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
To search my complete list of publications, please see The NESL Publications Search.
Presentations:
¤ WRF-Var
Overview Lecture DVD (June 3rd 2005, GPS Colloquim, Taipei, Taiwan)
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WRF-Var
Overview (from Jan 26th 2006 WRF Tutorial)
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Variational and
Ensemble Data Assimilation in AMPS (expanded 2005 WMO DA Symosium in Prague)
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Specification
and Use of Forecast Error Covariances in WRF-Var (Taiwanese CWB, 3 June 2005)
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Presentations from
the 1st MMM/CSU-CIRA Data Assimilation Workshop (19 September 2005)
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