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., Lim, E., Won, D., Sun, J., Lee, W., Lee, M., Lee, W., Cho, J., Kuo, Y., Barker, D. M., Lee, D., Lee, H. S., 2007: A successful collaboration between research institutions and operational center: Realization of doppler radar data assimilation with WRF 3D-VAR in KMA operational forecasting. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. (In Press).

Xiao, Q., Kuo, Y., Ma, Z., Huang, W., Huang, X., Zhang, X., Barker, D. M., Michalakes, J., 2007: 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. (Submitted).

Xiao, Q., Kuo, Y., Sun, J., Lee, W., Barker, D. M., Lim, E., 2007: An approach of reflectivity data assimilation and its assessment with the inland QPF of Typhoon Rusa (2002) at landfall. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 46, 14-22.

Barker, D. M., Rizvi, S. R. H., Powers, J., Manning, K., 2007: The impact of tuned background error covariances in limited-area Antarctic NWP. Meteorlogische Zeitschrift. (Submitted).

Cucurull, L., Kuo, Y., Barker, D. M., Rizvi, S. R. H., 2006: Assessing the impact of COSMIC GPS radio occultation data on weather analysis and short-term forecasts over the Antarctic. Monthly Weather Review, 134, 3283-3296.

Dale Barker's Vitae