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 >
DARC
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 >
Shedding some light on DARC
Ross Bannister, November 2023 Data assimilation as a scientific tool for weather forecasting and beyond In the early 2000s few academic groups around the world were doing research into the…Read More >
