•  > JCSDA Home
•  > Meetings
•  > Workshop on Applications of Remotely Sensed Observations in Data Assimilation

Workshop on 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

Schedule

Presentations not linked from this page by 30 July will be linked after 7 August. Alternatively, all available presentations can be found here.

Week 1

	Monday 7/23	Tuesday 7/24	Wednesday 7/25	Thursday 7/26	Friday 7/27
8:30-10:00	Intro to data assimilation (Kalnay)	Intro to least squares (Kalnay)	3D-Var/ 4D-Var (Todling)	Weak constraint 4D-Var (Tremolet)	Kalman Filter & Extended Kalman Filter (Szunyogh)
10:30-12:00	Radiative transfer (Hudson)	Radiative transfer (Hudson)	Review of Satellite Data Products (Li)	Student Introductory Presentations	Student Introductory Presentations
12:00-1:00	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH
1:00-2:30	Intro to Remote Sensing (Barnet)	Intro to Remote sensing (Barnet)	Review of Satellite Data Products (Barnet)   WAVES launch video (.avi)	Student Introductory Presentations	Student Introductory Presentations
3:00-5:00	Exercises (Szunyogh)	Exercises (Szunyogh)		Exercises (Liu)	Student Presentations

Week 2

	Monday 7/30	Tuesday 7/31	Wednesday 8/1	Thursday 8/2	Friday 8/3
8:30-10:00	Ensemble based KF & Implementation of the LETKF on the NCEP Global Forecast System (Szunyogh)	Intro: NCEP (PDF, 4.5MB) (Lord)	Intro: NASA Goddard/GMAO (PDF, 17MB) (Rienecker)	Satellite Data Assimilation at NCEP (PDF, 3.8MB) (Derber)	Non-Gaussian DA (PDF, 1MB) (Fletcher)
10:30-12:00	RTM models (PPT, 560KB) (Kleespies)	Intro: NESDIS-Joint Center Satellite Data Assimilation (PDF, 6.9MB) (Weng)	Ocean Data Assimilation (GMAO) (PDF, 6.5MB) (Rienecker, Keppenne, Kovach)	Satellite Data Assimilation at NCEP (PDF, 3.8MB) (Derber)	Minimization Algorithms and Preconditioning (PDF, 1MB) (Fletcher)
12:00-1:00	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH
1:00-2:30	RTM models and adjoints (PPT, 500KB) (Kleespies)	Introduction: European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) (PDF, 2.7MB) (Tremolet)	Ocean SODA (PDF, 4.6MB) (Carton)	Intro: NRL and Navy (PDF 1.5MB) (Baker)	Exercises (Kostelich)
3:00-5:00	Exercises (Kleespies)	Exercises (Kostelich)	Ocean Observations (Grodsky)	Exercises (Kostelich)	Exercises (Liu)

Week 3

	Monday 8/6	Tuesday 8/7	Wednesday 8/8	Thursday 8/9	Friday 8/10
8:30-10:00	NOAA Satellites Program (PDF, 11MB) (Goldberg)	IR instruments (PDF, 684KB) (Susskind)	Jacobian, TLM and Adjoint (PDF, 1.9MB) (Errico)	Observing System Simulation Experiments (PDF, 4.2MB) (Emmitt)	Review
10:30-12:00	Microwave Instruments & Products (PDF, 4.2MB) (Weng)	IR instruments (PDF, 684KB) (Susskind)	Introduction to the JCSDA CRTM (PDF, 1.2MB) (Han)	Adaptive Observations (Langland)	Review
12:00-1:00	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH
1:00-2:30	WindSat (PDF, 4.8MB) (Bettenhause)	Precipitation (PDF, 4.6MB) (Arkin)	Representers DA (PDF, 331KB) (Miller)	Student final discussions	Student final discussions
3:00-5:00	Exercises (Szunyogh)	Exercises (Szunyogh)	Reduced Space DA and Historical SST (PDF, 4MB) (Kaplan)	Student final discussions	Student final discussions

Preliminary List of Instructors

• Arkin, Phil (UMCP)
• Barnet, Chris (NESDIS)
• Bettenhausen, Mike (NRL)
• Carton, Jim (UMCP)
• Derber, John (NCEP)
• Emmitt, David (Simpson Weather Associates)
• Errico, Ron (NASA)
• Fletcher, Steve (CSU)
• Gaiser, Peter (NRL DC)
• Goldberg, Mitch (NESDIS)
• Grodsky, Semyon (UMCP)
• Han, Yong (NESDIS)
• Hudson, Bob (UMCP)
• Kaplan, Alexey (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)
• Kalnay, Eugenia (UMCP)
• Keppenne, Christian (NASA/GMAO)
• Kleespies, Thomas J. (NESDIS)
• Kovach, Robin (NASA/GMAO)
• Langland, Rolf (NRL Monterey)
• Li, Zhanqing (UMCP)
• Liu, Junjie (UMCP)
• Lord, Steve (NCEP)
• Miller, Bob (OSU)
• Rienecker, Michele (NASA/GMAO)
• Rosmond, Tom (NRL Monterey)
• Susskind, Joel (NASA)
• Szunyogh, Istvan (UMCP)
• Todling, Ricardo (NASA)
• Tremolet, Yannick (ECMWF, currently at NASA)
• Weng, Fuzhong (NOAA/NESDIS
• Zupanski, Milija (CSU)