THE NERC DATA ASSIMILATION RESEARCH CENTRE

The "Data Assimilation Research Centre" (DARC) has recently been funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) under its Centre of Excellence Initiative in Earth Observation. DARC is a distributed centre, including effort from Reading, Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities, the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and a strong partnership with the Met Office. DARC will aim to convert the wealth of Earth System data into a self-consistent form that researchers can use for quantitative analyses and prediction. This presentation will expand upon the why, how and what of DARC.