Data Assimilation Workshop (5–9 December 2016) | Download/ Print PDF copy for the program
| DAY 1 – Theory & Ocean DA | ||
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8:30 |
Registration |
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9:00 |
DDE / ADRD |
Opening and Welcome |
| Session 1 — Chair: Jeff Kepert | ||
9:10 |
Keynote: Peter Steinle (BoM) |
The importance and future of DA at the Bureau of Meteorology |
9:50 |
Keynote: Jeff Anderson |
Building State-of-the-Art Forecast Systems with the Ensemble Kalman Filter |
| 10:30-11:00 | Morning Tea | ||
| Session 2 — Chair: Peter Oke | ||
11:00 |
Michael Tsyrulnikov (Hydrometcenter of Russia) |
Stochastic & doubly stochastic spatio-temporal field modelling for data assimilation |
11:20 |
Gary Brassington (BoM) |
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11:40 |
Paul Sandery (BoM) |
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12:00 |
Colette Kerry (UNSW) |
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12:20 |
Emlyn Jones (CSIRO, Hobart) |
On assimilating reflectance into marine BGC models |
| 12:40-14:00 | Lunch | ||
| Session 3 — Chair: Terry O'Kane | ||
14:00 |
Keynote: Michael Tsyrulnikov |
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14:40 |
Chaojiao Sun (CSIRO WA) |
Satellite SST assimilation into an ocean model (SHOC) using 4D-Var |
15:00 |
Peter Oke (CSIRO, Hobart) |
Reanalysis and Ocean DA |
15:20 |
Pavel Sakov (BoM) |
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| 15:40 – 16:00 | Afternoon Tea | ||
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Discussion of day's topics Facilitator: Gary Brassington Rapporteur: Paul Sandery |
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| DAY 2 – Coupled & Atmospheric DA | ||
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| Session 1 — Chair: Jeff Anderson | ||
9:00 |
Keynote: Craig Bishop |
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9:40 |
Terry O'Kane (CSIRO, Hobart) |
Coupled DA in CCFS : A prototype multi-year to decadal prediction system |
10:00 |
Oscar Alves/Angus Gray-Weale (BoM) |
Coupled data assimilation in ACCESS-S |
10:20 |
Yonghong Yin (BoM) |
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| 10:40-11:00 | Morning Tea | ||
| Session 2 — Chair: Tijana Janjic Pfander | ||
11:00 |
Keynote: Adam Clayton |
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11:40 |
Noel Davidson (Emeritus Res. Scientist) |
Recent Experiences with Operational Initialization, Prediction and Verification of Tropical Cyclones |
12:00 |
Xingbao Wang (BoM) |
The impact of background field on the TC bogus data assimilation |
| 12:40-14:00 | Lunch | ||
| Session 3 — Chair: Michael Tsyrulnikov | ||
14:00 |
Keynote: Mark Buehner |
Recent research on improving the use of ensembles in EnVAR for deterministic weather prediction |
14:40 |
Mark Buehner (Environ & CC - Canada) |
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15:00 |
Xudong Sun (BoM) |
Data assimilation background covariance and gain matrix analysis |
15:20 |
Monika Krysta (BoM) |
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| 15:40 - 16:00 | Afternoon tea | ||
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Discussion of day's topics Facilitator: Craig Bishop Rapporteur: Jin Lee |
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| DAY 3 – Atmosphere, Land & BGC | ||
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| Session 1 — Chair: Adam Clayton | ||
9:00 |
Keynote: Tijana Pfander |
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9:40 |
Susan Rennie (BoM) |
Doppler radar wind observations for high resolution data assimilation |
10:00 |
Hyun-Cheol Shin (KMA) |
Current status and future plans for the KMA data assimilation system |
10:20 |
Peter Rayner (Univ of Melb) |
Data assimilation for terrestrial biogeochemistry, why is it different ? |
| 10:40-11:00 | Morning Tea | ||
| Session 2 — Chair: Sujay Kumar | ||
11:00 |
Keynote: Clara Draper |
Incorporating land surface observations into reanalyses: NASA, GMAO's MERRA-2 and beyond |
11:40 |
Imtiaz Dharssi (BoM) |
A new high resolution land dryness analysis system for Australia |
12:00 |
Yuan Li (Monash Univ) |
Using remote sensing data for hydrological and hydraulic flood forecasting |
12:20 |
Richard Renshaw (UK Met Office) |
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| 12:40-14:00 | Lunch | ||
| Session 3 — Chair: Clara Draper | ||
14:00 |
Keynote: Sujay Kumar |
Multivariate assimilation of land surface remote sensing datasets: Advances, gaps and challenges |
14:40 |
Dongryeol Ryu (Univ of Melb) |
Assimilation of evaporative Fraction into a Soil Vegetation Atmosphere Transfer model to Improve Root-Zone Soil Moisture |
15:00 |
Richard Matear (CSIRO, Hobart) |
Constraints on the global marine iron cycle from a simple inverse model |
15:20 |
Peter Rayner (Univ of Melb) |
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| 15:40 – 16:00 | Afternoon Tea | ||
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Discussion of day's topics Facilitator: Imtiaz Dharssi Rapporteur: Vinod Kumar |
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| DAY 4 – Assimilating Remotely Sensed Observations | ||
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| Session 1 — Chair: Mark Buehner | ||
9:00 |
Keynote: John Derber (N0AA USA) |
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9:40 |
Bill Bell (via video) (UK Met office) |
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10:00 |
Iliana Genkova (via video) (USA) |
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| 10:20-11:00 | Morning Tea | ||
| Session 2 — Chair: Stuart Moore | ||
11:00 |
John Le Marshall (BoM) |
Benefits from Advances in the Assimilation of Earth Observations from space |
11:20 |
Salim Masoumi (ANU, Canberra) |
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11:40 |
Robert Norman (RMIT) |
Anomalous GNSS Radio Occultation data |
| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch | ||
| Session 3— Chair: John Derber | ||
14:00 |
Jeff Anderson (UCAR USA) |
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14:20 |
John George (NCMRWF India) |
NCUM Data Assimilation System: Present Status |
14:40 |
Chris Tingwell (BoM) |
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15:00 |
Kevin Judd (UWA) |
TBA |
| 15:20 – 16:00 | Afternoon tea | ||
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Discussion of day's topics Facilitator: John Le Marshall Rapporteur: Chris Tingwell |
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| DAY 5 – Reanalysis, Computational Environment and future of DA in Australia | ||
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| Session 1— Chair: Richard Renshaw | ||
9:00 |
Keynote: Stuart Moore |
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9:40 |
Chun-Hsu Su (BoM) |
Towards a high-resolution atmospheric reanalysis for Australia |
10:00 |
Peter Jermey (UK Met office) |
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| 10:20-11:00 | Morning Tea | ||
| Session 2— Chair: Robin Bowen | ||
11:00 |
Tim Pugh (BoM) |
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11:20 |
Phil Brown (Cray) |
4DVAR Optimization and Use-cases for Deep Learning in Earth Sciences |
11:40 |
Presentation by Intel |
"What's inside"– the software developments |
12:00 |
Dale Roberts / Ben Evans |
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| 12:20-14:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00-15:00 - Discussion of day's topics Facilitator: Peter Steinle First Rapporteur: Chun-Hsu Su Second Rapporteur: Joerg Heinrich |
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15:00 |
Peter Steinle(BoM) |
Summaries & Closing remarks |
| 15:20 – 16:00 | Afternoon tea | ||