Education and Training
Education and Training: Researchers from the data assimilation groups at CIRA actively participate in training of individuals as part of a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) award intended to increase the number of experts in the field of data assimilation.
The training is being been done in the form of a 1-year paid internship located at CIRA in Fort Collins, Colorado, and it covers both, practical and theoretical aspects of data assimilation. Interns in this position can learn how to use several NOAA models and novel data assimilation techniques and travel to several NOAA labs in the country to interact with other DA scientists. Click here to meet our NOAA DA interns.
Lecture notes from the 2018 DA intern training are available here:
| Date | Topic | Lecturer |
| December 4 and 6, 2017 | Introduction to Data Assimilation & Linear Algebra and Functional Analysis | Milija Zupanski |
| December 13 and 20, 2017 | Cost Function and Linear Data Assimilation & Optimization | Milija Zupanski |
| January 2 and 9, 2018 | Data Assimilation Method (Part I, Part II, and Part III) | Milija Zupanski |
| January 11, 2018 | Dynamical Balance and Related Topics | Milija Zupanski |
| January 16, 2018 | Cloud-Resolving and Satellite Data Assimilation (Part I and Part II) | Milija Zupanski |
| January 18, 2018 | Coupled Data Assimilation (Part I and Part II) | Milija Zupanski |
| January 26, 2018 | Verification of Results from Data Assimilation (Part I and Part II) | Milija Zupanski |
| February 13, 2018 | An Introduction to Gridpoint Statistical Interpolation (GSI) | Ting-Chi Wu |
| February 15, 2018 | Building and Running GSI on S4 | Ting-Chi Wu |
| February 20, 2018 | MURI: Advancing Littoral Zone Aerosol Data Assimilation in Regime-Dependent Flows | Anton Kliewer |
| March 13, 2018 | An Introduction to Stochastic Processes | Anton Kliewer |
| March 20, 2018 | Introduction to Data Assimilation and Applications within NOAA (Part I, Part II, Part III, and Part IV) | Karina Apodaca |
| March 20 and 27, 2018 | Single Observation Experiment with GSI (Part I and Part II) | Milija Zupanski |
In addition, some of our researchers travel to conduct teaching in data assimilation summer schools hosted by several national and international institutions like Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea [Link]. When available, educational opportunities are listed in the News section and in the CIRA Employment Opportunities site