Our recent NERC/NCEO/DARC Training course on data assimilation and its interface with machine learning took place from 9-13 June 2025 at the University of Reading and online. It was wonderful…Read More >
How computational limitations can lead to fun and new mathematics!
by Jemima M. Tabeart, TU Eindhoven When designing data assimilation algorithms, we want to exploit access to lots of parallel computational resource, while ensuring that we can obtain our results…Read More >
The value of observations for weather prediction in the age of machine learning
by Sarah L Dance A few months ago, on 25th February 2025, our colleagues at ECMWF (European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts) took their deep-learning-based global weather forecasting system, known…Read More >
American Meteorological Society’s Annual Meeting 2025
By Rishabh Bhatt This year’s American Meteorological Society’s 105th Annual meeting was held in New Orleans from 12th – 16th January 2025. The primary aim of these annual meetings is…Read More >
Data Assimilation for Atmospheric Composition
By Melanie Ades The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) is one of six data services under the Copernicus Earth Observation (EO) programme coordinated by the…Read More >
Meet Our New Lecturer
By Eviatar Bach My name is Eviatar Bach, and I recently started as a Lecturer in Mathematics of Environmental Data Science at Reading. I have a joint appointment between the…Read More >
Improving Soil Moisture Prediction Using Joint State-Parameter Assimilation in JULES
By Visweshwaran Ramesh Accurate soil moisture predictions are essential for effective environmental management, whether it’s preparing for floods or supporting agricultural planning. Soil moisture impacts everything from crop growth to…Read More >
International Symposium on Data Assimilation 2024
By Amos Lawless The week of 21-25 October saw this year’s edition of the International Symposium on Data Assimilation, or ISDA. This is an annual conference that brings together experts…Read More >
Meet Our Newest PhD Students
We’re excited to welcome three new PhD students to the DARC group this academic year. They’ll be tackling different elements of the challenging problem of high-resolution data assimilation. Read on…Read More >
National Earth Observation Conference 2024
By Laura Risley and Ieuan Higgs, October 2024 This year’s National Earth Observation Conference was held in York from 10th – 12th September at the National STEM centre, bringing together…Read More >
