NANCY L. BAKER is a research meteorologist with the Naval Research Laboratory’s Marine Meteorology Division. She has more than 35 years of experience with various aspects of atmospheric data assimilation (DA) including observation quality control, satellite data assimilation and observation impact studies. She has extensive experience with DA methods such as 3D-Var, 4D-Var and hybrid ensemble/variational 4D-Var, and satellite radiance assimilation, and has had a leading role in the development and transition of these systems to the U.S. Navy for operational implementation. She earned her Ph.D. in Meteorology from the Naval Postgraduate School in 2000. Her dissertation research on observation adjoint sensitivity contributed to the ground-breaking development of the Forecast Sensitivity Observation Impact (FSOI) with Dr. Rolf Langland (Langland and Baker, 2004). She is a currently serves as the associate director to the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation for the Navy, and is a member of the National Academies’ Committee on Radio Frequencies (CORF). Past service to the National Academies includes serving as co-chair for the Panel on Weather and Air Quality: Minutes to Subseasonal panel for the 2018 Decadal Survey for Earth Science and Applications from Space.
