data assimilation education forum part ii: education capabilities panel
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Data Assimilation Education Forum Part II: Education Capabilities Panel. January 21, 2008 presented by Jeffrey Anderson Senior Scientist NCAR. NCAR’s Data Assimilation Research Testbed (DART): Community DA - Education, Exploration, Research, Operations. DART is:. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Data Assimilation Education ForumPart II: Education Capabilities Panel
NCAR’s Data Assimilation Research Testbed (DART):
Community DA - Education, Exploration, Research, Operations
January 21, 2008
presented byJeffrey AndersonSenior Scientist
NCAR
DART is:
• Public domain software for Data Assimilation– Well-tested, portable,
extensible, free!
• Models– Toy to HUGE
• Observations– Real, synthetic, novel
• An extensive Tutorial– With examples, exercises,
explanations
• People
used at -
and many more …
DART is:
• Education
• Exploration
• Research
• Operations
Education
Tutorial
Exploration
Impact of PS obs on V wind
Adapti
ve Inflati
on
Research
GPS occultations
QuikSCAT winds
Operations
CAM T85 - 80 members
CWB Rainfall probability
48h track forecast
32 members
Scales Very Well!
Summary• Hardware
– Desktops: Linux, Unix, Apple, Windows (under cygwin)
– Clusters: Linux, AIX, SGI/ALTIX, ??? (got one we can try?)
• Supported Models– A large complement of 1d models: Lorenz63, Lorenz96,
‘simple_advection’, PBL1d, …
– Some ‘intermediate’ models: pe2lyr, bgrid_solo, …
– Several ‘real’ models supported but source not included : CAM, WRF
• Contact Info– www.image.ucar.edu/DAReS/DART
– Jeff Anderson [email protected]
– Tim Hoar [email protected]
– Nancy Collins [email protected]