Editorial for the Special Issue "Assimilation of Remote Sensing Data into Earth System Models"

Jean-Christophe Calvet (1) , Patricia de Rosnay (2) , Stephen G Penny (3, 4)

1 CNRM - Centre national de recherches météorologiques
2 ECMWF - European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
3 University of Colorado [Boulder]
4 NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

This Special Issue is a collection of papers reporting research on various aspects of coupled data assimilation in Earth system models. It includes contributions presenting recent progress in ocean-atmosphere, land-atmosphere, and soil-vegetation data assimilation.

Keywords: data assimilation; Earth system models; atmospheric models; ocean models; land surface models

Domains: Environmental Sciences; Environmental Engineering; Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Earth Sciences; Meteorology

Jean-Christophe Calvet, Patricia de Rosnay, Stephen G Penny. Editorial for the Special Issue "Assimilation of Remote Sensing Data into Earth System Models". Remote Sensing, 2019, 11 (18), pp.2177. ⟨10.3390/rs11182177⟩. ⟨meteo-03360531⟩