Data Assimilation
Projects Overview
The Data Assimilation Projects - run by the UK National Centre for Earth Observation - focus on developing emerging data assimilation techniques for use with highly complex climate models and/or earth observation data.
This is done by tackling a broad range of specific challenges in the field: from improving measurements of snow cover derived from satellites, to simultaneously assimilating atmospheric and oceanic data, to improving the estimates of surface vegetation and carbon fluxes.
The projects are divided into three separate initiatives... more
News
Interview with Dick Dee (ECMWF)
09.05.2013
Dick Dee is the Head of Reanalysis Section at the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). He has an interest in the work of Patrick Laloyaux and Eric de Boisseson on a coupled data assimilation system at the Centre and plays a part in its development. He took some time out to tell me why. What is your role as Head of Reanalysis at ECMWF? I am in charge of a team of 9 people who are concentrating on producing...
Data Assimilation Lectures: Bangalore
03.05.2013
By Dr David Kelly / Prof Andrew Stuart - Warwick. A series of lectures was given by Warwick-based ESA DA Project scientists over the two week period, from 11th - 22nd of March at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research - Centre of Applicable Mathematics (TIFR-CAM) in Bangalore, India. This is a medium-sized research institute and doctoral training centre, with a broad spectrum of expertise in applied mathematics, most notably...
1st IACS Workshop on Snow Grain Size
26.04.2013
By Melody Sandells The Alps in Grenoble provided the backdrop for the most superb meeting that I have ever attended: the 1st IACS Workshop on Snow Grain Size. The focus of the workshop was to investigate the relationship between different definitions of snow grain size, different techniques of measuring grain size, and how to use grain size information in different models. Snow grain size is an issue that we have been trying to address...
Workshop Report: GODAE OceanView/WGNE workshop
08.04.2013
Two members of the Data Assimilation projects attended the Joint GODAE OceanView/WGNE workshop in Maryland, USA in late March. The event was endorsed by the GODAE OceanView Science Team and the Working Group for Numerical Experimentation. Patrick Laloyaux and Peter Janssen from ECMWF both attended the workshop. The workshop was aimed at members of the atmospheric, ocean, wave and sea-ice community who have an interest in developing...
Introducing new team members: Orial Kryeziu
15.03.2013
Orial Kryeziu joined professor Keith Haines on the Coupled Model Data Assimilation team at Reading in June 2012. Orial’s background is in mathematics and he completed a PhD in geophysical fluid dynamics at UCL. His thesis focussed on overflows, choked flows and atmospheric/oceanic currents. Orial’s work with the ESA DA team is to investigate the impact of assimilating near surface satellite-derived data – particularly...
Introducing new team members: Chris Wilson
28.02.2013
Chris Wilson is a post-doctoral researcher at the School of Geography at the University of Leeds. He joined the ESA-DA team in 2013 as part of the atmospheric data assimilation project. Chris’s work focuses on inverse modelling of greenhouse gases in order to better quantify their impact on the atmosphere. Originally from the Wirral, Chris did his undergraduate degree in mathematics at the University of Oxford, before moving to...
Introducing new team members: Polly Smith
14.02.2013
Polly Smith is a postdoctoral research scientist at the University of Reading. She joined the Reading contingent of the ESA Coupled Model Data Assimilation project team in August 2012. Polly’s first experience of life at the University of Reading was in 2003 when she completed the MSc programme “Mathematical and Numerical modelling of the Atmosphere and Oceans”. After graduating in 2004 she attempted a career in the...
Introducing new team members: Emily Lines
07.02.2013
Emily Lines is a postdoctoral researcher at the department of Geography at UCL. Since joining in May 2012 her work has focused on assimilating EO data with vegetation models as part of the Land – Atmosphere Data Assimilation Project. Following studies at Imperial College London and the University of York, Emily completed her PhD in Cambridge in 2012. Her thesis was on the modelling of forest dynamics using inventory data and she...