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AOSC 615: Advanced Methods in Data Assimilation     [Spring 2009]
Instructor

Kayo Ide   (Email: ide at umd.edu; Office: 3403 CSS)

Guest Lecturers

Name Date Title/Subject
(*) Eugenia Kalnay (UMD) 4/14/09 Advanced Algorithms of Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter
(**) Takemasa Miyoshi (UMD) 4/23/09 Opertional Development of the Ensemble Kalman Filter at JMA
(***) John Derber (NCEP) 4/30/09 Satellite Data Assimilation

Course Description

The course will provide an in-depth overview of the advanced data assimilation methods. It will cover theory and techniques, as well as possible drawbacks and strategies to overcome them. The instructions will consist of two classes a week (total 2.5hr/week), spent between classroom lectures and hand-on exercises. Some lectures will be given by guest speakers who are the leading experts of data assimilation.

Dates and Location

12:30-1:45, TuTh. CSS 1113.

Office Hours

10:00-11:00, MW. CSS 3403 or by appointment.

Grading Policty

Attendance/Participation (30%), Projects/Problem sets (40%), & Final Presentation (30%).

Assignments

No. Due Date Assignment Download
1. 2/ 23, Monday Short report (1-2 pages) focusing on how the background error covariance matrix is constructed in these papers:
Parrish, David F. and John C. Derber, 1992: The National Meteorological Center's Spectral Statistical-Interpolation Analysis System. Mon. Wea. Rev., 120, 1747-1763. pdf
Hollingsworth, A., and P. Lonnberg, 1986: The statistical structure of short-range forecast errors as determined from radiosonde data. Part I: The wind field. Tellus, 38A, 111-136. pdf
2a. 3/ 3, Tuesday 10-min presentation of the Project 1. 3D-var and OI pdf
2b. 3/ 5, Thursday Report on Project 1. 3D-var and OI
3a. 3/ 26, Thursday 10-min presentation of the Project 2. EKF pdf
Ref on observing system example: Lorenz E. N., and K. A. Emanuel, 1998: Optimal sites for supplemental weather observations: Simulation with a small model. J. Atmos. Sci,, 55, 399-414. pdf
3b. 3/ 31, Tuesday Report on Project 2. EKF
4a. 4/ 16, Thursday 10-min presentation of the Project 3. EnKF pdf
4b. 4/ 17, Friday Report on Project 3. EnKF
5a. 5/ 5, Tuesday 10-min presentation of the Project 4. 4D-Var pdf (revised)
5b. 5/ 7, Thursday Report on Project 4. 4D-Var
6a. 5/ 12, Tuesday 30-min presentation of the Final Project (#: Sabrina Rainwater & Steve Greybush)
6b. 5/ 14, Thursday 30-min presentation of the Final Project (##: Adrienne Norwood & Daryl Kleist)
6c. 5/ 18, Monday Report on the Final Project

Project Models & Supplemental Codes (+)

No. Models Download
1. Lorenz 3 dimensional model ('63)
[Ref] Lorenz, E. N., 1963: Deterministic non-periodic flow. J. Atmos. Sci., 20, 130-141. pdf
[Matlab] (i) lorenz63.m*; (ii) lorenz63_dxdt.m     [*: main code] (i) (ii)
2. Lorenz 40 dimensional model ('95)
[Ref] Lorenz, E. N., 1995: Predictability: a problem partly solved. ECMWF proceedings for Seminar on Predictability, 1-18. pdf
[Matlab] (i) lorenz95.m*; (ii) lorenz95_dxdt.m (i) (ii)
3. Point vortex model with tracers
[Ref] Hassen, Aref, 2007: Point vortex dynamics - A classical mathematics playground. J. Math. Phys., 48, 065401.
[Tracer dynamcs is obtained by treating tracers as point vortices with zero circulation.]
pdf
[Matlab] (i) pvt.m*; (ii) pvt_dxdt.m (i) (ii)
4. SPEEDY (Simplified Parametrization, primitivE-Equation Dynamics AGCM)
[Ref] Molteni, F., 2003: Atmospheric simulations uing a GCM with simplified physical parametrizations. I: Model climatology and variability in multi-decadal experiments. Climate Dynamics, 20, 171-191. pdf
[Fortran] (i) documentation; (ii) code package.
[Both prepared by Dr. Junjie Liu for AOSC 614 taught by Prof. Eugenia Kalnay.]
(i) (ii)
(+) Minimization based on quasi-Newton's method (BFGS)
[Matlab] (i) bfgs.m; (ii) wolfe.m
[Software by Prof. Stefan Ulbrich]
(i) (ii)

Syllabus and Lecture Notes

Week Dates [/2009] Topics Notes
1. 1/ 29 Introduction to Data Assimilation Lect.1
2. 2/ 3 & 5 Background Materials & Least Square Estimation
3. 2/ 10 & 12 Least Square Estimation & 3D-Var
4. 2/ 17 & 19 3D-Var Lect.6
5. 2/ 24 & 26 Optimal Interpolation (OI) & Topics in 3D Data Assimilation Lect.9
6. 3/ 3 & 5 Project 1 Presentation, Observability, & Extended Kalman Fiter (EKF) Lect.11
7. 3/ 11 Observability Seminar & EKF
... ... ... spring break ...
8. 3/ 24 & 26 Ensemble Prediction & Project 2 Presentation
9. 3/ 31 & 4/ 2 Singular Vectors & Ensemble Kalman Filter
10. 4/ 7 & 9 Ensemble Kalman filter & Breeding EnKF
11. 4/ 14 & 16 Advanced Schemes of LETKF (*) & Project 3 (Presentation)
12. 4/ 21 & 23 4D-Var & Operational Development of the Ensemble Kalman Filter at JMA (**) JMA DA System
13. 4/ 28 4D-Var & Satellite Data Assimiltion (***) 4D-Var (revised)
14. 5/ 5 & 7 Project 4 (Presentation) & Validation of Data Assimilation System Adjoint Check by Daryl Kleist
15. 5/ 12 & 14 Final presentations (#,##)
16. 5/ 18 Final Report Due

 
 

 

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