by Peter Jan van Leeuwen(1), April 2025 (1): Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Colorado, USA In a blog post dated 16 April 2025, Amos Lawless provided a valuable…Read More >
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Simultaneous estimation of the atmosphere and ocean states
by Amos Lawless, April 2025 Why is the ocean relevant for weather forecasts? The weather we experience each day is influenced not just by what is happening throughout the atmosphere,…Read More >
The least squares method in data assimilation
by Ross Bannister, April 2025 The method of least squares (or MLS, Barlow, 1993) is at the very centre of variational data assimilation (or “Var”, Schlatter, 2000). Var is one…Read More >
Hybrid modeling of sea ice column physics
by Giovanni De Cillis(1) and Alberto Carrassi(1,2),March 2025 (1): Dept of physics, U Bologna, IT (2): Visiting Professor at U of Reading, UK Our research aims to develop a hybrid,…Read More >
Understanding the Land Surface Temperature retrievals from satellites
by Riccardo Monfardini, March 2025 In this blog post, I will briefly introduce how land surface temperature (LST) is measured from satellites, the associated challenges, and the results. My name…Read More >
Your noise is my signal: using unconventional observations in Data Assimilation
by Javier Amezcua, February 2025 My name is Javier Amezcua and I am currently an Associate Professor at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. I spent 10 years at the University…Read More >
Improving Arctic Sea Ice Forecasts with Ensemble Data Assimilation
by Sukun Cheng, February 2025 The research presented here was carried out during my postdoctoral position at the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC) in Bergen, Norway. My work…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 >
