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Syllabus

Lecture Notes of Dr. Carr

Topics covered by Dr. Xue

• Introduction. Basic Concepts and Mathematical Tools
• Additional materials on matrix algebra
  
• Optimal Interpolation (OI)  Part I   Part II (subject to change)

ECMWF Lecture Notes on Data Assimilation
Lorenc, A. C., 1986: Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc.
Ide et al (1997) on Unified Notations for Data Assimilation.

• Three-Dimensional Variational Analysis and Data Assimilation (3DVAR)

Huang (2000) MWR paper on various 3D analysis methods and corresponding analysis package. Download the package, examine the source code and run the analysis experiments with included data. Plotting program is also included. A user documentation file, analab_docs.ps is found in the package.

3DVAR Assimilation of GPS Data

• Liu and Xue (MWR 2004)    
• Paper Outline  
• Early Conference Presentation.
• Gao et al (1999) 3DVAR analysis for dual Doppler radar

Knowledge Expections for Exam Exam 2 Questions

• Four-dimensional Data Assimilation

  Recipes for Adjoint Code Construction (Giering and Kaminski 1998).
  Errico, R. M., 1997: What is an adjoint model? BAMS

  Homework assignment as an alternative to Dr. Carr's assignment No. 5. The ANALAB package is here.

• Kalman Filters
  
  • Lecture Notes
  • Hamil Tutorial on Ensemble Data Assimilation
  • Tong and Xue EnKF Workshop presentation on radar data assimilation with EnKF and MWR paper
  • Evansen (1994) - The original EnKF paper
  • Hamil (2000) NWP Conference paper on EnKF
  • Evensen (2003) Review Article
  • Whitaker and Hamil (2002 MWR) on EnKF without obs perturbations - EnSRF.
  • Hamill et al (MWR 2001) on filtering of background error covariance
  • Tippett et al (MWR 2003) on EnSRFs.
    
• Special Topics
  • A History of Data Assimilation (Lorenc, 2004)
  • 4DVAR v.s. Ensemble Kalman Filter (Lorenc, 2004)