Inverse Problems in Atmospheric Constituent Transport
Inverse Problems in Atmospheric Constituent Transport
I. G. Enting, Division Atmospheric Research CSIRO, Australia
June 2002
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Hardback
9780521812108
This book describes mathematical techniques for interpreting measurements of greenhouse gases in order to learn about their sources and sinks. The majority of the book gives general descriptions of techniques, but the last third covers the applications to carbon dioxide, methane, chlorofluorocarbons and other gases implicated in global change.
- The subject area is very topical given the current global climate change debate
- This is the first book to comprehensively cover this area
- Ian Enting is one of the world's leading experts on this subject
Product details
June 2002Hardback
9780521812108
410 pages
256 × 183 × 25 mm
1kg
54 b/w illus. 12 tables
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Table of Contents
- Part I. Principles:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Atmospheric transport and transport models
- 3. Estimation
- 4. Time series estimation
- 5. Observations of atmospheric composition
- 6. The sources and sinks
- 7. Problem formulation
- 8. Ill-conditioning
- 9. Analysis of model error
- 10. Green's functions and synthesis inversion
- 11. Time-stepping inversions
- 12. Non-linear inversion techniques
- 13. Experimental design
- Part II. Recent Applications:
- 14. Global carbon dioxide
- 15. Global methane
- 16. Halocarbons and other global-scale studies
- 17. Regional inversions
- 18. Constraining atmospheric transport
- 19. Conclusions
- References
- Appendix A. Notation
- Appendix B. Numerical data
- Appendix C. Abbreviations and acronyms
- Appendix D. Glossary
- Appendix E. Data source acknowledgements
- Problems.
