Data Assimilation Education Forum
AMS Annual Meeting

Monday, January 21, 2008
1:30-5:00 p.m.

Co-Sponsors: Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology (OFCM)
AMS Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)
AMS Commission on Education and Human Resources (EDU)
AMS Committee on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography

Co-Chairs/Organizers: Ms. Mary M. Cairns, WAF and OFCM
Lt Col Mark Fitzgerald, USAF and OFCM
Ms. Margaret R. McCalla, OFCM

Part I: An Overview of Data Assimilation
Chairperson: Mary M. Cairns, NOAA/OFCM, Silver Spring, MD

• What is data assimilation? A tutorial.
  Andrew Jones, Colorado State University/Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO
  

• Challenges and practical applications of data assimilation in numerical weather prediction.
  Stephen Lord, NOAA/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD

• Identifying current and future shortfalls in data assimilation education.
  Michele Rienecker, NASA, Greenbelt, MD

Part II: Education Capabilities Panel: Developing the Data Assimilation Skills to Meet Research, Development and Operational Needs
Moderator: Lt Col Mark Fitzgerald and Margaret R. McCalla, NOAA/OFCM, Silver Spring, MD

• Dr. Richard Clark (Millersville University)

• Dr. Eugenia Kalnay (University of Maryland)

• Ms. Patricia A. Phoebus (Naval Research Laboratory)

• Dr. Jeffrey L. Anderson (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Section Head, Data Assimilation Research Section)