Email: dmbarker@ucar.edu
Phone: 303-497-8148
Postal Address: P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO, 80307-3000
Shipping Address: 3450 Mitchell Lane, Boulder, CO, 80307-3000

Professional Interests

Hi! Welcome to my NCAR web-page. I am a member of MMM's Data Assimilation Group. I arrived at NCAR in 1999 following 6 years at the UK Met. Office, and a previous life studying astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics in academia. My research interests are a) Advanced Data Assimilation techniques (4D-Var, ensemble filters), b) Polar NWP, and c) The Utilization of High-Resolution Satellite Radiances. I also lead NCAR's contribution to the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) community model's variational data assimilation effort (based on the "WRF-Var" system), and lead WRF's Advanced Data Assimilation Working Group (WG10).

Recent Publications

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Xiao, Q., Kuo, Y., Ma, Z., Huang, W., Huang, X., Zhang, X., Barker, D. M., Michalakes, J., Dudhia, J., 2008: Application of an adiabatic WRF adjoint to the investigation of the May 2004 McMurdo, Antarctica, severe wind event. Monthly Weather Review, 136, doi: 10.1175/2008MWR2235.1, 3696-3713.

Xiao, Q., Kuo, Y., Ma, Z., Huang, W., Huang, X., Zhang, X., Barker, D. M., Michalakes, J., 2008: Development of the WRF adjoint modeling system and its application to the investigation of the May 2004 McMurdo Antarctica severe wind event. Monthly Weather Review, 136, doi: 10.1175/2008MWR2235.1, 3696-3713.

Wang, X., Barker, D. M., Snyder, C., Hamill, T. M., 2008: A hybrid ETKF-3DVAR data assimilation scheme for the WRF model. Part I: Observing system simulation experiment. Monthly Weather Review.

Wang, X., Barker, D. M., Snyder, C., Hamill, T. M., 2008: A hybrid ETKF-3DVAR data assimilation scheme for the WRF model. Part II: Real observation experiments. Monthly Weather Review.

Huang, X., Xiao, Q., Barker, D. M., Zhang, X., Michalakes, J., Huang, W., Henderson, T., Bray, J., Chen, Y., Ma, Z., Dudhia, J., Guo, Y., Zhang, X., Won, D., Lin, H., Kuo, Y., 2008: Four-dimensional variational data assimilation for WRF: Formulation and preliminary results. Monthly Weather Review. (Submitted).

Dale Barker's Vitae