Schedule for: 23w5093 - Mathematical Approaches of Atmospheric Constituents Data Assimilation and Inverse Modeling

Beginning on Sunday, March 19 and ending Friday March 24, 2023

All times in Banff, Alberta time, MDT (UTC-6).

Sunday, March 19
16:00 - 17:30 Check-in begins at 16:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
19:00 - 21:00 Ice Breaker (TCPL Foyer)
Monday, March 20
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
08:45 - 09:00 Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Staff
A brief introduction to BIRS with important logistical information, technology instruction, and opportunity for participants to ask questions.
(TCPL 201)
09:00 - 09:40 Lori Bruhwiler: NOAA efforts in chemical data assimilation and inverse modeling, an overview (TCPL 201)
09:40 - 10:20 Nicolas Bousserez: CAMS air quality and GHG and methane monitoring and inversion (Online)
10:40 - 10:50 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:50 - 11:30 Daven Henze: Mathematics of chemical data assimilation and inverse modeling (Online)
11:30 - 12:00 Shay Gilpin: Continuous formulation of advective dynamics and variance loss (TCPL 201)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(TCPL 201)
14:00 - 14:20 Group Photo
Meet in foyer of TCPL to participate in the BIRS group photo. The photograph will be taken outdoors, so dress appropriately for the weather. Please don't be late, or you might not be in the official group photo!
(TCPL Foyer)
14:25 - 14:55 Kazuyuki Miyazaki: Tropospheric chemical reanalysis (Online)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 16:00 Hendrik Elbern: On the observability quest for chemistry data assimilation and emission inversion (TCPL 201)
16:00 - 16:30 Anne Caroline Lange: The representativeness of observations and emissions for air quality analyses on regional scales (TCPL 201)
16:30 - 17:00 Brad Weir: Constituent data assimilation plans of the GMAO at NASA (TCPL 201)
17:00 - 17:30 Arthur Mizzi: Assimilation of GEO and LEO Satellite Retrievals in WRF-Chem (15 km and 4 km) with "Top-Down" Emissions Estimation (Online)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
19:30 - 20:00 Summary and discussion about perspectives and chemical data assimilation (TCPL 201)
Tuesday, March 21
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
08:50 - 09:30 Avelino Arellano: Challenges and opportunities in inverse modeling: A case with Carbon Monoxide sources (Online)
09:30 - 10:00 Dylan Jones: Characterizing model errors in inverse modelling of CH4 and CO2 fluxes using weak constraint 4D-Var (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Olalekan Balogun: Assessing wildfire emissions of CO using 4D-Var inverse modeling (TCPL 201)
11:00 - 11:30 Adrian Sandu: On variational Fokker-Planck filters and smoothers (Online)
11:30 - 12:00 Di Qi: Reduced-order models and data driven closure for uncertainty quantification and data assimilation (TCPL 201)
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining)
13:00 - 13:30 Hans Chen: Regional CO2 inversion through ensemble-based simultaneous state and parameter estimation (TCPL 201)
13:30 - 14:00 Thomas Lauvaux: From city plumes to oil and gas leaks: technical challenges with current detection and quantification techniques (TCPL 201)
14:15 - 14:45 Saroja Polavarapu: Coupling of meteorology and tracers in data assimilation systems (TCPL 201)
14:45 - 15:15 Jinwoong Kim: Development of the ECCC’s national carbon flux inversion system (TCPL 201)
15:15 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 16:00 Zhen Qu: Applying analytical inversion and 4D-Var to estimate sources of methane and air pollutants (TCPL 201)
16:00 - 16:30 Dana McGuffin: Using process control theory to estimate sea spray emissions in GEOS-Chem (TCPL 201)
16:30 - 17:00 Dorit Hammerling: Detecting, localizing and quantifying methane emissions on oil and gas facilities using local sensors (TCPL 201)
17:00 - 17:30 Tianfeng Chai: Inverse modeling with HYSPLIT Lagrangian dispersion model (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
19:30 - 20:00 Summary and discussion about inverse modeling (TCPL 201)
Wednesday, March 22
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
08:50 - 09:30 Steven Fletcher: Utilizing machine learning to optimize the choice of error distribution in data assimilation (TCPL 201)
09:30 - 10:00 Alban Farchi: Online model error correction with neural networks – from theory to the ECMWF forecasting system (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Joffrey Dumont Le Brazidec: Towards CO2 plume detection and source inversion from satellites using deep neural networks (TCPL 201)
11:00 - 11:30 Haiyan Cheng: Overview of the role of Machine learning in atmospheric research (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(TCPL 201)
13:00 - 18:00 Free Afternoon (Banff National Park)
18:00 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Thursday, March 23
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
08:50 - 09:20 Tijana Janjić Pfander: Convective scale data assimilation perspectives (Online)
09:20 - 09:50 Yvonne Ruckstuhl: Parameter estimation in numerical weather prediction (TCPL 201)
09:50 - 10:20 Discussion session on ML (Online)
10:20 - 10:40 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:40 - 11:10 Jeffrey Anderson: A Quantile conserving ensemble filtering framework (Online)
11:10 - 11:50 Vincent Martinez: A feedback-control paradigm for parameter estimation in dissipative PDEs (Online)
11:50 - 13:00 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining)
13:00 - 13:30 Richard Menard: Analysis error statistics estimation and simple offline ensemble AQ analysis (TCPL 201)
13:30 - 14:00 Annika Vogel: Potential and limitations of assimilating multiple collocated datasets with optimal error estimates (TCPL 201)
14:00 - 14:30 Michael Sitwell: A Framework for the comparison of A priori and A posteriori error Variance estimation and tuning schemes (TCPL 201)
14:30 - 15:10 Olivier Pannekoucke: PKF tour of data assimilation (TCPL 201)
15:10 - 15:40 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:40 - 16:10 Sina Voshtani: PvKF Assimilation of GOSAT Methane in the Hemispheric CMAQ: Design and results using optimal error statistics with an application for emissions inversion (TCPL 201)
16:10 - 16:30 Kayo Ide: Lagrangian data assimilation (TCPL 201)
16:30 - 17:20 Summary and discussion about Geophysical data assimilation and Parametric Kalman filtering (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Friday, March 24
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 10:30 Dylan Jones: Wrap up session – General discussion and recommendation (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Checkout by 11AM
5-day workshop participants are welcome to use BIRS facilities (TCPL ) until 3 pm on Friday, although participants are still required to checkout of the guest rooms by 11AM.
(Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (TCPL 201)