School of Sciences
Ciudad Universitaria, Buenos Aires, Argentina

October 27 -  November 7,  2008

Organizers: Dr. Eugenia Kalnay - Dr. Celeste Saulo

Approach:  Theoretical with computer practice. From 9:00 to 17:00 hrs.

Participants Application: Fill up form including personal information, academic background, current position.

Scholarships: Through WWRP/THORPEX support, there will be grants to support the attendance of up to 10 Latin American participants.

Goals:

Provide participants with a solid foundation to understand current approaches for in situ and remotely sensed data assimilation, with a concentration on basic concepts and developments, and simple computational exercises.
Prepare attendants to participate in the Workshop that will take place the following week on 4D-Var and Ensemble Kalman Filter.

 
Preliminary Syllabus:

• Introduction to data assimilation and least squares methods.

• Optimal Interpolation and 3D-Var.

• 4D-Var and Ensemble Kalman Filter.

• Introduction to remote sensing.

• Radiative transfer models and their adjoints.

• Adjoint models.

 

Lectures:

 

Computer Assistant Coordinators:

• Juan Ruiz

• Takemasa Miyoshi

Dr. EUGENIA KALNAY
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science,
University of Maryland.College Park, MD 20742
Telephone: 301 405-5370
Email: ekalnay@atmos.umd.edu

Local Organization chair:

Dra. CELESTE SAULO
Centro de Investigaciones del Mar  y la  Atmósfera
Conicet - UBA
Teléfono: (54)(11) 4787-2693
Email:saulo@cima.fcen.uba.ar