CADRE-Reading themed seminar

July 10 2026

Theme: Satellite and radar data assimilation

1) Xingchao Chen (CADRE)

Title: All-Sky Radiance Data Assimilation for Tropical Cyclogenesis Forecasting: Current Successes and a Path Toward Better Performance

2) Zhuoya Ni (University of Reading)

Title: Construction of Observation Errors for HIRAS Water Vapor Channels in All-Sky Assimilation Using the CMA-MESO Model

3) Nathan Snook (CADRE)

Title: Implementation and Optimization of the Multi-Grid Beta Filter for Radar DA for the 3DEnVar MPAS-JEDI Framework

May 15 2026

Theme: Land-atmosphere coupled data assimilation

Aaron Johnson (CADRE)

Title: Toward improved land-atmosphere strongly coupled data assimilation at convective scales: Sampling error characteristics and land surface parameter uncertainty.

Feb. 13 2026

Theme: Radar and satellite data assimilation

1) Miranti Indri Hastuti (U. Reading)

Title: Impact of model resolution on all-sky infrared radiance statistics and cloud-dependent observation error modelling over Indonesia

2) Yunji Zhang (CADRE)

Title: Utilizing PBL Observations from Ground-Based Remote-Sensing Platforms

3) Steven Greybush (CADRE)

Title: Opportunities for Enhancing Data Assimilation for Winter Weather Prediction

Dec. 12 2025

Theme: Data assimilation and machine learning

1) Peter Jan Van Leeuwen (CADRE)

Title: Identifying missing physics using machine learning

2) Eviatar Bach (U. Reading)

Title: Learning enhanced ensemble filters

3) Xuguang Wang (CADRE)

Title: Toward advancing multiscale data assimilation through machine learning

Oct. 24 2025

Theme: Non-Gaussian Observation Errors in Data Assimilation

1) Jonathan Poterjoy (CADRE)

Title: Assimilating Earth system measurements with unknown or error-prone measurement operators

2) Rishabh Bhatt (DARC, Reading)

Title: Estimating spatial observation error correlations for all-sky AMSU-A at ECMWF and UK Met Office

3) Peter Jan Van Leeuwen (CADRE)

Title: Estimation and implementation of non-Gaussian observation errors in existing DA schemes

4) Yumeng Chen (DARC, Reading)

Title: Ensemble Kalman filter in latent space using a variational autoencoder pair