GEOG Professor, Dr. Shunlin Liang, co-edited the book, "Land Surface Observation, Modeling and Data Assimilation," which will be published by World Scientific on October 23 of this year.  Details are as follows:

"Land Surface Observation, Modeling and Data Assimilation", editted by S. Liang, X. Li and X. Xie, World Scientific, ISBN: 978-981-4472-60-9, 492pp, 2013.(Found on Amazon.com.)

The Chinese version is published by High Education Press (http://www.amazon.cn/%E5%9B%BE%E4%B9%A6/dp/B00DSFJS8O)

The contents are listed below, and more details are available at http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/8768

Contents:

• Observation:
  • Remote Sensing Data Products for Land Surface Data Assimilation System Application (Yunjun Yao, Shunlin Liang and Tongren Xu)
  • Second-Generation Polar-Orbiting Meteorological Satellites of China: The Fengyun 3 Series and Its Applications in Global Monitoring (Peng Zhang)
  • NASA Satellite and Model Land Data Services: Data Access Tutorial (Suhung Shen, Gregory Leptoukh and Hongliang Fang)
• Modeling:
  • Land Surface Process Study and Modeling in Drylands and High-Elevation Regions (Yingying Chen and Kun Yang)
  • Review of Parameterization and Parameter Estimation for Hydrologic Models (Soroosh Sorooshian and Wei Chu)
• Data Assimilation:
  • Assimilating Remote Sensing Data into Land Surface Models: Theory and Methods (Xin Li and Yulong Bai)
  • Estimating Model and Observation Error Covariance Information for Land Data Assimilation Systems (Wade T Crow)
  • Inflation Adjustment on Error Covariance Matrices for Ensemble Kalman Filter Assimilation (Xiaogu Zheng, Guocan Wu, Xiao Liang and Shupeng Zhang)
  • A Review of Error Estimation in Land Data Assimilation Systems (Yulong Bai, Xin Li and Qianlong Chai)
  • An Introduction to Multi-scale Kalman Smoother-Based Framework and Its Application to Data Assimilation (Daniel E Salas and Xu Liang)
• Application:
  • Overview of the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) (Youlong Xia, Brian A Cosgrove, Michael B Ek, Justin Sheffield, Lifeng Luo, Eric F Wood, Kingtse Mo and the NLDAS team)
  • Soil Moisture Data Assimilation for State Initialization of Seasonal Climate Prediction (Wenge Ni-Meister)
  • Assimilation of Remote Sensing Data and Crop Simulation Models for Agricultural Study: Recent Advances and Future Directions (Hongliang Fang, Shunlin Liang and Gerrit Hoogenboom)
  • Simultaneous State-Parameter Estimation for Hydrologic Modeling Using Ensemble Kalman Filter (Xianhong Xie)