Advanced Numerical Techniques for Modeling and Data Assimilation of Atmosphere and Oceans

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue explores “advanced” or “novel” numerical modeling and data assimilation techniques to assess weather, specifically the climate of the atmosphere and oceans.  The aim is to provide a platform for presenting and testing new ideas and methods where authors will be able to express their creativity without restrictions and verifications so necessary for establishing scientific rigor. The regular process of creating, testing, and transitioning into operations of new ideas is often connected with practical limitations that can obstruct and discourage such creative efforts. The objective of this Special Issue is, therefore, to strongly encourage creative endeavors. We are looking for techniques that may bring challenges, but can potentially lead to fundamental breakthroughs, i.e., methods which are still in a relatively early experimental stage, but promise major advancements, and even paradigm shifts. The examples may include, but are not limited to:

• new approaches to quasi-uniform gridding of the sphere;
• unstructured and moving meshes;
• grid adaptation techniques;
• parallelization in time;
• exponential time integration;
• discontinuous Galerkin methods;
• nonlinear data assimilation;
• data assimilation techniques based on the non-Gaussian statistics;
• methods for improving preconditioning in variational data assimilation;
• ML/AI as emulation for standard techniques in weather forecasting and data assimilation;
• application of recent advancements in ML/AI, such as “next generation” of reservoir computing or deep learning clustering for modeling and data assimilation;
• multigrid techniques;
• evolutionary programing;
• application of quantum computing.

Dr. Miodrag Rancic
Dr. Ivana Tosic
Guest Editors

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