Data Assimilation & Prediction

People

DA Group Photo
Group photo taken at Bar Louie at Fort Collins on March 27, 2019. From left to right: Milija Zupanski, Ting-Chi Wu, Kyle Hilburn, Chris Slocum, Alex Libardoni, Steve Fletcher, Rute Ferreira, Michael Goodliff, Holli Knutson, Anton Kliewer, Karina Apodaca, and Yoonjin Lee.

Current Members

Name: Milija Zupanski
Contact Info: milija.zupanski@colostate.edu
Title:
Senior Research Scientist,
CIRA DA Group Leader
Name: Steven Fletcher
Contact Info: steven.fletcher@colostate.edu
Title:
Research Scientist/Scholar III
Name: Alex Libardoni
Contact Info: alex.libardoni@colostate.edu
Title:
Name: Jakir Hossen
Contact Info:
Title:

NOAA Data Assimilation Interns

Name: Alex Libardoni
Contact Info: alex.libardoni@colostate.edu
Period: 2017-2018
Now At: CIRA TC Group
Name: Amanda Back
Contact Info: amanda.back@colostate.edu
Period: 2017-2018
Now At: NOAA/ESRL at
Boulder, CO
Name: Matthew Brothers
Contact Info: matthew.brothers@colostate.edu
Period: 2018
Now At: NWS Forecast Office
at Cheyenne, WY

Past Members

Name: Biljana Orescanin
Contact Info: biljana.orescanin@noaa.gov
Now At:
NOAA/NESDIS/STAR/JCSDA
at College Park, MD
Name: James Taylor
Contact Info:
Now At:
RIKEN at Kobe, Japan
Name: Man Zhang
Contact Info: man.zhang@noaa.gov
Now At:
CRIES/GSD at Boulder, CO
Name: Karina Apodaca
Contact Info: karina.apodaca@noaa.gov
Now At:
NOAA/AOML/HRD
at Boulder ,CO
Name: Michael Goodliff
Contact Info:
Now At:
Name: Anton Kliewer
Contact Info:
Now At:
Name: Ting-Chi Wu
Contact Info:
Now At:
Name: Yoonjin Lee
Contact Info:
Now At:

Collaborators

Name: Sid Boukabara
Contact Info: sid.boukabara@noaa.gov
Institute:
NOAA/NESDIS/JCSDA
Name: Paula Brown
Contact Info: paula.brown@colostate.edu
Institute:
Atmos/CSU
Name: Mark DeMaria
Contact Info: mark.demaria@noaa.gov
Institute:
NOAA/NCEP/NHC
Name: John Derber
Contact Info: john.derber@noaa.gov
Institute:
NOAA/NCEP/EMC
Name: Lewis Grasso
Contact Info: john.derber@noaa.gov
Institute:
NOAA/NCEP/EMC
Name: Lewis Grasso
Contact Info: lewis.grasso@colostate.edu
Institute:
CIRA/CSU
Name: Robert Holz
Contact Info: reholz@ssec.wisc.edu
Institute:
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Name: John Knaff
Contact Info: john.knaff@noaa.gov
Institute:
NOAA/NESDIS RAMMB
Name: Sonia Kreidenweis
Contact Info: sonia@atmos.colostate.edu
Institute:
Atmos/CSU
Name: Christian Kummerow
Contact Info: christian.kummerow@colostate.edu
Institute:
CIRA/CSU and Atmos/CSU
Name: Toshihisa Matsui
Contact Info: toshihisa.matsui-1@nasa.gov
Institute:
NASA/GSFC
Name: Steven Miller
Contact Info: steven.miller@colostate.edu
Institute:
CIRA/CSU
Name: Michael Navon
Contact Info: inavon@fsu.edu
Institute:
Department of Scientific Computing,
Florida State University
Name: Seon-Ki Park
Contact Info: spark@ewha.ac.kr
Institute:
Ewha Womans University,
Seoul, South Korea
Name: Richard Pasch
Contact Info: richard.j.pasch@noaa.gov
Institute:
NOAA/NCEP/NHC
Name: Christa Peters-Lidard
Contact Info: christa.d.peters-lidard@nasa.gov
Institute:
JAMESTEC, Yokohama, Japan
Name: Vijay Tallapragada
Contact Info: vijay.tallapragada@noaa.gov
Institute:
NOAA/NCEP/EMC
Name: Sue van den Heever
Contact Info: sue@atmos.colostate.edu
Institute:
Atmos/CSU
Name: Jun Wang
Contact Info: jwang7@unl.edu
Institute:
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Name: Jinglong Zhang
Contact Info: jzhang@atmos.und.edu
Institute:
University of North Dakota
Name: Sara Zhang
Contact Info: sara.q.zhang@nasa.gov
Institute:
NASA/GSFC
Name: Dusanka Zupanski
Contact Info:
Institute:
Weather Assimilation Captain
at Spire Global, Inc
Name: Xinfeng Gao
Contact Info: Xinfeng.Gao@colostate.edu
Institute:
Department of
Mechanical Engineering/CSU
Name: Jason Sippel
Contact Info: jason.sippel@noaa.gov
Institute:
NOAA/AOML/HRD
Name: Evan Kalina
Contact Info: evan.kalina@noaa.gov
Institute:
NOAA/ESRL, UCAR/DTC, and CIRES/CU-Boulder

Visitors

Name: Rute Ferreira
Dates: November 20, 2018 – May, 2019
Institute:
National Institute for Space Research &
Center for Weather Forecast and Climate Studies, Brazil
Topic:

Lightning Data Assimilation
Name: Vanderli Rocha de Vargas Jr.
Dates: August 6, 2018 – January, 2019
Institute:
Center for Weather Forecast and Climate Studies, Brazil
Topic:

Lightning Data Assimilation
Name: Sojung Park
Dates: July, 2016 Oct-Dec, 2015
Institute:
Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
Topic:
Parameter Estimation with WRF-Noah-MP and MLEF
Name: Sujeong Lim
Dates: July-Aug, 2014 Jun-July, 2013
Institute:
Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
Topic:
Assimilation of real chemistry observations (ozone, NO2, SO2, etc) from OMI with MLEF
Name: Ebony Lee
Dates: Jan-Feb, July, 2016 & Jan-Feb, Jun-Aug 2015
Institute:
Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
Topic:

Assimilation of GEMS radiances with WRF-Chem and MLEF
Name: Seungwon Chung
Dates:
Jun-Aug, 2011
Institute:
Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
Topic:

Assimilation of synthetic ozone observations with MLEF