February 18, 2013, Monday
| 8:45 | - | 9:00 | Welcome to BIRS & Opening Remarks | |||
| 9:00 | - | 10:00 |
Andrew Lorenc (UK Met Office) "4D-Ensemble-Var. A Development Path for Data Assimilation at UK Met Office" [ video | file ] |
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| 10:00 | - | 10:30 | Coffee Break | |||
| 10:30 | - | 11:00 |
Mark Buehner (Environment Canada) "Recent Developments in Data Assimilation for Global Deterministic NWP: EnVar vs. 3D-Var and 4D-Var" [ video | file ] |
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| 11:00 | - | 11:30 |
Daryl Kleist (NOAA NCEP, USA) "Hybrid Variational-Ensemble Data Assimilation at NCEP" [ video | file ] |
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| 11:30 | - | 13:00 | Lunch | |||
| 13:00 | - | 14:00 | Banff Centre Tour | |||
| 14:00 | - | 15:00 |
Peter Houtekamer (Meteorological Service of Canada) "Parallel Implementation of an Ensemble Kalman Filter" [ video | file ] |
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| 15:00 | - | 15:30 | Coffee Break | |||
| 15:30 | - | 16:00 |
Ricardo Todling (NASA GSFC., USA) "Hybrid Data Assimilation without Ensemble Filtering" [ video | file ] |
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| 16:00 | - | 16:30 |
Fuqing Zhang (Penn State U., USA) "Realtime Hurricane Prediction with EnKF Assimilation of Airborne Doppler Observations" [ video | file ] |
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| 16:30 | - | 18:00 | Discussion | |||
February 19, 2013, Tuesday
| 9:00 | - | 10:00 |
Marc Bocquet (Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, France) "New Developments in Ensemble Kalman Fltering and Smoothing Where a Bayesian Approach Gives an Advantage" |
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| 10:00 | - | 10:30 |
Pierre Lermusiaux (MIT, USA) "Bayesian Learning of Stochastic Dynamical Models: State, Parameters, also Model Formulations?" |
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| 10:30 | - | 11:00 | Coffee Break | |||
| 11:00 | - | 12:00 |
Matti Morzfeld (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA) "Conditions for Successful Data Assimilation" [ video | file ] |
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| 12:00 | - | 12:15 | Group Photo | |||
| 12:00 | - | 13:30 | Lunch | |||
| 13:30 | - | 14:00 |
Brad Weir (Oregon State U., USA) "Implicit Parameter Estimation" [ video | file ] | |||
| 14:00 | - | 14:30 |
Mike Dowd (Dalhousie U., Canada) "Statistical Data Assimilation for Biological Ocean Models" [ file ] |
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| 14:30 | - | 15:30 | Coffee Break | |||
| 15:30 | - | 16:00 |
Juan Restrepo (U. Arizona, USA) "How Warm is it Getting? The Determination of a Trend in a Multi-Scale Problem" [ file ] |
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| 16:30 | - | 18:00 | Discussion | |||
February 20, 2013, Wednesday
| 9:00 | - | 10:00 |
Emmanuel Cosme (Universite Joseph Fourier de Grenoble, France) "On Non Gaussian Ensemble Data Assimilation" [ video | file ] |
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| 10:00 | - | 10:30 |
Jeffrey Whitaker (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, USA) "Representing Model Uncertainty in Ensemble Data Assimilation" [ video | file ] |
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| 10:30 | - | 11:00 | Coffee Break | |||
| 11:00 | - | 11:30 |
Amal El Akkraoui (NASA GSFC, USA) "GMAO Hybrid Ensemble 3D-Var" [ file ] |
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| 11:30 | - | 12:00 |
Eugenia Kalnay (U. Maryland, USA) "Recent Advances in EnKF" [ file ] |
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| 12:00 | - | 13:30 | Lunch | |||
February 21, 2013, Thursday
| 9:00 | - | 10:00 |
Jonathan Weare (U. Chicago, USA) "Data Analusis in Low Noise Regime" [ file ] |
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| 10:00 | - | 10:30 |
Kayo Ide (U. Maryland, USA) "Multi-scale Data Assimilation" [ file ] |
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| 10:30 | - | 11:00 | Coffee Break | |||
| 11:00 | - | 11:30 |
Nancy Nichols (U. Reading, UK) "Incorporating Representativity Error in Data Assimilation" [ file ] |
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| 11:30 | - | 12:00 |
Elhoucine Bergou (CERFACS, France) "Hybrid 4DVAR and Nonlinear EnKS Methods without Tangents and Adjoints" [ video | file ] |
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| 12:00 | - | 13:30 | Lunch | |||
| 13:30 | - | 14:00 |
Robert N. Miller (Oregon State U., USA) "Application of the Implicit Particle Filter to a Model of Nearshore Circulation" [ file ] |
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| 14:00 | - | 14:30 |
Pierre Gauthier (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada) "Diagnostics of Data Assimilation and Models for Environmental and Climate Prediction" [ file ] |
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