Applications of Remotely Sensed Observations in Data Assimilation

Sponsored by the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation

University of Maryland, July 23-August 10, 2007

Syllabus

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Lectures

E. Kalnay (UMCP), Introduction to Data Assimilation and Least Squares Methods (revised)
R. Hudson (UMCP), Radiative Transfer (RT)
Ch. Barnet (NESDIS), Intro to Remote Sensing I., Intro to Remote Sensing II., Intro to Remote Sensing III., Movie: WAVES launch(11MB)
Z. Li (UMCP), Review of Satellite Data Products
R. Todling (NASA), 3D-Var/4D-Var
Y. Trémolet (ECMWF, NASA), Weak Constraint 4D-Var, Intro ECMWF, Incremental 4D-Var
J. Liu (UMCP), 3D-Var exercise,
I. Szunyogh (UMCP), Exercise, Kalman Filtering: Part I, Kalman Filtering: Part II., Implementation of the LETKF on the NCEP Global Forecast System, Verification
T. Kleespies (NESDIS), RTM models and adjoints, Adjoint Coding, Exercise
S. Lord, Intro: NCEP
F. Weng (NESDIS), Intro: NESDIS-Joint Center Satellite Data, MW instruments & products
M. Rienecker(NASA), Intro: NASA Goddard/GMAO, Ocean DA
S. Grodsky(UMCP),Ocean Observations
J. Carton (UMCP), Ocean SODA
J. Derber (NCEP), Sat. Data Assimilation at NCEP
C. Bishop (NRL), Introduction to Data Assimilation Research at NRL
E. Kostelich (ASU), Exercise I, Exercise II
S. Fletcher (CSU)), Non-gaussian DA & Minim. Alg. and Preconditioning
M. Goldberg (NESDIS), NOAA Sat program
M. Bettenhause (NRL), WindSat
J. Susskind Joel (NASA) Basic AIRS, Results using AIRS
P. Arkin(UMCP), Precipitation
R. Errico (NASA), Jacobian, TLM and Adjoint
Y Han (NESDIS), Intro to the JCSDA CRTM
B. Miller (OSU), Representers DA
Kaplan (LDE Observatory) Reduced space DA and historical SST
D. Emitt (SWA) OSSE

Participants

Eric Bayler (NOAA/NESDIS), eric.bayler (at) noaa.gov
Jonathan Beezley (Univ. of Colorado, NCAR), jon.beezley.math (at) gmail.com, ×
Themis Chronis (GHCC/MSFC), chrontx (at) nsstc.nasa.gov, ×
Jinyang Du (USDA-HRSL), jinyang.du (at) ars.usda.gov, ×
Antonio Fetter (COAS/OSO), tfetter (at) coas.oregonstate.edu, ×
Sebastien Garrigues (UMD/ESIC), garrigue (at) gsfc.nasa.gov, ×
Mei Han (NASA/GSFC), han (at) agnes.gsfc.nsa.gov,
Daven Henze (Caltech), daven (at) caltech.edu,
Lide Jiang (Univ. of Del.), leonjld (at) udel.edu, ×
David Kuhl (UMD), dkuhl (at) umd.edu, ×
Hailong Liu (UMCP), hailong (at) wam.umd.edu,
Yan Luo (CREW/IGES), yluo (at) cola.iges.org,
Will McCarty (NASA), will.mccarty (at) nasa.gov, ×
Martina Ricko (UMD), mricko (at) umd.edu,
Alok Sahoo (GMU), aksahoo2004 (at) gmail.com,
Joseph Santanello, joseph.a.santanello (at) nasa.gov, ×
Zan A. Stine (UC-Berkeley), zan (at) atmos.berkeley, ×
Zhibin Sun (UMBC), sunzhib1 (at) umbc.edu, ×
Liku Wang (QSS/NOAA), likun.wang (at) noaa.gov, ×
Segayle Walford (Howard U.), walford02 (at) hotmail.com, ×
Chris Woods (JPL,Caltech), christopher.p.woods (at) jpl.nasa.gov, ×
Shu-Chih Yang (UMD,NASA), scyang (at) atmos.umd.edu,
M. Tugrul Yilmaz (GMU), myilmaz1 (at) gmu.edu,
Yaping Xiao (Univ. of New Hamp.), yxiao (at) gust.sr.unh.edu, ×
Jiayu Zhon (NWS/OST), jiayu.zhon (at) noaa.gov,