Short Course on Data Assimilation
for Sea-Ice Modelers
(AOMIP)

Physical Oceanography Department
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Woods Hole, MA
May 10-11, 2003

Theme

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.

Contact & Logistics

If interested in participating and to be included in future notifications regarding this event, please contact Dimitris Menemenlis (menemenlis@jpl.nasa.gov). Information on meeting logistics may be found here.

Course Material

The course notes are available in PDF.

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

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