WWRP/THORPEX WORKSHOP on 4D-VAR and
ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER INTER-COMPARISONS

BUENOS AIRES - ARGENTINA, 10-13 NOVEMBER 2008

PRESENTATIONS

 

Last Updated: 12 December 2008

lectures also availables:  ftp://ftp.cima.fcen.uba.ar/pub/4dvarenkf

Monday 10 November
 
  Session 1: Introductory review
    Posters
    Status of 4D-Var: pdf   ppt  E. Andersson (ECMWF)
    Status of EnKF pdf  P. Houtekamer (EC)
 
  Session 2: Balance
   

Posters

   

Chair: R. Errico (NASA) 
Consideration of Dynamical Balances pdf  ppt

    Sources of Imbalances and Treatments
   

Balance in 4DVAR pdf  ppt   S. Polavarapu* (EC)

   

Balance in EnKF  pdf   ppt     J. Kepert (BOM)

    Discussions   pdf  ppt
 
Tuesday 11 November
 
  Session 3: Issues of nonlinearity and non-gaussianity
  Chair: M. Bocquet (Universite Paris-Est and INRIA)
    Posters
    Issues of nonlinearity and non-gaussianity. pdf ppt  M. Bocquet
    How does 4DVAR handle this ? pdf  ppt M. Fisher (ECMWF)
    How do Kalman Filters handle this ? pdf  SC. Yang *
  
(National Central University, Taiwan)
     Discussions pdf
 
  Session 4: Model error and data assimilation
  Chair: C. Snyder (MMM/NCAR) *
    Posters
    Treatment of model error in 4DVAR. pdf Y. Tremolet (ECMWF)
    Treatment of model error in EnKF.  pdf  E. Kalnay * (U of Maryland)
    Discussions pdf
 
Wednesday 12 November
 
  Session 5: Background error estimation
  Chair: R. Todling (NASA)
    Posters
    Filtering of variances and correlations by local spatial averaging.  pdf  ppt L. Berre (Meteo-France)
    Schur product techniques. pdf  ppt T. Hamill (NOAA)
    Flow adaptive correlation localization.   pdf C. Bishop (NRL)
    Discussions pdf
 
  Session 6: Computational Issues
  Chair: R. Gelaro (NASA)
    Posters
    Computational issues in general. pdf  ppt A. Lorenc (Met Office)
    Computational issues for a variational system. pdf  Y. Sato (NCEP)
    An EnKF perspective (any fundamental issues or pitfalls?).
pdf
 ppt  J. Whitaker (NOAA), TBC
    Discussions  pdf
 
Thursday 13 November
   
  Session 7: Validation and intercomparations
  Chair: F.  Zhang (Penn State University)
    Posters
    Validation (proper interpretation of various metrics).   pdf  ppt  O. Talagrand* (LMD, Paris)
    VAR/En_KF intercomparison for limited area mesoscale models. pdf  F. Zhang
    Appropriate comparisons of full systems.  pdf  ppt  M. Buehner (EC)
    Discussions pdf
 
  Session 8: Synergistic
  Chair: I. Szunyogh (U. of Maryland)
    Posters
    Synergistic approaches   pdf  I. Szunyogh
    How 4DVAR can benefit from or contribute to EnKF (a 4DVAR perspective).  pdf  D. Barker (NCAR)*
    How EnKF can benefit from or contribute to 4DVAR (an EnKF perspective). pdf  Miyoshi * (JMA)
    Discussions pdf
 

* : Lecturer at the Intensive Course on Data Assimilation