Tutorial Lectures

• Chris Wikle (U. Missouri), "Brief Introduction to Bayesian Statistics and Application to Data Assimilation"
• Jeff Anderson (NCAR), "Ensemble Filerting for Geophysical Data Assimilation"
• Kayo Ide (UCLA), "Basics Elements in Data Assmilation"

Research Talks

Statistical Approaches

• Doug Nychka (NCAR), "Non-Gaussian Filters"
• Ian Mckeague (Columbia University), "Statistical Inversion of Oceanographic Tracer Data"

Ocean Data Assimilation

• Carl Wunsch (MIT), "Global State Estimation in Physical Oceanography"
• Naomi Leonard (Princeton Univeristy), "Adaptive Sampling in the Ocean"

Atmospheric Data Asimilation

• Ron Gelaro (NASA GSFC), " Sensitivity Analysis in Atmospheric Data Assimilation"
• Craig Bishop (NRL Monterey), "Observational Network Design and Data Assimilation"

Mathematical Approaches

• Bob Miller (Oregon State University)
  • "Topics in Data Assimilation. Stochastic Processes" (delivered lecture)
  • "Ocean Data Assimilartion. Theory to Practice" (lecture note only)
  • "Topics in Data Assimilation. Application of the Stochastic Calculus" (lecture note only)
• Juan Restrepo (University of Arizona), " Path Integral Method and Speeding up MC with Nonlocal Strategies"

Issues and Challenges

• Zoltan Toth (NCEP), " Data Assimilation and Ensemble Forecatsing"

• Eugenia Kalnay (University of Maryland), "Ensemble Forecasting and Data Assimilation: Two Problems with the Same Solution?"

Last Update: September 15, 2005