title book:Land Surface Observation, Modeling and Data AssimilationThe Ultimate Guide for Making Your Clothes Work for You

by by Shunlin Liang, Xin Li, Xianhong Xie, Shunlin Liang, Xin Li, Xianhong Xie

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2013: Year

Language English
number pages : 492(Print version – electronic version)

9814472603, 9789814472609

Publisher:World Scientific Publishing Company

type: pdf
size:22.00

This book is unique in its ambitious and comprehensive coverage of earth system land surface characterization, from observation and modeling to data assimilation, including recent developments in theory and techniques, and novel application cases. The contributing authors are active research scientists, and many of them are internationally known leading experts in their areas, ensuring that the text is authoritative.

This book comprises four parts that are logically connected from data, modeling, data assimilation integrating data and models to applications. Land data assimilation is the key focus of the book, which encompasses both theoretical and applied aspects with various novel methodologies and applications to the water cycle, carbon cycle, crop monitoring, and yield estimation. Readers can benefit from a state-of-the-art presentation of the latest tools and their usage for understanding earth system processes. Discussions in the book present and stimulate new challenges and questions facing today’s earth science and modeling communities. Readership: Graduate students and scientists in remote sensing, hydrology, ecology, environment and other earth sciences.