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Short Course on Data Assimilation for Sea-Ice Modelers

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A NASA-sponsored short course on data assimilation for sea-ice modelers will be held May 10-11, 2003, at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Woods Hole, MA, immediately preceding the AMS Seventh Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography. The short course will be taught by Prof. Carl Wunsch and by Dr. Patrick Heimbach of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and will include coverage of the following topics:

  • Basic machinery of discrete inverse methods: regression, least squares, singular vectors, etc.
  • The time-dependent inverse problem: Green's functions, representers, Kalman filter and optimal smoothers, and the adjoint method.
  • Automatic adjoint model generation and application of the adjoint method to the ocean circulation inverse problem.
  • Development of an adjoint model for a coupled sea-ice, ocean model.

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Contact & Logistics

If interested in participating and to be included in future notifications regarding this event, please contact Dimitris Menemenlis (menemenlis@jpl.nasa.gov).

Preliminary Agenda

Saturday, May 10, 2003, 8:00am - 6:00pm

  • Welcoming statements and introductions
  • Definition of inverse problems
  • Basic machinery of discrete inverse methods:
    • Regression
    • Least squares
    • Singular vectors
    • Gauss-Markov theorem
  • The time-dependent inverse problem:
    • Green's function and representer methods
    • Kalman filter and optimal smoothers
    • Extended Kalman filters
    • Approximate Kalman filter
    • Monte-Carlo methods and ensemble Kalman filter

Sunday, May 11, 2003, 8:00am - 6:00pm

  • The time-dependent inverse problem (continued):
    • Pontryagin principle
    • The adjoint method
  • Automatic adjoint model compilers
  • Some results from ECCO
  • Development of sea-ice model adjoint
  • Closing discussions

Attendees

  1. Cecilia BITZ
    Polar Science Center, University of Washington
  2. Tom CARRIERES
    Canadian Ice Service
  3. Gustavo G. CARRIO
    Dept.of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
  4. Bin CHENG
    Finnish Institute of Marine Research
  5. Valérie DULIÈRE
    Université Catholique de Louvain
  6. Daniel FELTHAM
    University College London
  7. Charles FOWLER
    Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research, University of Colorado at Boulder
  8. Thomas HAINE
    Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins
  9. Patrick HEIMBACH
    Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science, MIT
  10. William HIBLER, III
    International Arctic Research Center, UAF
  11. David HOLLAND
    Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science, New York University
  12. Greg HOLLOWAY
    Institute of Ocean Sciences, Canada
  13. Elizabeth HUNKE
    Los Alamos National Laboratory
  14. Jason HYATT
    WHOI
  15. Loong-tae KIM
    Texas A&M University
  16. Igor KULAKOV
    Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
  17. LCDR Douglas LAMB
    National Ice Center/Naval Ice Center
  18. Daniel LEA
    Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins
  19. Ron LINDSAY
    Polar Science Center, University of Washington
  20. Nadja LONROTH
    Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University
  21. Joseph LOVICK
    University of Alaska Fairbanks
  22. Ted MAKSYM
    National Ice Center, Polar Science Team, NOAA
  23. Jin MEIBING
    University of Alaska Fairbanks
  24. Walt MEIER
    Oceanography Department, U.S. Naval Academy
  25. Dimitris MENEMENLIS
    Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, NASA
  26. Andrey PROSHUTINSKY
    Physical Oceanography, WHOI
  27. Anastasia ROMANOU
    Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science, New York University
  28. Helga SCHAFFRIN
    Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science, New York University
  29. Donald STARK
    Department of Oceanography, Naval Postgraduate School
  30. Esteban TABAK
    Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science, New York University
  31. Dinh Hai TRAN
    Canadian Ice Service
  32. Jinro UKITA
    Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA
  33. Petteri UOTILA
    Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science, New York University
  34. Michael VANWOERT
    National Ice Center, NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD
  35. Andreas VIELI
    School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol
  36. Xingren WU
    National Ice Center, NOAA
  37. Carl WUNSCH
    Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science, MIT
  38. Nikolai YAKOVLEV
    Russian Academy of Sciences
  39. Jinlun ZHANG
    Polar Science Center, University of Washington

Mailing List Only (or Partial Attendance)

  1. David BARBER
    Faculty of Environment, University of Manitoba
  2. Petra HEIL
    University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania
  3. Abha SOOD
    Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar und Marine Research
  4. Ronald KWOK
    Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, NASA