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

Week 1

Monday, July 23, 2007

8:30 - 10:30 Intro to Data Assimilation (Kalnay)
10:30 - 12:00 Radiative Transfer (Hudson)
12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH
1:00 - 2:30 Intro to Remote Sensing (Barnet)
3:00 - 5:00 Exercises (Szunyogh)

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

8:30 - 10:30 Intro to Least Squares (Kalnay)
10:30 - 12:00 Radiative Transfer (Hudson)
12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH
1:00 - 2:30 Intro to Remote Sensing (Barnet)
3:00 - 5:00 Exercises (Szunyogh)

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

8:30 - 10:30 3D-Var/4-D Var (Todling)
10:30 - 12:00 Review of Satellite Data Products (Li)
12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH
1:00 - 2:30 Review of Satellite Data Products (Barnet) and WAVES Launch Video (.avi)

Thursday, July 26, 2007

8:30 - 10:30 Weak Constraint 4D-Var (Tremolet)
10:30 - 12:00 Student Introductory Presentations
12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH
1:00 - 2:30 Student Introductory Presentations
3:00 - 5:00 Exercises (Liu)

Friday, July 27, 2007

8:30 - 10:30 Kalman Filter & Extended Kalman Filter (Szunyogh)
10:30 - 12:00 Student Introductory Presentations
12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH
1:00 - 2:30 Student Introductory Presentations
3:00 - 5:00 Student Presentations

Week 2

Friday, August 3, 2007

8:30 - 10:30 Non-Gaussian DA (Fletcher)
10:30 - 12:00 Minimization Algorithms and Preconditioning (Fletcher)
12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH
1:00 - 2:30 Exercises (Kotelich)
3:00 - 5:00 Exercises (Liu)

Week 3

Monday, August 6, 2007

8:30 - 10:30 NOAA Satellites Program (Goldberg)
10:30 - 12:00 Microwave Instruments & Products (Weng)
12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH
1:00 - 2:30 WindSat (Bettenhause)
3:00 - 5:00 Exercises (Szunyogh)

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

8:30 - 10:30 IR Instruments (Susskind)
10:30 - 12:00 IR Instruments (Susskind)
12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH
1:00 - 2:30 Precipitation (Arkin)
3:00 - 5:00 Exercises (Szunyogh)

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

8:30 - 10:30 Jacobian, TLM and Adjoint (Errico)
10:30 - 12:00 Introduction to the JCSDA CRTM (Han)
12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH
1:00 - 2:30 Representers DA (Miller)
3:00 - 5:00 Reduced Space DA and Historical SST (Kaplan)

Thursday, August 9, 2007

8:30 - 10:30 Observing System Simulation Experiments (Emmitt)
10:30 - 12:00 Adaptive Observations (Langland)
12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH
1:00 - 2:30 Student Final Discussions
3:00 - 5:00 Student Final Discussions

Friday, August 10, 2007

8:30 - 10:30 Review
10:30 - 12:00 Review
12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH
1:00 - 2:30 Student Final Discussions
3:00 - 5:00 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)

Workshop on Applications of Remotely Sensed Observations in Data AssimilationSponsored by the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation