Jeffrey Anderson

Dr. Anderson heads the NCAR Data Assimilation Research Section (DAReS) that was founded to create and to then lead a research community for data assimilation where individuals benefit from sharing ideas, methodologies, and software tools as well as access to a data assimilation testbed. NCAR has a large number of researchers for whom data assimilation is an essential part of their ongoing or planned research. New developments in theoretical data assimilation and in software engineering are making collaborations between data assimilation experts, modelers, observational specialists and statisticians easier and more productive than was possible in the past. The primary goal of DAReS is to continue to advance the theory and practice of ensemble data assimilation. Also, DAReS accelerates the progress of many other NCAR projects by providing a centralized data assimilation expertise which can be coordinated with existing observational and modeling expertise.