Weather Forecasting Applications
Data assimilation is a concept encompassing any method for combining observations of variables like temperature, and atmospheric pressure into numerical models as the ones used to predict weather.
In weather forecasting there are 2 main types of data assimilation: 3 dimensional (3DDA) and 4 dimensional (4DDA). In 3DDA only those observations available at the time of analysis are used. In 4DDA the future observations are included (thus, time dimension added).
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