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Engineering, Energy and Architecture Set
coordinated by
Lazaros E. Mavromatidis
Volume 6
Numerical Weather Prediction and Data Assimilation
Petros Katsafados
Elias Mavromatidis
Christos Spyrou
First published 2020 in Great Britain and the United States by ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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ISBN 978-1-78630-141-3
Preface
This book reflects the need to provide fundamental knowledge about theoretical and applied numerical weather prediction (NWP) and data assimilation (DA). It has been written to support undergraduates and graduates in atmospheric or Earth sciences and introduce students to elementary atmospheric dynamics and modeling, finite difference methods, numerical parameterizations, and optimization methods. This book has a more introductory and applied approach to the methods and techniques for NWP. It also includes essential materials for meteorological DA and modeling of the desert dust cycle in the atmospheric environment. Emission patterns, advection methods and deposition processes are all deployed in the chapter describing the desert dust cycle. The final chapter consists of real case studies simulating extreme weather events and a dust outbreak in hindcasting, nowcasting and forecasting modes.
This book is divided into six main chapters and two appendices. Apart from a brief introduction to NWP and DA in the Introduction, the theoretical material is covered in Chapters 1–4. The primitive equations governing the main atmospheric motions are analytically presented in Chapter 1, and the methods of solutions and finite difference schemes are included in Chapter 2. The implementation of the primitive equations on grid structures with boundary condition treatment is presented in Chapter 3. DA including successive correction methods and the variational approach with simple examples are introduced in Chapter 4. Chapter 5 is devoted to the analysis and modeling of desert dust processes, as well as a review of the parameterizations of dust feedbacks on climate. Finally, the simulations of three extreme weather events