Context: Joint programme between the UoR and ECMWF:
AFESP U. reading Collaboration
Objective: use satellite data assimilation to estimate land surface model parameters with a focus on soil and vegetation parameters
People:
- UoR: Anne Verhoef (coordinator), Emily Black
- ECMWF: Patricia de Rosnay and the CA Team, Gianpaolo Balsamo and the CP Team
- University of Twente: Yijian Zeng
Full proposal:
Slides
Kick-Off meeting on Monday 4 December at ECMWF
ECMWF: Patricia, Gianpaolo, David, Xabier, Ewan, Souhail, Gabriele, Joe, Sébastien, Florentine
UoR: Anne, Emily
UoT: Yijian
Agenda:
- 10.15-10.25: Introductions by each team member (and should we bring on board further experts, e.g. in ML arena)?
- 10-25-11.00 A brief recap of the project, led by AV with inputs from all involved - slides
- 11.00-11.30 Whether/how it is affected by recent developments (e.g. staff leaving*, new staff in DA-team (PdR), updates to ECLand DA system (GPB), STEMMUS-SCOPE and related projects (YZ)
- 11.30-11.45 How to make sure we find the best candidate, e.g. where to advertise, which network to use and make sure not to duplicate/miss lobbying opportunities
- 11.45-12.00 AOB