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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:.
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Data Assimilation Education ForumPart II: Education Capabilities Panel January 21, 2008 presented byJeffrey Anderson Senior ScientistNCAR NCAR’s Data Assimilation Research Testbed (DART): Community DA - Education, Exploration, Research, Operations
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 Adaptive Inflation
Research QuikSCAT winds GPS occultations
Operations CWB Rainfall probability 48h track forecast 32 members Scales Very Well! CAM T85 - 80 members
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 jla@ucar.edu • Tim Hoar thoar@ucar.edu • Nancy Collins nancy@ucar.edu