I listened to the NPR story “For Manufacturing Jobs, Workers Brush Up On Math”, in which the thesis of the…
Craig Bishop: The Secrets of Model/Background Error Covariance Revealed
This is my first content post for the satellite data assimilation summer school, and the first big insights that I’ve…
Satellite Data Assimilation Summer School.
I arrived in Santa Fe earlier this afternoon, where I will be spending the next two weeks with some of…
My New Postdoc
I had been working at NSSL only since last September. My work has gone well. I’ve learned a lot of…
Reality Check at SIAM UQ
I was at the SIAM Uncertainty Quantification conference on April 2 and 3rd, and after pondering my experience there for…
Interplay between Mathematical and Physical Reasoning
One of the challenges of doing interdisciplinary work is the constant back and forth between mathematical understanding and, for lack…
Is there a place in Mathematics for Evidence (Rather than Proof)?
This post will likely make all of my math friends cringe. I asked this question early on in my grad…
Thoughts on Orrell et al (2001)
I wrote a short post yesterday about the notion of error statistics, and recommended a paper by Orrell, Smith, Barkmeijer…
What is Model Error, Anyway?
While working on data assimilation stuff with WRF and it’s variational companion WRFDA, I have been thinking a lot about different types…
Radar Data Assimilation Workshop
This week there was a workshop on methods for assimilating radar data into numerical weather prediction models. Although I’m not…