study on Adjoint-Based Targeted Observation of Mesoscale Low on Meiyu Front.- Ocean Data Assimilation: A Coastal Application.- Comparison of Ensemble-Based Filters for a Simple Model of Ocean Thermohaline Circulation.- Preconditioning Representer-based Variational Data Assimilation Systems: Application to NAVDAS-AR.- Cycling the Representer Method with Nonlinear Models.- Implementation of the Ensemble Kalman Filter into a Northwest Pacific Ocean Circulation Model.- Particle Filtering in Data Assimilation and Its Application to Estimation of Boundary Condition of Tsunami Simulation Model.- Data Assimilation in Hydrology: Variational Approach.- Recent Advances in Land Data Assimilation at the NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office.- Assimilation of Soil Moisture and Temperature Data into Land Surface Models: A Survey.- Assimilation of a Satellite-Based SoilMoisture Product into a Two-Layer Water Balance Model for a Global Crop Production Decision Support System.