Peter Jan van Leeuwen

Associate professor physical oceanography

Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht ( IMAU )
Utrecht University
P.O.Box 80005
3508 TA Utrecht
Netherlands
e-mail: p.j.vanleeuwen@phys.uu.nl


Visitor address:
Princetonplein 5
3584 CC Utrecht

Associate editor Monthly Weather Review (see here )

Note new address since Febuary 1st, 2009, given below !!!

• Professor in Data assimilation
• Email: p.j.vanleeuwen@reading.ac.uk
• Telephone:
  +44 (0) 118 378 5578
• Address:
  Dept. of Meteorology
  Univ. of Reading
  Earley Gate
  P.O. Box 243
  Reading RG6 6BB
  United Kingdom
http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~xv901096

Research areas

• Agulhas system
• Geophysical fluid dynamics
• Advanced data assimilation in non-linear models (particle methods, Sequential Importance Resampling SIR)
• Data analysis
• Perturbation methods
• Low-frequency (period a few minutes) wave generation by breaking wind waves

Sea-surface height evolution in the Agulhas area obtained from assimilating

altimeter sea-surface height in a 5-layer QG ocean model using

Sequential Importance Resampling (SIR)

Publications

Syllabi

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