Short Course on Data Assimilation for Sea-Ice Modelers
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)
Woods Hole, MA
10-11 May 2003
For more information please contact:
D. Menemenlis (menemenlis [at] jpl.nasa.gov)
A NASA-sponsored short course on data assimilation for sea-ice modelers
will be held on May 10-11, 2003, at the Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution (WHOI) in Woods Hole, MA, immediately preceding the AMS
Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography. The short course will
be taught by Prof. Carl Wunsch and by Dr. Patrick Heimbach of the
Masachusetts Institute of Technology and will include coverage of
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.
If interested in participating and in order to be included in future
mailings regarding this event, please reply to D. Menemenlis
(menemenlis [at] jpl.nasa.gov).
For those who plan to attend, a block of rooms has been reserved at:
Ramada Inn on Falmouth Square
40 N. Main Road, Falmouth, MA
tel: 508-457-0606
Ask to get the WHOI rate, which is $69 per night. Reservations must be
made by April 6, 2003. Those who will attend the AMS meeting in Hyannis
(May 12-16, 2003) can also stay at the Sheraton Hyannis Resort (tel:
508-775-7775) where a block of rooms is reserved by the AMS.
Reservations must be made prior to 10 April and must be accompanied by a
one-night deposit ($94 per night). It takes about 40 minutes to drive
from Woods Hole to Hyannis.