BIRS Workshop — Mathematical Approaches of Atmospheric Constituents Data Assimilation and Inverse Modeling

As the world population lives more and more in large urban areas, and as we are about to reach critical levels of greenhouse gases concentrations, the changing atmospheric composition has increasingly important economic, environmental and health impacts. It is thus becoming important to better quantify air pollution and its sources, using all the available information from observations to computer models, and use it in a synergistic way to maximize the information content – this is what data assimilation and inverse modeling aim for. This interdisciplinary workshop brings together engineers and researchers from numerical mathematics, statistics, and environmental sciences, to develop and innovate on the assimilation and inverse methods to address the specific issues related to atmospheric composition and chemistry. It will also be a forum to train new scientists in this emerging field, and to promote the research towards new operational monitoring products.