ALATNET Seminar on Data Assimilation

Lecture 1

Observation characteristics and pre-processing

• 1.1 Survey of observation types, observation sub-types, observation variables, the likely information content with NWP and observation errors:
  a. Conventional observations
  b. Satellite observation and bias correction issue
• 1.2 Observation monitoring

Lecture 2

Observation use

• 2.1 Screening
• 2.2 Quality control
• 2.3 Observation operators, adjoints and observation cost function