Open AccessAspects of data assimilation peculiar to space weather forecasting
Author(s) -
Siscoe George,
Solomon Stanley C.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
space weather
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.254
H-Index - 56
ISSN - 1542-7390
DOI - 10.1029/2005sw000205
Subject(s) - data assimilation , weather forecasting , meteorology , space weather , weather prediction , space (punctuation) , numerical weather prediction , assimilation (phonology) , environmental science , computer science , model output statistics , climatology , geography , geology , linguistics , philosophy , operating system
Data assimilation in space weather forecasting is necessary but differs in important respects from terrestrial weather forecasting. These differences arise in part from the relative sparsity of data in space weather and from relatively direct driving of space weather phenomena. They present opportunities for space weather forecasting to add new data assimilation techniques to those developed in terrestrial weather forecasting.