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280352 VU Data Assimilation and Ensemble Methods (2023W)

6.00 ECTS (4.00 SWS), SPL 28 - Erdwissenschaften, Meteorologie - Geophysik und
Continuous assessment of course work
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Details

max. 20 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

UZA II: Room 2G542

Lectures on Tuesday 10:30 - 12:00 and 12:30 - 14:00.
Excercises on Tuesday 14:10 - 15:10.

First lectures on and first excercises on 10 October 2023.
17 October: No lectures and no exercises.
7 November: No lectures, but exercises will take place.

First oral exam: 28 and 29 November.
Second oral exam: Date tba.

  • Tuesday 03.10. 10:30 - 12:00 Ort in u:find Details
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Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The students will familiarize themselves with common data-assimilation and ensemble-prediction methods. They shall understand the underlying theory as well as the application. Topics that the students will develop a deeper understanding of include observation operators, Ensemble-Kalman-Filters, adjoint models, 3D-VAR & 4D-VAR, and ensemble perturbations.
The exercises will focus on applying the methods introduced in the lecture using simple numerical examples. Python and jupyter-notebooks.

Assessment and permitted materials

Students have to pass two graded oral exams. The first will occur at the end of November and the second at the end of the semster. The students will also have to complete assigned tasks at home and participate in the exercises. These assigned tasks will also be graded.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Die final grade is a weighted mean of the two oral exams and the graded homework assignments. Each of the oral exams counts for 35%, and the homework assignments for 30% of the final grade. The students need to attend at least 80% of the exercises.

Grade 5: < 50%
Grade 4: 50-62,5%;
Grade 3: 62,5-75%;
Grade 2: 75-87,5%;
Grade 1: > 87,5%

Examination topics

Entire lecture content (slides uploaded in Moodle)

Reading list

Unfortunately, there are no suitable textbooks.

Association in the course directory

PM-DA-EPS

Last modified: Fr 15.12.2023 12:06