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Dr. Alan Blumberg, professor and director of the Center for Maritime Systems at Stevens Institute of Technology, is preparing to embark on a six week sabbatical to Europe, to study bodies of water primarily in Italy and Paris as well as the Gulf of Eilat in Israel and tides in Normandy. The trip is sponsored by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). In addition, Dr. Blumberg has been invited to join UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission...

By Hoffman, Ross N Ponte, Rui M; Kostelich, Eric J; Blumberg, Alan; Szunyogh, Istvan; Vinogradov, Sergey V; Henderson, John M ABSTRACT Data assimilation approaches that use ensembles to approximate a Kalman filter have many potential advantages for oceanographic applications. To explore the extent to which this holds, the Estuarine and Coastal Ocean Model (ECOM) is coupled with a modern data assimilation method based on the local ensemble transform Kalman filter (LETKF), and a series of...