Workshop III: Simulation Hierarchies for Climate Modeling
May 3 - 7, 2010
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Organizing Committee
Markos Katsoulakis
(University of Massachusetts Amherst, Mathematics and Statistic)
Alan Kerstein
(Sandia National Laboratories)
Boualem Khouider
(University of Victoria)
Olivier Pauluis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, EAPS)
Ole Peters
(Imperial College)
Pier Siebesma
(KNMI, Atmospheric Research Div.)
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Scientific Overview
Our Earth's climate system involves atmospheric processes across an enormous range
of scales, ranging from the planetary to the millimeter scale. This includes not only
atmospheric dynamical processes such as turbulence and convection but also the physical
processes that interact with the dynamics such as clouds and radiation.
As there is no single simulation system that can incorporate the full range of all
these processes, there has been a development of a variety of simulation models that attempt
to describe specific sets of processes over a subset of relevant scales. These simulation
techniques range from the microscale (Direct Numerical Simulation) via the mesoscale (Large
Eddy and Cloud Resolving Model Simulations) to the global scale (Global Circulation Model
simulations), and form a hierarchy as one attempts to include the statistical behavior of
smaller scale processes in larger-scale simulation models.
The main objective of this workshop is to increase our understanding of the climate
system across all these scales through developments of better consistent simulation model
hierarchies. This raises questions how we can develop mean-field representations of the
subgrid fine-scale, fast processes for the range of simulation models. Can these be
incorporated either deterministically or stochastically, can they be made scale-adaptive,
or to what extend can we employ a multi-model framework, in which high-resolution models
serve as a dynamical subgrid representation embedded in a coarser grained simulation
simulation. Moreover this workshop also aims exploring to what extend more simplified
models and theories can be useful in reproducing, interpreting and conceptualizing the
complex dynamics of the climate system. This will include models, theories and simulation
techniques that have emerged from statistical physics and mathematics such as cellular
automata, lattice models, percolation theory, self-organizing critical systems and
dynamical systems.
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Confirmed Speakers
Judith Berner
(National Center for Atmospheric Research)
Colm Connaughton
(University of Warwick)
Ronald Dickman
(Federal University of Minas Gerais)
Christian Franzke
(Britain Antarctic Survey)
Bernard Geurts
(Universiteit Twente)
Michelle Girvan
(University of Maryland)
Wojciech Grabowski
(National Center for Atmospheric Research)
Hans Graf
(University of Cambridge)
Christopher Jeffery
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Henrik Jensen
(Imperial College)
Harm Jonker
(Technische Universiteit te Delft)
Alan Kerstein
(Sandia National Laboratories)
Marat Khairoutdinov
(SUNY Stony Brook)
Boualem Khouider
(University of Victoria)
Bill Klein
(Boston University)
Andrew Majda
(Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences)
Juan Pedro Mellado
(RWTH Aachen)
Chin-Hoh Moeng
(National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR))
J. David Neelin
(University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Olivier Pauluis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Dave Randall
(Colorado State University)
Heiko Schmidt
(Freie Universität Berlin)
Axel Seifert
(Deutscher Wetterdienst)
Peter Sullivan
(National Center for Atmospheric Research)
Bruce Turkington
(University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Eric Vanden-Eijnden
(New York University)
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Application/Registration
An application/registration form is available at:
https://www.ipam.ucla.edu/elements/choose.aspx?pc=clws3
The application part is for people requesting financial support to attend
the workshop. If you don't intend to do this, you may simply register.
We urge you to apply as early as possible. Applications received by March 8, 2010 will receive fullest consideration.
Letters of reference may be sent to the address or email address below. Successful applicants will be notified as soon as funding decisions are made.
We have funding especially to support the attendance of recent PhD's, graduate
students, and researchers in the early stages of their career; however,
mathematicians and scientists at all levels who are interested in this area
are encouraged to apply for funding. Encouraging the careers of women and
minority mathematicians and scientists is an important component of IPAM's
mission and we welcome their applications.
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Contact Us:
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Attn: CLWS3
460 Portola Plaza
Los Angeles CA 90095-7121
Phone: 310 825-4755
Fax: 310 825-4756
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Website:
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