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Objective analysis is a process by which meteorological observations distributed in space and time, and from different observing systems, are combined with other information—predictions from previous analyses, or perhaps climatology—to form a numerical representation of the state of the atmosphere. This representation takes the form of digital values of the pressure, temperature, wind, and moisture at a set of regularly spaced grid points covering the domain of interest, or as the coefficients of series of expansions representing the variables.
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McPherson, R.D. (1986). Operational Objective Analysis Techniques and Potential Applications for Mesoscale Meteorology. In: Ray, P.S. (eds) Mesoscale Meteorology and Forecasting. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-935704-20-1_8
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