Peter Jan van Leeuwen

Professor in Data assimilation

Associate editor Monthly Weather Review (see here )

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New Master in Data Assimilation and Inverse Modelling for Geosciences

Yes, we have University approval for this exciting new master course.

Download the draft brochure: MSc Brochure and the programme specifications: Programme Specifications

Research areas

• Advanced data assimilation in non-linear models (e.g. particle filters)
• Agulhas system
• Geophysical fluid dynamics
• Data analysis
• Perturbation methods
• Low-frequency (period a few minutes) wave generation by breaking wind waves

Sea-surface height evolution in the Agulhas area obtained from assimilating

altimeter sea-surface height in a 5-layer QG ocean model using

Sequential Importance Resampling (SIR)

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