Final Call for Abstracts for
Advances in Data Assimilation for Earth System Science
MOCA Joint Assembly
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
19-24 July 2009
Abstract Submission Deadline: Friday, 23 January 2009
For further information, please go to:
http://www.moca-09.org/e/J21.shtml
The International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences
(IAMAS), the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the
Oceans (IAPSO), and the International Association for the Cryospheric
Sciences (IACS) announce the final call for submissions to session J21,
"Advances in Data Assimilation for Earth System Science," to be held at
the MOCA Joint Assembly, 19-24 July 2009 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
(http://www.moca-09.org). The abstract submission deadline is Friday, 23
January 2009.
Session Description:
Data Assimilation is a key technique in Earth Science, allowing the
exploitation of the vast quantity of measurements of the Earth System.
Data assimilation can organize the wealth of data from both satellite
and in situ platforms to analyze the current and past state of the
atmosphere, ocean and cryosphere and form the basis of improved
forecasts from the meso to the global scale. Abstract submissions
relating to cryospheric and arctic assimilation are invited.
The session will bring together scientists working across a broad range
of subject areas; particular topics will include:
- Advanced assimilation methods, including variational and
ensemble-based approaches;
- Improved use of observations: adaptive observing methods, calculation
of observation sensitivities, observing system experiments and
observing system simulation experiments, and validation metrics;
- Assimilation of data from new satellite instruments, such as COSMIC,
CloudSat, IASI, OCO and ADM-Aeolus; and
- Applications to weather and climate prediction, oceanography,
meso-scale and cloud-scale processes, atmospheric chemistry, the middle
atmosphere and the cryosphere.
The abstract submission deadline for this and all other sessions is
Friday, 23 January 2009.
For further information, including submission guidelines, please go to:
http://www.moca-09.org/e/J21.shtml.