2010 Workshop:Data Assimilation
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Ionospheric Data Assimilation: Driver Estimation
Location, Date/Time and Duration
2 hours
Conveners
Workshop Categories
Altitudes: IT - Latitudes: global - Inst/Model: modeling - Other:
Format of the Workshop
Short Presentations
Estimated attendance
25
Conflicts with other workshops or Requested Specific Days
none
Special technology requests
Description
In the last several years there has been a growing research effort to estimate the underlying physical dynamical drivers in the ionosphere-thermosphere (IT) system from both direct observations, and indirectly via data assimilation and imaging techniques.
This workshop will focus on the interplay and interconnection that exists between the large amount of IT data available for analysis, data assimilation algorithms that organize the data into 3D time evolving maps of electron density, methods that determine what external and internal physical drivers produced the electron density maps, and first principle models that aim improve our understanding of the physics of the near-earth space environment. In particular, the questions that are addressed are: 1) what physics can be investigated by making simultaneous use of all these data, and modeling techniques, and 2) what is the best way to combine all these different forms of data, analyses and models to get at a comprehensive understanding of the physics? It is hoped that a discussion of these and related questions will lead to a way forward by which various researchers who have expertise in these related areas can work together to advance our understanding of the IT system.
The structure of the workshop will be as follows: The first half of the workshop will provide presentations on the current state of the field, recent results and methodologies. The second half of the workshop will focus on how we can cooperatively develop both a simulation and real experimental “validation” test bed that can be used as a tool to determine how accurately the various methods are capable of recovering the underlying physical drivers. Finally the last part of the workshop will be a discussion on where go next, and should we hold an external 2-3 day focused meeting on this topic?
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