The Penn State Center for Advanced Data Assimilation and Predictability Techniques (ADAPT) seeks to integrate and enhance the existing strength and expertise in cutting-edge data assimilation (DA) and predictability research across Penn State which span over several academic colleges (Earth and Mineral Sciences or EMS, Science, Engineering, Agriculture, and Information Science and Technology or IST) and research institutes (ICS, PSIEE and EESI).

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        Events

  • ADAPT Seminar / Meteorology Colloquium
    Dr. Romit Maulik, Assistant Professor in Information Sciences and Technology and co-hire of ICDS at Penn State, presents on "Weather and Climate Emulation with State-of-the-Art Physics-Informed AI Algorithms", 112 Walker at 3:30pm Wed October 16, 2024.

  • ADAPT Seminar
    Dr. Marc Bierkens, chair in Earth Surface Hydrology at the Department of Physical Geography at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, presents on "Large Scale Hydrological and Water Resources Modeling at Utrecht University", 112 Walker at 4:00pm August 15, 2024.

  • 2024 MADA Workshop
    The 2024 Mars Atmosphere Data Assimilation Workshop will take place on Friday, July 26, 2024 in Pasadena, CA and online. Dr. Steven Greybush, ADAPT Executive Team Lead, serves as a co-chair of the workshop.

  • ADAPT Seminar
    Dr. Sharan Majumdar, Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, University of Miami, presents on "Tropical Cyclones at ECMWF: Advanced prediction and data assimilation tests", 529 Walker at 1:30pm May 30, 2024.

  • ADAPT Seminar
    Dr. Michael Ying, ADAPT alumnus and currently affiliated with the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center in Norway, presents on "Introducing NEDAS: A Light-weight and Scalable Python Solution for Ensemble Data Assimilation", 529 Walker at 1:00pm April 23, 2024.

  • ADAPT Seminar / Brown Bag Talk
    Dr. Yaga Richter, Scientist and Special Projects Lead to the NCAR Director, presents on "Earth System Predictability Across Timescales for Climate Resilience", 529 Walker at 2:00pm March 14, 2024.

  • ADAPT Seminar / Meteorology Colloquium
    Dr. Masashi Minimide, ADAPT alumnus and faculty at University of Tokyo, presents on "Multi-Scale Interaction and Predictability of the Moist Convection and Tropical Cyclones Using All-Sky Satellite Data Assimilation", 112 Walker at 3:30pm January 24, 2024.

  • Fall 2023 ADAPT Conference
    Our end of semester group-wide ADAPT meeting is scheduled on December 14, 2023.

  • ADAPT Seminar / Meteorology Colloquium
    Dr. Jon Poterjoy, ADAPT alumnus and faculty at University of Maryland, presents on "Bridging Basic and Applied Data Assimilation Research for Earth System Models", 112 Walker at 3:30pm August 31, 2023.

  • 2023 PSU-UMD Data Assimilation Workshop
    The next iteration of the Penn State / University of Maryland data assimilation workshop took place August 14-15, 2023.

  • Spring 2023 ADAPT Conference
    Our end of semester group-wide ADAPT meeting is scheduled on May 5, 2023.

  • Operations Research Colloquium
    Associate Director Steven Greybush is presenting "Ensemble Data Assimilation: A Paradigm for Improving Predictions" at the Leonhard Building, 4:50-5:50 on March 22, 2023.

  • EarthTalks Seminar: Exploration of Our Solar System
    Monday, Feb 13, 2023 4:00pm, Rm112 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Steven Greybush ( Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, Consortium for Planetary and Exoplanetary Science and Technology, and ADAPT Center, Penn State )

  • Fall 2022 ADAPT Conference
    Our end of semester group-wide ADAPT meeting is scheduled on December 15, 2022.

  • ADAPT Seminar
    Thursday, October 20, 2022 4:30pm, Rm607 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Man-Yau ("Joseph") Chan (Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science and ADAPT Center, Penn State)

  • Summer 2022 ADAPT Conference
    Our end of summer group-wide ADAPT meeting is scheduled on August 17, 2022.

  • Spring 2022 ADAPT Conference
    Our end of semester group-wide ADAPT meeting is scheduled on Thursday, May 5, 2022.

  • Fall 2021 ADAPT Conference
    Our end of semester group-wide ADAPT meeting is scheduled on Thursday, December 16, 2021.

  • Spring 2021 ADAPT Conference
    Our end of semester group-wide ADAPT meeting is scheduled on Wednesday, May 19, 2021.

  • The 9th EnKF Workshop
    *POSTPONED INDEFINITELY* Originally scheduled June 2-3, 2020, Cybertorium of the Westgate Building,Penn State University Park Campus, State College, Pennsylvania, USA PA, 16802, USA

  • ADAPT Monthly Meetup
    ADAPT monthly regular meetups is scheduled on Monday, March 29, 2021 at 5 pm. Please check you email for meeting Zoom link, see you soon!

  • ADAPT Monthly Meetup
    ADAPT monthly regular meetups is scheduled on Friday, February 26, 2021 at 4:45 pm. Zoom link will be emailed to you, see you soon!

  • ADAPT Monthly Meetup
    First ADAPT monthly regular meetups for 2021 is scheduled on Wednesday Janunary 27 at 4:30 pm. Happy New Year to all! See you then.

  • ADAPT Monthly Meetup
    November ADAPT monthly regular meetups is scheduled on Monday November 30, 2020 at 4:30 pm. Join us in the Zoom !

  • ADAPT Monthly Meetup
    ADAPT monthly regular meetups for October! The meeting is scheduled on Monday October 26, 2020 at 4:30 pm. See you then in Zoom!

  • ADAPT Monthly Meetup
    ADAPT Center resumes our regular meetups! Next meeting is scheduled on Monday September 28, 2020 at 4:30 pm in Zoom. Please join us!

  • ADAPT Seminar
    Thursday, October 17, 2019 4:25pm, Rm529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Steven Greybush ( Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, Institute for Cyberscience, and ADAPT Center, Penn State )

  • ADAPT Seminar
    Thursday, May 30 , 2019 2:00pm Rm 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Sharanya J Majumdar ( Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Miami )

  • ADAPT Seminar
    Tuesday, May 7, 2019 3:00pm Rm 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Chaopeng Shen ( Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, PSU)

  • ADAPT Seminar
    Monday, April 29 , 2019 4:00pm Rm 319 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Christelle Wauthier ( Department of Geosciences, PSU)

  • ADAPT Seminar
    Monday, April 22 , 2019 4:00pm Rm 103 Walker Building
    Speaker: Lorenzo Minola (Gothenburg University, Sweden)

  • ADAPT Mini-Symposium
    ADAPT Mini-Symposium in honor of Syukuro Manabe for his great contribution on climate science.
    When: April 10, 2019, 1:00-5:30pm
    Where: Rm529 Walker Building
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  • ADAPT Seminar
    Monday, March 29 , 2019 3:30pm Rm 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Atsushi Okazaki

  • ADAPT Co-Sponsoresd Seminar
    Monday, March 25 , 2019 3:00pm R129 ABC HUB-Robeson Center
    Dr. Takemasa Miyoshi

  • ADAPT Seminar
    Tuesday, March 19 , 2019 01:00pm Rm 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Alexander Ryzhkov

  • ADAPT seminar
    Friday, January 18, 2019 03:30pm Rm 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Zhiyong Meng

  • ADAPT seminar
    Monday, January 14, 2019 02:00pm Rm319 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Weizhong Zheng

    • Second ADAPT Symposium on Advanced Understanding, Monitoring and Prediction of Weather, Climate and Environmental systems
    December 16-18, 2018, Rm112 Walker Building, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania

  • ADAPT seminar
    Tuesday, December 4, 2018 03:30pm 319 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Dehai Luo

  • ADAPT seminar
    Tuesday,November 27, 2018 03:45pm 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Guido Cervone
  • ADAPT seminar
    Monday October 29, 2018 03:30pm 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Yinghui Lu
  • ADAPT seminar
    Tuesday October 9, 2018 04:00pm 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Helen Greatrex
  • ADAPT seminar
    Mon June 11, 2018 03:00pm 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr.Erin Munsell
  • ADAPT Seminar
    Tue May 22, 2018 03:00pm 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Morgan O'Neill
  • The 8th EnKF Data Assimilation Workshop
    May 7-10, 2018 Hotel Mont Gabriel, Québec, Canada
  • ADAPT seminar
    Fri Apr 27, 2018 03:30pm 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Benjamin Johnson
  • ADAPT seminar
    Mon Apr 02, 2018 02:30pm 110 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Fuqing Zhang

  • ADAPT seminar
    Fri Mar 30, 2018 02:30pm 110 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Fuqing Zhang
  • ADAPT seminar
    Fri April 27, 2018 03:30pm Rm529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Benjamin Johnson
  • ADAPT seminar
    Tue Mar 20, 2018 04:00pm 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Takemasa Miyoshi
  • ADAPT seminar
    Fri Dec 1, 2017 03:30pm 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Mr. Devesh Kumar
  • Department Colloquium/ADAPT seminar
    Wed Sep 27, 2017 03:30pm 112 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Sanjay Srini vasan
  • ADAPT seminar
    Tue Sep 19, 2017 04:00pm 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Erin Munsell
  • ADAPT seminar
    Tue Sep 12, 2017 03:30pm 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Kun Zhao (Nanjing University, China)
  • ADAPT seminar
    Thu Sep 7, 2017 01:30pm 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Eugene Morgan (Penn State)
  • ADAPT seminar
    Fri Aug 25, 2017 03:30pm 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Masashi Minamide (Penn State)
  • ADAPT seminar
    Wed Mar 29, 2017 12:00pm 607 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Michael Bell (Colorado State)
  • ADAPT seminar
    Tue Mar 21, 2017 03:30pm 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Steven Schiff (Penn State)
  • ADAPT seminar
    Fri Mar 03, 2017 02:30pm 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Fuqing Zhang (Penn State)
  • ADAPT seminar
    Mon Jan 30, 2017 03:00pm 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Li Li (Penn State)
  • ADAPT seminar
    Tue Dec 06, 2016 03:30pm 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Kun Zhao (Nanjing University)
  • ADAPT seminar
    Thu Oct 20, 2016 10:30am 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Pete Finocchio (U of Miami)
  • ADAPT seminar
    Mon Oct 03, 2016 01:30pm 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Junhong (June) Wang (U Albany)
  • ADAPT seminar
    Mon Oct 03, 2016 10:30am 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Aiguo Dai (U Albany)
  • ADAPT seminar
    Thu September 29, 2016 10:30am 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Dennis Lin (Department of Statistics, PSU))
  • ADAPT seminar
    Thu September 1, 2016 11:00am 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Le Bao (Department of Statistics, PSU)
  • ADAPT seminar
    Thu September 8, 2016 10:30am 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr James D. Doyle (NRL)
  • ADAPT seminar (cancelled)
    Wed September 14, 2016 09:30am 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Ming Cai (Florida State University)
  • ADAPT seminar
    Tue August 9, 2016 02:00pm 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Tomohiro Oda (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
  • ADAPT seminar
    Wed July 20, 2016 10:00am 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Victor Homar (University of the Balearic Islands, Spain)
  • ADAPT seminar
    Fri June 3, 2016 2:00pm 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Poterjoy (NCAR)

  • ADAPT seminar
    Thur June 2, 2016 9:00am 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Poterjoy (NCAR)
  • Symposium on Advanced Assimilation and Uncertainty Quantification in BigData Research for Weather, Climate and Earth System Monitoring and Prediction
    23-24 May 2016 Toftrees Golf Resort & Conference Center, State College, PA, 16803, USA

  • The 7th EnKF Data Assimilation Workshop
    24-27 May 2016 Toftrees Golf Resort & Conference Center, State College, PA, 16803, USA

  • 2016 SPARC Gravity Wave Symposium
    16-20 May 2016 The Atherton Hotel and Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, 16801, USA

  • ADAPT seminar
    Thur Mar 24, 2016 3:30pm 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Tiffany Shaw (University of Chicago)

  • ADAPT seminar
    Tue Mar 15, 2016 3:30pm 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Douglas Allen (NRL)

  • ADAPT seminar
    Fri Feb 19, 2016 3:30pm 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Adrian Sandu (Professor of Virginia Tech)

  • ADAPT seminar
    Thur Feb 18, 2016 9:30am 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Patrick Harr (Section Head for Atmosphere, Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, NSF)

  • ADAPT seminar
    Fri Feb 05, 2016 3:30pm 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. David Stensrud (Professor of Meteorology, PSU)

  • ADAPT seminar
    Thu Jan 21, 2016 3:15pm 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Dr. Olivier Pauluis (Professor of Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU)

  • ADAPT seminar
    Thur Dec 10, 2015 2:00pm 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Klaus Keller (Professor of Geosciences)
  • Computational and Applied Mathematics Colloquium
    Mon Oct 05, 2015 2:30pm Room 106 McAllister Building
    Speaker: Xin Tong (Courant Institute of New York University)
    Title: Stability of Ensemble Kalman Filters
  • CCMA Luncheon Seminar
    Mon Oct 05, 2015 12:20pm Room 114 McAllister Building
    Speaker: Xin Tong (Courant Institute of New York University)
    Title: Filtering and Stability
  • ADAPT seminar
    Fri Oct 02, 2015 3:30pm 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Thomas Lauvaux (Sr. Research Associate of Meteorology)
  • ADAPT seminar
    Fri Sep 04, 2015 3:30pm 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: James Z. Wang (Professor of Information Sciences and Technology)
  • ADAPT seminar
    Mon May 11, 2015 3:30pm 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Alfonso Mejia (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering)
  • ADAPT seminar
    Thur Apr 23, 2015 3:30pm 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Kenneth J. Davis (Department of Meteorology)
  • ADAPT seminar
    Fri Apr 03, 2015 3:45pm 529 Walker Building
    Speaker: Yuning Shi (Earth and Environmental Systems Institute)
  • ADAPT Grand Opening Ceremony and Reception
  • Science Steering Committee Meeting



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           News

  • As announced in Penn State News, ADAPT Associate Director Steven Greybush, along with David John Gagne of NCAR, will be part of a new NSF grant using artificial intelligence (AI), Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models, and Data Assimilation to better predict convection initiation (thunderstorms). Article appeared on September 16, 2024.

  • As announced in Penn State News, ADAPT Researchers Dave Stensrud, Xingchao Chen, Steven Greybush, and Yunji Zhang will be part of a new multi-university team, the Consortium for Advanced Data Assimilation Research and Education, or CADRE, led by University of Oklahoma, which was selected by NOAA to receive $6.6 million in recommended funding. Research findings will be used to improve numerical prediction systems, advance data assimilation research and workforce development, as shown in this AGU TV video. Article appeared on May 23, 2024.

  • ADAPT researchers, including doctoral student Keenan Eure, featured in Penn State News for demonstrating that underused satellite and radar data may improve forecasts of thunderstorms. Article appeared on Mar. 9, 2023.

  • ADAPT affiliate Anthony Didlake and assistant director Yunji Zhang and student researchers are featured in Penn State News for their participation in a field campaign studying extreme rainfall. ADAPT provided near realtime simulation and assimilation support for the campaign. Article appeared on Jul. 27, 2022.

  • ADAPT researchers featured in Penn State News for demonstrating that data assimilation improves forecasts of hurricane intensity and rainfall, in a study led by Assistant Director Yunji Zhang. Article appeared on Feb. 1, 2022.

  • ADAPT Associate Directors Steven Greybush and Alfonso Mejia awarded a Institutes of Energy and the Environment seed grant, as featured in Penn State News. The project spans rainfall to river systems, and includes machine learning, ensembles, and uncertainty quantification. Assistant Director Xingchao Chen and several ADAPT affiliates were also funded to facilitate environmental investigations employing a single column model. Article appeared on Apr. 26, 2022.

  • ADAPT researchers contribute to pandemic prediction effort as featured in Penn State News. Article appeared on Jun. 29, 2021.

  • Now a new approach developed at Penn State’s Center for Advanced Data Assimilation and Predictability Techniques (ADAPT Center) can forecast the intensity and trajectory of Hurricane Harvey, according to researchers at Penn State and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. PENN STATE NEWS, August 15, 2019.
    Related publication in the news....

  • College of Earth and Mineral Sciences mourns death of Fuqing Zhang who was the director of ADAPT Center. Fuqing Zhang, distinguished professor of meteorology in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Penn State, died Friday, July 19 2019, not long after being diagnosed with cancer.
    More related information, please check Center Daily Times , SPARC, and AccuWeather.

  • Dr. Fuqing Zhang was awarded the 2019 Joanne Simpson Medal for Mid-Career Scientists by AGU Union, which is the world’s largest organization of Earth and space scientists. More information about the 2019 AGU Union Medal, Award, and Prize on AGU NEWS is available here...
  • ADAPT Center's Research and Center director Dr. Fuqing Zhang is on ( Tuesday, April 16, 2019 ) Penn State News .

    Article Title: Predictability limit: Scientists find bounds of weather forecasting.


  • Penn State to celebrate naming of building after science pioneer. Warren Washington made history at Penn State by becoming the second African-American to earn a doctoral degree in meteorology nationwide. He's making history again, becoming the first Penn State innovator or pioneer to have a building named after him: The Warren M. Washington Building at Innovation Park. PENN STATE NEWS, Friday, May 17, 2019. Warren M. Washington Building dedication ceremony was held on May 17, 2019. Photos from PENN STATE NEWS (Tuesday, May 21, 2019).

  • Center Graduate student Man-Yau (Joseph) Chan from Fuqing's group has been selected to receive the 2019 Hans Neuberger Award for excellent teaching of meteorology.

    • This award is given to the top Teaching Assistant(s) for excellent teaching of meteorology at the elementary level. The fund was established in 1972 by the Penn State Meteorology faculty in honor of Professor Hans Neuberger, who guided the growth of the department over a period of 33 years from its embryonic beginnings to a position of world eminence. Professor Neuberger established excellence in teaching as a key element of that growth, and demonstrated that skill by his own example.

  • Center Graduate student Robert Nystrom from Fuqing's group has been selected to receive the Al and Betty Blackadar Graduate Scholarship in Meteorology for 2018-2019.

    • This scholarship is to recognize and provide financial assistance to Meteorology and Atmospheric Science graduate students who have achieved superior academic records or who manifest promise of outstanding academic success.

  • Richard B. Alley1, Kerry A. Emanuel2, Fuqing Zhang's paper published at Science is featured in Earth Sciences Geoscientists insist weather forecasting is more accurate than ever and could get even better January 25, 2019 by Bob Yirka, Phys.org

  • Dr. Fuqing Zhang's JAS article on limits of weather predictability is featured in Science Magazine news release. Feb. 14, 2019 , 9:30 AM How far out can we forecast the weather? Scientists have a new answer.

  • ADAPT center director Prof. Fuqing Zhang received Award of 2019 distinguished professors at Penn State. More information...

  • Second ADAPT Symposium on Advanced Understanding, Monitoring and Prediction of Weather, Climate and Environmental systems was held on December 16-18, 2018, at Rm112 Walker Building, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania. More information...

  • Director Prof. Zhang was selected as a Fellow of American Geophysical Union “for fundamental understanding of multiscale predictability and dynamics and for breakthroughs in hurricane prediction through ensemble data assimilation". More information...

  • Dr.Fuqing Zhang etal's paper Improving Harvey forecasts with next-generation weather satellites published at Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society is featured in Nature News : Latest US weather satellite highlights forecasting challenges - Researchers begin to tackle the technical obstacles to incorporate observations from space into weather models. Nature News 02 MARCH 2018 by Jeff Tollefson

  • ADAPT associate director Steven Greybush and doctoral student Hartzel Gillespie are featured in Penn State News for their work studying the 2018 Martian Global Dust Storm. This storm led to the demise of the solar-powered opportunity rover. Their study was published in a special collection of JGR Planets. Article appeared on Jun. 25, 2018.

  • ADAPT associate director John Harlim's new book on data science and parameter estimation is featured in Penn State News. Article appeared on Sep. 21, 2018.

  • New weather model could increase tornado-warning times

  • Director Prof. Zhang was elected as 2018 Fellow of American Geophysical Union

  • Director Prof. Zhang received Penn State University 2018 Faculty Scholar Medal in Physical Sciences

  • ADAPT center director Prof. Fuqing Zhang received 2018 Faculty Scholar Medals for Outstanding Achievement. More information

    • Established in 1980, the award recognizes scholarly or creative excellence represented by a single contribution or a series of contributions around a coherent theme. A committee of peers reviews nominations and selects candidates.

  • ADAPT center director Prof. Fuqing Zhang was elected Distinguished Chair for Gothenburg Chair Programme for Advanced Studies (GoCAS) held in Gothenburg, Sweden, From August 23 to October 5, 2018. More information

  • The 8th EnKF Data Assimilation Workshop co-chaired by center director Prof. Fuqing Zhang was held in Montreal, Canada. More information...

  • Graduate student Yue (Michael) Ying from Fuqing's group receives Al and Betty Blackadar Graduate Scholarship in Meteorology 2018

    • This scholarship is to recognize and provide financial assistance to Meteorology and Atmospheric Science graduate students who have achieved superior academic records or who manifest promise of outstanding academic success.

  • Graduate Student Wenjie Li from Fuqing's group receives Hans Neuberger Award 2018

    • This award is given to the top Teaching Assistant for exellent teaching of meteorology at the elementay level. Six other graduate students (Christopher Melhauser, Benjamin Green, Hans Chen, Junhong Wei, Erin Munsell, Robert Nystrom) in Fuqing's group have received this award.

  • Director Prof. Fuqing Zhang receives the Penn State Faculty Scholar Medal in Physical Sciences for his pioneering work in data assimilation that has led to improvements in hurricane intensity forecasts.

  • Director Prof. Fuqing Zhang was interviewd by Nature on the need for more investment on satellite data assimilation

  • Center affiliate Prof. Yvette Richardson is elected as Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, class 2018

  • Center affiliate Prof. Jose Fuentes receives the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Biometeorology

  • Center affiliate Prof. Richard Alley was made an honorary member of American Meteorological Society (AMS) in January 2018

  • Graduate Hans Chen won the Outstanding Student Paper Award at the 20th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, American Meteorological Society (AMS) in January 2018 for his poster presentation: "Progress toward Estimating Surface Carbon Dioxide Fluxes at the Regional Scale Using an Augmented Ensemble Kalman Filter"

  • Graduate student Yue (Michael) Ying won the Best Student Presentation at the 22nd AMS IOAS-AOLS Conference in January 2018 for his oral presentation: "On the Selection of Localization Radius in Ensemble Filtering for Multiscale Quasigeostrophic Dynamics"

  • Director Prof. Fuqing Zhang briefed Congress on how recent advances in technology have imprved severe weather forecasting. Read more

  • A special session on Multi-scale Atmospheric Predictability was held in 97th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting. The program and recorded talks are available through the link.

  • Graduate Student Yongqaing Sun from Fuqing's group receives John C. Wyngaard Graduate Research Award 2017

    • This award is to honor and recognize the outstanding research by a graduate student majoring in Meteorology.

  • Graduate Student Robert Nystrom from Fuqing's group receives Hans Neuberger Award 2017

    • This award is given to the top Teaching Assistant for exellent teaching of meteorology at the elementay level. Five other graduate students (Christopher Melhauser, Benjamin Green, Hans Chen, Junhong Wei, Erin Munsell) in Fuqing's group have received this award.

  • Graduate Student Erin Munsell from Fuqing's group receives Hans Neuberger Award

    • This award is given to the top Teaching Assistant for exellent teaching of meteorology at the elementay level. Four other graduate students (Christopher Melhauser, Benjamin Green, Hans Chen, Junhong Wei) in Fuqing's group have received this award.

  • Graduate Student Erin Munsell from Dr. Fuqing Zhang's group is on Penn State News for her excellent research on Hurricanes.

  • Director Prof.Zhang was selected as a Fellow of American Geophysical Union “for fundamental understanding of multiscale predictability and dynamics and for breakthroughs in hurricane prediction through ensemble data assimilation.”

  • New weather model could increase tornado-warning times

  • The 7th EnKF Data Assimilation Workshop was held in Toftrees Golf Resort & Conference Center, State College, during May 24-27, 2016. More information...


  • The research on GOES-R satellite data assimilation by Fuqing Zhang, Masashi Minamide and Eugene Clothiaux is on Penn State News.

  • November 2015: members from Fuqing's group (Christopher Melhauser, Erin Munsell, Dandan Tao, Scott Sieron, Yonghui Weng and Fuqing Zhang) receive the NASA Group Achievement Award for their great job in the Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) project.

  • Visiting Graduate Student Yunji Zhang from Fuqing's group won the Student Presentation Competition: 1st Place Poster at 16th Conference on Mesoscale Processes.

  • Graduate Student Junhong Wei from Fuqing's group receives Hans Neuberger Award

    • This award is given to the top Teaching Assistant for exellent teaching of meteorology at the elementay level. Three other graduate students (Christopher Melhauser, Benjamin Green, Hans Chen) in Fuqing's group have received this award.

  • Graduate Student Benjamin Green from Fuqing's group receives John C. Wyngaard Graduate Research Award for 2015

    • This award is to honor and recognize the outstanding research by a graduate student majoring in Meteorology.

  • Center director Fuqing Zhang is elected as Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, class 2015

    • Dr. Zhang is being recognized "for his exceptional scientific contributions in the atmospheric sciences, specifically in the areas of atmospheric dynamics and predictability, data assimilation, and ensemble forecasting of tropical cyclones".

  • Center affiliate Paul Markowski receives the 2015 Meisinger Award from the American Meteorological Society

    • This Award is given to an individual in recognition of research achievement that is, at least in part, aerological in character and concerns the observation, theory, and modeling of atmospheric motions on all scales.

  • Center director Fuqing Zhang and assistant director Yonghui Weng received the 2014 Banner Miller Award from the American Meteorological Society

    • The Banner I. Miller Award is presented to Drs. Fuqing Zhang, Yonghui Weng, John Gamache and Frank Marks “For valuable insights into incorporating real-time airborne Doppler radar measurements via ensemble data assimilation, leading to improvements in forecasts of tropical cyclone track and intensity”.

  • 2014 NSF/TACC press release: Today's forecast: better forecasts

  • 2014 Science Daily: Hurricane prediction: Real time forecast of Hurricane Sandy had track and intensity accuracy

  • Director Prof.Zhang was selected as a Fellow of American Geophysical Union “for fundamental understanding of multiscale predictability and dynamics and for breakthroughs in hurricane prediction through ensemble data assimilation.”

  • 2014 RedOrbit: New Hurricane Model Can More Accurately Predict Storm Path, Intensity