Workshop I: Equation Hierarchies for Climate Modeling - IPAM

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

08:00-08:45
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:45-09:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:00-09:50
Rupert Klein (Freie Universität Berlin)
Title not available
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)
Title not available

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Sam Stechmann (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Gravity waves in shear and implications for organized convection
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
(Keith Julien) (University of Colorado Boulder)
The Nonhydrostatic Balanced-Geostrophic Equations
17:00-18:30
Reception and Poster Session (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
J. Neelin (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Transport, tails & transition to deep convection
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Sukyoung Lee (Pennsylvania State University)
Dissipative Energization of Baroclinic Waves by Surface Ekman Pumping
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Simona Bordoni (California Institute of Technology)
Monsoons in idealized general circulation models

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Boualem Khouider (University of Victoria)
Convectively coupled waves in a sheared environment.
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Joseph Biello (University of California, Davis (UC Davis))
Title not available

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
Bjorn Stevens (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology)
Title not available
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
Joao Teixeira (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Subtropical Cloud Transitions and Climate: From Complex Models to Simple Theories

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Dargan Frierson (University of Washington)
Energy Tranports in Warmer Climates
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Cecilia Bitz (University of Washington)
Title not available

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
Andy Ingersoll (California Institute of Technology)
Dynamics of giant planet atmospheres
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Jonathan Mitchell (Institute for Advanced Study)
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

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Jonathan Aurnou (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Zonal Flows in Deep Convection Systems
15:30-15:45
Break
15:45-16:45
Edwin Gerber (New York University)
On the time scales of midlatitude atmospheric variability:Eddy-mean flow interactions and coupling from on high

Friday, March 26, 2010

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
Gregory Hakim (University of Washington)
Asymptotic and Probabilistic Approaches for Balance Dynamics
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
Tiffany Shaw (New York University)
Wave-activity conservation laws and their application to subgrid-scale parameterization in climate models

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
PIZZA LUNCH HOSTED BY IPAM
14:00-15:00
Sarah Kang (Columbia University)
Understanding the extratropical influence on the tropical precipitation using idealized slab-ocean experiments
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