Workshop I: Equation Hierarchies for Climate Modeling

Part of the Long Program Model and Data Hierarchies for Simulating and Understanding Climate
March 22 - 26, 2010

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, March 22, 2010

Morning Session
8:00 - 8:45 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:45 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 - 9:50
Rupert Klein (Freie Universität Berlin)

 
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10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Stamen Dolaptchiev (Institut für Atmosphäre und Umwelt)

Reduced asymptotic models for planetary and synoptic motions in the atmosphere

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Andrew Majda (New York University)

 
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12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
Sam Stechmann (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

Gravity waves in shear and implications for organized convection
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3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
Keith Julien (University of Colorado, Boulder)

The Nonhydrostatic Balanced-Geostrophic Equations

5:00 - 6:30 Reception and Poster Session (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
J. David Neelin (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

Transport, tails & transition to deep convection

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Simona Bordoni (California Institute of Technology)

Monsoons in idealized general circulation models

12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
Boualem Khouider (University of Victoria)

Convectively coupled waves in a sheared environment.
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3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
Joseph Biello (University of California, Davis (UC Davis))

 


Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
Bjorn Stevens (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology)

 

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
James McWilliams (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

Fronts and Filaments as an Efficient Route Across Model Hierarchies

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
Dargan Frierson (University of Washington)

Energy Tranports in Warmer Climates

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
Cecilia Bitz (University of Washington)

 


Thursday, March 25, 2010

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
Andy Ingersoll (California Institute of Technology)

Dynamics of giant planet atmospheres

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Jonathan Mitchell (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

Idealized models for planetary climate & circulation: From Earth to Titan

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Ray Pierrehumbert (University of Chicago)

Explaining Snowball Earth, and Explaining the Explanations

12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
Jonathan Aurnou (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

Zonal Flows in Deep Convection Systems

3:30 - 3:45 Break
3:45 - 4:45

Friday, March 26, 2010

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Steve Cavallo (National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR))

Understanding the intensification of tropopause polar vortices over the Arctic

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
12:30 - 2:00 PIZZA LUNCH HOSTED BY IPAM

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 3:00