Read the latest DARC blog. This time it's by Ieuan Higgs: Can you explain that again? Connecting explainable AI and data assimilation in Earth sciences. research.reading.ac.uk/met-darc/202...

The latest blog of the Data Assimilation Research Centre is out. Read about how data assimilation problems can be transformed to account for non-Gaussian distributions using a technique called Gaussian anamorphosis. By Yumeng Chen. research.reading.ac.uk/met-darc/202...

DARC's latest blog is out: "Improving How We Represent the Land in Earth System Models" by Natalie Douglas. Read about the importance of parameter estimation in land system models. research.reading.ac.uk/met-darc/202...

We've published a new blog post! Alison Fowler shares her experience at the ISDA 2025 conference. Read it here: research.reading.ac.uk/met-darc/202...

A big congratulations to DARC student Laura Risley, who defended her thesis yesterday, "Assimilation of future ocean current measurements using satellites", at the University of Reading.

Join us at the University of Reading for NASA Observe The Moon Night 2025! Saturday, 4 October, Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading. www.reading.ac.uk/news/2025/Un...

Many congratulations to DARC's Dr. Ieuan Higgs for successfully defending his PhD thesis this week! "Machine learning and complex network techniques and to inform marine biogeochemistry modelling and data assimilation"

The latest DARC blog is all about the last month's NCEO/DARC data assimilation training course. The course has received very good feedback! Thanks for support from @NERC @nceoscience.bsky.social and @UniRdg. research.reading.ac.uk/met-darc/202...

Excellent BBC weather article today on AI in weather forecasting. www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

Read one of our latest DARC blogs on a new mathematical preconditioning method applied to an iterative problem to make it efficient to solve. By Jemima Tabeart. research.reading.ac.uk/met-darc/202...

Read one of our latest DARC blogs on the difficultly of initialising machine-learned models with data assimilation. By Sarah Dance. research.reading.ac.uk/met-darc/202...

This week’s DARC blog is written by Sarah Dance on the topic: “The value of observations for weather prediction in the age of machine learning”. You can read it here: research.reading.ac.uk/met-darc/202...

The latest DARC blog by Tristan Quaife discusses The Terrestrial Carbon Cycle Assimilation System exploring its development and potential applications. Links to the TCCAS are available at the end of the blog if you want to use it yourself! research.reading.ac.uk/met-darc/202...

In Reading on Saturday 17th May? Why not pop along to the University of Reading community festival 2025? www.reading.ac.uk/about/local-...

In our latest DARC blog post, Peter Jan van Leeuwen presents new work on advanced data assimilation methods for estimating the coupled atmosphere-ocean system, highlighting approaches for capturing cross-scale correlations. research.reading.ac.uk/met-darc/202...

DARC's latest blog is out. Read Amos Lawless's blog about why the ocean plays an important role in weather forecasting and how statistical relationships between the ocean and the atmosphere should be accounted for in coupled data assimilation. research.reading.ac.uk/met-darc/202...

Read about the method of least squares and its central role in data assimilation in our latest blog, by Ross Bannister. research.reading.ac.uk/met-darc/202...

Read DARC's latest blog by Giovanni De Cillis and Alberto Carrassi to find out how a machine-learning model can enhance a traditional model of sea ice and reduce model error significantly. research.reading.ac.uk/met-darc/202...

Read about the challenges of estimating land surface temperatures from satellite -- see DARC's latest blog written by Riccardo Monfardini. research.reading.ac.uk/met-darc/202...

Read Javier Amezcua's new blog about how analysing distant explosions can help us forecast the weather. research.reading.ac.uk/met-darc/202...

2 PhD studentships are being advertised in the Maths for our Future Climate PhD programme at the Univ of Reading. "Can we improve past climate state estimates using more recent observations?" (See separate post for the other project) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV076/p...

2 PhD studentships are being advertised in the Maths for our Future Climate PhD programme at the Univ of Reading. "Large ensembles of machine learning forecasts for advanced nonlinear filters in atmospheric data assimilation" (See separate post for the other project) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV093/p...

We are looking for a post-doc to work on sea ice data assimilation: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Data assimilation in sea ice models is challenging! Read Sukun Cheng's new blog on the assimilation of sea ice thickness and concentration observations. research.reading.ac.uk/met-darc/202...