Welcome to the
Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA)

What is the JCSDA?

The Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA) is dedicated to developing and improving the ability to exploit satellite data more effectively in the United States. It is a distributed and collaborative effort that facilitates the usefulness of billions of satellite observations available daily and shared across several operational agencies in the United States.

JCSDA Vision:

A weather, climate and environmental analysis and prediction community empowered to effectively assimilate increasing amounts of advanced satellite observations from the evolving Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS).

JCSDA Mission:

To accelerate and improve the quantitative use of research and operational satellite data in weather, ocean, climate and environmental analysis and prediction systems. Satellite data volume has increased one-hundred-thousand fold in the past decade, from nearly fifty new instruments.

JCSDA Goals:

• Reduce from two years to one year the average time for operational implementation of new satellite technology
• Increase uses of current satellite data in numerical weather prediction (NWP) models
• Advance the common NWP models and data assimilation infrastructure
• Assess the impacts of data from advanced satellite sensors on weather and climate predictions

JCSDA Announces a Short-Term Visiting Scientist Program for FY2010

The Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation announced today a new short-term visiting scientist program for FY2010. Scientists from institutions of higher education, other nonprofit; for profits; international organizations; foreign institutions, state, local and Indian tribal governments; and Federal agencies, are invited to apply for an appointment of up to 3 months to work on qualifying projects with scientists at the JCSDA. Full details on program.

WMO Workshop on
Impact of Observing Systems

March 19, 2012 - The Fifth WMO Workshop on the Impact of Various Observing Systems on Numerical Weather Prediction will be held in Sedona, Arizona from May 22 - 25, 2012.

Please note that workshop registration is now closed.

• Workshop details;
• WMO Information Page
• Workshop Second Circular

Summer Colloquium on
Data Assimilation Announced;
Application Deadline Extended to 3/16/2012

January 27, 2012 - The JCSDA is pleased to announce a Summer Colloquium on Data Assimilation in Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 24-August 3, 2012. The Colloquium will engage graduate students and researchers with early postdoctoral appointments in the science of satellite data assimilation for the atmosphere, land, and oceans. The program will include lectures by internationally recognized experts in data assimilation and provide an extended opportunity for students to interact with the lecturers in an informal setting. The objective of the program is to foster the development of the next generation of data assimilation scientists to support environmental modeling.

Application deadline extended to March 16, 2012. Complete details & how to apply.

JCSDA Seeks 2 Experienced Scientists for ATMS and CrIS Data Assimilation and OSSE Efforts

June 7, 2011 - The JCSDA is seeking experienced scientists who will complement the data assimilation efforts of the ATMS and CrIS sensors. Complete information.