by Miranti Indri Hastuti, May 2026 The importance of clouds Clouds are central to the atmosphere. They regulate the Earth’s energy balance, transport heat and moisture, and drive high-impact weather…Read More >
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Surface flux estimation and model error
by Ross Bannister, April 2026 The circulation of the atmosphere plays an important role in the global distribution of trace gases, including carbon dioxide, methane, and other, perhaps less well-known,…Read More >
Teaching a Neural Network to Smooth the Ocean model reanalyses
by Sukun Cheng, March 2026 To understand historical ocean changes, researchers produce reanalyses that reconstruct past states by combining numerical models with historical observations. Over the last century, observation quality…Read More >
The critical role of cross-variable covariances in high-resolution data assimilation
by Ravi Shankar Nemani, March 2026 In the pursuit of accurate initial conditions for Numerical Weather Prediction, the specification of the background error covariance matrix, commonly referred to as the…Read More >
Can you explain that again? Connecting explainable AI and data assimilation in Earth sciences
By Ieuan Higgs, February 2026 Perception of AI Artificial intelligence (AI) has become closely associated, in the public imagination, with large language models (LLMs). From a user perspective, AI chatbots such…Read More >
Gaussian anamorphosis for log-normal distributions
By Yumeng Chen, January 2026. Limitations of the normal distribution in data assimilation Operational data assimilation methods typically perform best when both background (forecast) and observation errors can be approximated…Read More >
Improving How We Represent the Land in Earth System Models
By Natalie Douglas, January 2026 A recent community paper, Parameter Estimation in Land Surface Models: Challenges and Opportunities with Data Assimilation and Machine Learning, addresses a deceptively simple question with…Read More >
New student introduction 2025 – Tom Bayliss White
Last but not least of the new DARC students starting this year. Tom Bayliss White is a new PhD student working in the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at…Read More >
New DARC PhD students in 2025
New academic year and new PhD students join DARC at University of Reading. Read on about their background and their topic of research Maori Inagawa is a first year PhD…Read More >
11th International Symposium on Data Assimilation
By Alison Fowler At the end of September, I joined approximately 100 scientists from operational centres and academia, each contributing to progress in data assimilation. Together in Melbourne for the…Read More >
