Monday 15 June |
| Martin Miller (ECMWF) |
Welcome and Introduction |
| Eugenia Kalnay ( Maryland University) |
Data Assimilation Systems (Review) |
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| Gerald Desroziers (Meteo-France) |
Objective validation of a data assimilation system: diagnosing sub-optimality (Review) |
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| Chiara Piccolo ( UK Met) |
Diagnose model error in data assimilation system |
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| Peter Bauer (ECMWF) |
Observation System Experiment to estimate the impact of observations |
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| Junjie Liu ( Berkeley University) (presented by Eugenia Kalnay) |
Information Content in EnKF and the relation with Cross Validation
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| Loik Berre (Météo France) |
Estimation and diagnosis of analysis/background error covariances from an ensemble assimilation |
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| Nedjelika Zagar ( University of Ljubljana) |
Diagnosis of data assimilation systems by using normal modes |
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| Paul Poli (ECMWF) |
Monitoring long data assimilation time series: a reanalysis perspective with Era-Interim |
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| Angela Benedetti (ECMWF) |
Chemistry Data Assimilation validation with respect to independent data |
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| Mitchiko Masutani (NOAA) |
Observing Simulated System Experiment to estimate the potential of future observations |
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Tuesday 16 June 2009 |
| Ron Gelaro (GMAO) |
Recent developments in the use and understanding of adjoint-derived estimates of observation impact |
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| Dacian Daescu ( Portland State University) |
Sensitivity analysis in variational data assimilation and applications |
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| Fernando Prates (ECMWF) |
FSO: Monitoring the observation forecast impact |
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| Olivier Talagrand (LMD) |
Verification of Ensemble Systems |
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| Richard Menard (Environment Canada) |
Convergence and stability of estimated error variances derived from assimilation residuals in observation space |
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| Bernard Chapnik (Météo France) |
On-line observation covariance matrix tuning based on optimality diagnostic
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| Anthony Weaver (CERFACS) |
Assimilation diagnostics from an ocean 3D-Var/4D-Var system |
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| Working group discussions |
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Wednesday 17 June 2009 |
| Working group discussions and drafting of recommendations |
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| Plenary Session |
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| Chermelle Engel (Melbourne University): A scale-based distortion metric for mesoscale weather verification |
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| Ricardo Todling (NASA): An approach to assess observation impact based on observation-minus-forecast residuals |
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| Elisabeth Remy (CERFACS MERCATOR Ocean): Assimilation diagnostics in the Mercator-Ocean forecasting systems |
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| William Grey (Met Office): Diagnostics for the Assimilation of Observations in the Boundary Layer |
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| Cristina Lupu (Université du Québec à Montréal): Evaluation of the impact of observations on analyses based in information content |
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| Liang Xu (Naval Research Laboratory): Four Dimensional Observation Impact on the US Navy's Atmospheric Analyses and Forecasts (by Liang Xu, Rolf Langland, Nancy Baker, Boon Chua, and Tom Rosmond) |
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| Ronald Errico (NASA/GMAO and UMBC/GEST): Validation of the prototype GMAO OSSE system |
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| Tiziana Cherubini ( University of Hawaii): The Impact of Lightning Data Assimilation on a Winter Storm Simulation over the North Pacific Ocean |
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