PRESENTATIONS

 Intensive Data Assimilation Course
October 27 - November 7, 2008
Aula Magna, Pavilion 1, Ciudad Universitaria
Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

Last Updated: December 15,   2008

Teaching  Material

Data Assimilation  of Atmospheric modeling, data assimilation and predictability, (CH5).
Eugenia Kalnay.  Cambridge University Press, 2003.

 

First Week Lectures

 
Intro to Data Assimilation (Kalnay) Kalnay Intro DataAssim Oct2008 Part1.pdf
Intro to least squares (Kalnay Kalnay IntroDataAssimOct2008Part2.pdf
Intro to Optimal Interpolation (Kalnay) Kalnay_3_Optimal_Interpolation.pdf
Intro to 3D-Var (Kalnay) Kalnay_4_VariationalAssimilation.pdf
  Radiative transfer (Saulo) Saulo_RTmodels.pdf
Intro to Remote Sensing (Velasco) Velasco_RemoteSensing.pdf
3D-Var / 4D-Var (Kalnay) Kalnay_5_4D-Var.pdf
Intro to Kalman Filter and EnKF (Kalnay) Kalnay_6_EKF_EnKF.pdf
LETKF (Miyoshi) LETKF.pdf
Review (Kalnay) Kalnay-Ideas-UMDLETKF.pdf
 

Second Week Lectures

 
EnKF/4D-Var at JMA (Miyoshi)
Objective Validation (Talagrand)
Information content (Cardinali)
Data Impacts (Herdies)
Model error in DA (Hanea)
Coupled ocean/atmos DA (Yang)
ECMWF DA (Cardinali)
Hybrid DA (Barker)
Adjoint models (Hanea & Talagrand)
Balance (Polavarapu)
Questions & Answers (Kalnay)
Nonlinearity and Gaussianity (Snyder)
Bayesian DA&QC  (Lorenc)
 
 Exercises:
Exercises: Lorenz model   (Ruiz/Miyoshi)
Exercises: 3D-Var (SPEEDY)  (Ruiz/Miyoshi)
Exercises: LETKF (SPEEDY) (Ruiz/Miyoshi)

Other Posted Lectures

 
 

Downloaded from Chaos and Weather (C&W):
http://www.weatherchaos.umd.edu/workshop/index.php

 

http://www.atmos.umd.edu/~ekalnay/AOSC614/CH5-3_%203DVar.pdf

 

http://www.atmos.umd.edu/~ekalnay/AOSC614/CH5-4_4DVAR_SCYEK.pdf

 

http://www.atmos.umd.edu/~ekalnay/AOSC614/CH5-5EnKFclass_Hong_EK.pdf

 

http://www.atmos.umd.edu/~ekalnay/AOSC614/Miyoshi3DVar.pdf

 

http://www.weatherchaos.umd.edu/workshop/Junjie-3D-Var_exercise.pdf

 

http://www.weatherchaos.umd.edu/workshop/Szunyogh_Exercises.pdf

 

http://www.weatherchaos.umd.edu/workshop/Szunyogh_KalmanFiltering2.pdf

 

http://www.weatherchaos.umd.edu/workshop/Hudson_Intro_rad_trans.ppt

 

http://www.weatherchaos.umd.edu/workshop/Han_CRTM_lecture.pdf

  http://www.weatherchaos.umd.edu/workshop/Derber_UMD_workshop_2007.pdf
 

http://www.weatherchaos.umd.edu/workshop/Goldberg_Sat_program_overview.pdf

 

http://www.weatherchaos.umd.edu/workshop/Arkin_precipitation.pdf

  http://4dvarenkf.cima.fcen.uba.ar/course/download/LorencBayesianAssimilationQualityControl.pdf

Lecturers

 
 

Dale Barker (UK Met Office and UCAR)

 

Carla Cardinali (ECMWF)

 

Remus Hanea (TNO Built Environment and Geosciences and
                    Delft University of Technology)

  Dirceu Herdies (CPTEC/INPE)
 

Eugenia Kalnay (U. of  Maryland)

  Andrew Lorenc (UKMO)
 

Takemasa Miyoshi (JMA)

 

Soroja Polavarapu (Environment Canada)

  Juan Ruiz (CIMA/U. of Buenos Aires)
  Celeste Saulo (CIMA/U. of  Buenos Aires)
 

Chris Snyder (UCAR)

 

Oliver Talagrand (LMD/CNRS)

  Ines Velazco (U. of Buenos Aires)
 

Shu-Chi Yang (National Central University. Taiwan)