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Summer Graduate School

Data Assimilation for the Carbon Cycle July 17, 2006 - July 28, 2006
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Organizers Inez Fung (University of California, Berkeley)
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Tentative Schedule First week: Background Material July 17 8:30-10:00 Inez Fung: The Carbon Cycle 10:30-12:00 Eugenia Kalnay: Introduction to Data Assimilation 1:00-2:30 Doug Nytchka: The likelihood and Bayesian statistics 3:00-5:00 Exercises July 18 8:30-10:00 Inez Fung: Atmospheric circulation and transport 10:30-12:00 Eugenia Kalnay: Least squares; multi-variate statistical data assimilation 1:00-2:30 Doug Nytchka: The Kalman filter and Variational Methods 3:00-5:00 Exercises July 19 8:30-10:00 Inez Fung: Carbon source/sink 10:30-12:00 Eugenia Kalnay: 3D-Var, OI and PSAS 1:00-2:30 Doug Nytchka: Engineering Ensemble Kalman Filter 3:00-5:00 Exercises July 20 8:30-10:00 Scott Doney: Atmosphere, land and ocean observations 10:30-12:00 Eugenia Kalnay: 4D-Var and the Ensemble Kalman Filter 1:00-2:30 Exercises 3:00-5:00 Doug Nytchka: Smoothers and solving inverse problems July 21 8:30-10:00 Chip Miller: OCO 10:30-12:00 Eugenia Kalnay: Comparison of 4D-Var and different Kalman filters 1:00-2:30 Doug Nytchka: Estimating parameters and using DART 3:00-5:00 Exercises Second Week: Introduction to Carbon Data Assimilation July 24 8:30-10:00 David Baker: 4D Var for CO2 source/sinks 10:30-12:00 David Baker: Ensemble Kalman Filter for CO2 source/sink estimation 1:00-2:30 Anna Michalak: Geostatistics - Principles of spatial analysis 3:00-5:00 Exercises July 25 8:30-10:00 Ian Enting, Anna Michalak: CO2 Source/Sink inversion – history, computational requirements 10:30-12:00 Ian Enting: Statistics of Inversions 1:00-2:30 Anna Michalak: Statistics of analyzing inversion results 3:00-5:00 Exercises July 26 8:30-10:00 Chris Barnet: Operational data assimilation of atm trace gases 10:30-12:00 David Schimel: Assimilating model parameters 1:00-2:30 Ian Enting: Automatic differentiation 3:00-5:00 Exercises July 27 8:30-10:00 Prasad Kasibhatla: Role of chemistry in CO2 inversion 10:30-12:00 Prasad Kasibhatla: Error, noise, correlated errors 1:00-2:30 TBD 3:00-5:00 Exercises July 28 8:30-10:00 Student Presentations 10:30-12:00 Student Presentations 1:00-2:30 Student Presentations
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Jul 17, 2006
Monday
08:30 AM - 10:00 AM
  Carbon Cycle
Inez Fung (University of California, Berkeley)
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  Introduction to Data Assimilation
Eugenia Kalnay
01:00 PM - 02:30 PM
  The Likehood, Bayesian Statistics and Spatial Data
Douglas Nychka
Jul 18, 2006
Tuesday
08:30 AM - 10:00 AM
  Atmospheric Circulation and Transport
Inez Fung (University of California, Berkeley)
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  Introduction to Least Squares; Multi-variate Statistical Data Assimilation
Eugenia Kalnay
01:00 PM - 02:30 PM
  Bayes, the Kalman Filter and Variational Methods
Douglas Nychka
Jul 19, 2006
Wednesday
08:30 AM - 10:00 AM
  Carbon Source/Sink
Inez Fung (University of California, Berkeley)
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  3D-Var, OI and PSAS
Eugenia Kalnay
01:00 PM - 02:30 PM
  Engineering the Ensemble Kalman Filter
Douglas Nychka
Jul 20, 2006
Thursday
08:30 AM - 10:00 AM
  Atmosphere, Land and Ocean Observations
Scott Doney
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  4D-Var and Ensemble Kalman Filter
Eugenia Kalnay
01:00 PM - 02:30 PM
  Smoothers and the Solving Inverse Problems
Douglas Nychka
Jul 21, 2006
Friday
08:30 AM - 10:00 AM
  OCO
Charles Miller
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  Estimating Parameters and using DART
Douglas Nychka
01:00 PM - 02:30 PM
  Comparison of 4D-Var, and DifferentTypes of Ensemble Kalman Filter
Eugenia Kalnay
Jul 24, 2006
Monday
08:30 AM - 10:00 AM
  4D Var for CO2 source/sink
David Baker
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  Ensemble Kalman Filter for CO2 Source/Sink Estimation
David Baker
01:00 PM - 02:30 PM
  Geostatistics-Principles of Spatial Analysis
Anna Michalak
Jul 25, 2006
Tuesday
08:30 AM - 10:00 AM
  CO2 Source/Sink Inversion-HIstory, Computational Requirements
Ian Enting, Anna Michalak
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  Statistics of Inversions
Ian Enting
01:00 PM - 02:30 PM
  Statistics of Analyzing Inversion Results
Anna Michalak
Jul 26, 2006
Wednesday
08:30 AM - 10:00 AM
  Operational Data Assimilation of Atmoshphere Trace Gases from AIRS, IASI,CrIS
Chris Barnet
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  Assimilating Model Parameters
David Schimel
01:00 PM - 02:30 PM
  Automatic Differentiation
Ian Enting
Jul 27, 2006
Thursday
08:30 AM - 10:00 AM
  Validation of Satellite Retrievals
Chris Barnet
03:00 PM - 05:00 PM
  Carbon Observations in the Forbidding Ocean
Richard Sherman
Jul 28, 2006
Friday
08:30 AM - 10:00 AM
  Student Presentations: Application to Carbon Data Assimilation
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  Student Presentations: Application to Carbon Data Assimilation