Teaching

Teaching for 2020/21

·         MA3NAT - Numerical Analysis II - Numerical Linear Algebra (Autumn term)

Previous teaching

·         Data assimilation for MPECDT course

 

·         Provision of simple models to illustrate data assimilation.
These models are freely available to download for educational use and personal study.
 

·         Summer schools in data assimilation:

o   May 2002 - NATO Advanced Study Institute, Data Assimilation for the Earth System. Maratea, Italy.

o   August 2004 - ENVISAT summer school, Earth System Monitoring and Modelling. Frascati, Italy.

o   September 2004 - ISSAOS summer school, Atmospheric Data Assimilation. L'Aquila, Italy.

o   August 2006 - EO summer school, Earth System Monitoring and Modelling. Frascati, Italy.

o   August 2010 – EO summer school, Earth System Monitoring and Modelling. Frascati, Italy.

o   August 2016 - EO summer school, Earth System Monitoring and Modelling. Frascati, Italy.

§  Lecture 1 – An introduction to data assimilation

§  Lecture 2 – Variational data assimilation and the ensemble Kalman filter

§  Lecture 3 – Applications of data assimilation and current challenges

o   August 2018 - EO summer school, Earth System Monitoring and Modelling. Frascati, Italy.

§  Lecture slides are similar to the ones above. Videos of the lectures are online here.

 

 

Useful resources 

·         Data assimilation: Aims and basic concepts, by N.K. Nichols, published in Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Data Assimilation for the Earth System, Maratea, Italy, June 2002.

·         ECMWF lecture notes on data assimilation.

·         Saroja Polavarapu lecture notes.

Admin

I currently perform the following admin role:

·         Programme director for Mathematics and Meteorology