Session 1 |
| | An Overview of Data Assimilation |
| | Chair: Mary M. Cairns, NOAA/Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology, Silver Spring, MD
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| 1:30 PM | | Welcome: M. Cairns 
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| 1:45 PM | 1.1 | What is data assimilation? A tutorial
Andrew Jones, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO |
| 2:15 PM | 1.2 | Challenges and practical applications of data assimilation in numerical weather prediction
Stephen J. Lord, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD |
| 2:30 PM | 1.3 | Identifying current and future shortfalls in data assimilation education
Michele M. Rienecker, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD |