DAO O ce Note
O ce Note Series on
Global Mo deling and Data Assimilation
Richard B Ro o d Head
Data Assimilation O ce
Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt Maryland
New Data Typ es Working Do cument
Joanna Joiner
Rob ert Atlas
Steve Blo om
Genia Brin
Stephen Cohn
Arthur Hou
Dave Lamich
Dave Ledvina
Richard M enard
Lars Peter Riish jgarrd
Richard Ro o d
Arlindo da Silva
Meta Sienkiewicz
Jim Stobie
Runhua Yang
Data Assimilation O ce Goddard Laboratory for Atmospheres
Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt Maryland
This paper has not been published and should
be regarded as an Internal Report from DAO
Permission to quote from it should be
obtained from the DAO
Go ddard Space Flight Center
Greenb elt Maryland June
Abstract
This working do cument describ es activities related to the New Data Typ es Group of
the Go ddard Data Assimilation O ce DAO and how these activities are prioritized
Included in this do cument are science drivers for new data typ es brief descriptions
of assimilation metho dologies including advanced metho dologies b eing explored at the
DAO a list of new data typ es b eing considered for assimilation and validation at the
DAO and how these data typ es are roughly prioritized This do cument will b e up dated
p erio dically
On line versions of this do cument are available from
ftp dao gsfc nasa