ssc.02

Sponsor(s): Sponsoring Society: SSC; Co-sponsored by ASA Section Stat and Environment

Session Time: 10:30-12:20 Monday

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Session Title: Data Assimilation and Reconstruction in Canadian Environmental Research

Theme Session: No $\quad$ Applied Session: Yes

Organizer: Zwiers, Francis W.  

Session Timing: Opening Remarks by Chair - 5 First Speaker - 30 minutes Second Speaker - 30 minutes Third Speaker - 30 minutes Discussant - 10 minutes Floor Discusion - 5 minutes

Chair: Zwiers, Francis W.  

1. Assimilation of Data into Dynamical Models of the Coastal Ocean $\quad$ Thompson, Keith R.  

2. Background Error Statistics Modelling in a 3D Variational Data Assimilation Scheme: Estimation and Impact On the Resulting Weather Forecasts $\quad$ Gauthier, Pierre  

3. Optimal Estimation of Climate Parameters and Climate Data Reconstruction $\quad$ Shen, Samuel S.  

Discussant: Switzer, Paul  

List of speakers who are nonmembers: Thompson, Shen, Gauthier