Peter Jan van Leeuwen
Professor in Data assimilation
Associate editor Monthly Weather Review (see here )
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)