04/02/2018
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Following the success of the last year first edition, we kindly invite you to the 2nd 4-days Summer School “Crash Course on Data Assimilation - Theoretical foundations and advanced applications with a focus on ensemble methods,” taking place on May 22-25, 2018 at the Nansen Center (www.nersc.no) in Bergen, Norway.
The 4-days school aims at PhD-level students and early-stage scientists with beginner or no notions of data assimilation intending to apply data assimilation as part of their research. The crash course will cover the basic ideas and concepts of data assimilation, focusing on ensemble methods, illustrated with real-scale / operational applications and with the aid of practical exercises.
Updated information, including how to reach the location and the facilities, will be progressively uploaded to the school website (https://events.nersc.no/summer-school-%E2%80%9Ccrash-course-data-assimilation-theoretical-foundations-and-advanced-applications-0).
The temporary list of lectures and (tentative) topics is given below:
Geir Evensen (IRIS & NERSC, Norway): Basic principles of inference and theory of variational and sequential Gaussian analysis, EnKF fundamentals
Laurent Bertino (NERSC, Norway): Background statistics, spatial covariances, anamorphosis for non Gaussian variables
Alberto Carrassi (NERSC, Norway): Data assimilation for chaotic dynamics
Yan Chen (TOTAL, UK): Data assimilation for climate prediction
Svetlana Dubinkina (CWI, Holland): Data assimilation for paleo-climate
Colin Grudzien (NERSC, Norway): Numerical exercise on data assimilation and dynamical systems
Remus Hanea (STATOIL, Norway): Data Assimilation for oil reservoirs
Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen (IBG-3, Germany): Data assimilation for terrestrial system modelling
Annette Samuelsen (NERSC, Norway): Data assimilation for the ecosystem
Yiguo Wang (NERSC, Norway): Data assimilation for climate prediction
The deadline to apply is February, 28th 2018.
There are no participation fees, but we have a limited number of 30 participants that will be selected by the committee.
Subject to funding availability, we will provide full or partial financial support for up to three students, based on the content and provenance of the application.
The participants will be encouraged to bring over a poster for presenting their research activities.
To register, visit the school website: https://events.nersc.no/summer-school-%E2%80%9Ccrash-course-data-assimilation-theoretical-foundations-and-advanced-applications-0.
Important: The crash-course is organized in conjunction with the 13th International EnKF workshop (http://www.iris.no/enkf/enkf-homepage) taking place on May 28-30, 2018 in Bergen.
Deadline for submitting abstracts to the workshop is 15th February.
Participants to the Crash Course on DA are strongly encouraged to attend the workshop too.
The organizing committee:
Geir Evensen (IRIS and NERSC, Bergen, Norway)
Laurent Bertino (NERSC, Bergen, Norway)
Alberto Carrassi (NERSC, Bergen, Norway)
The Nansen Center is an independent non-profit research foundation conducting basic and applied environmental and climate research.
