DART: A Community Facility Providing State-of-the-Art, Efficient Ensemble Data Assimilation for Large (Coupled) Geophysical Models

Timothy J Hoar1, Jeffrey L Anderson1, Nancy Collins1, Helen Kershaw2, Jonathan Hendricks1, Kevin Raeder1, Arthur P Mizzi1, Jerome Barré3, Benjamin Gaubert4, Luke Edward Madaus5, Ali Aydogdu6, Joachim Raeder7, Hernan Arango8, Andrew M Moore9, Christopher A Edwards10, Enrique N Curchitser11, Romain Escudier8,11, Raphael Dussin12, Cecilia M Bitz13, Yong-Fei Zhang14, Prabhakar Shrestha15, Rafael Rosolem16 and Mostaquimur Rahman16, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, (3)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, Boulder, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory (ACOM), Boulder,CO, United States, (5)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, (6)Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Italy, (7)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (8)Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (9)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (10)University of California Santa Cruz, Ocean Sciences, Santa Cruz, United States, (11)Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department of Environmental Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (12)Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department of Environmental Sciences, New Brunswick, United States, (13)University of Washington, Atmospheric and Climate Science, Seattle, United States, (14)Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (15)Meteorological Institute, Bonn University, Bonn, Germany, (16)University of Bristol, Civil Engineering, Bristol, United Kingdom