Workshop II: Numerical Hierarchies for Climate Modeling - IPAM

Workshop II: Numerical Hierarchies for Climate Modeling

Part of the Long Program Model and Data Hierarchies for Simulating and Understanding Climate
April 12 - 16, 2010

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, April 12, 2010

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:50
Akio Arakawa (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
TOWARD UNIFICATION OF GENERAL CIRCULATION AND CLOUD-RESOLVING MODELS
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Dale Durran (University of Washington)
Physically Motivated Soundproof Equations for Compressible Stratified Flow
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Almut Gassmann (Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie)
Hamiltonian tools applied to nonhydrostatic modeling

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Nigel Wood (Meteorological Office)
A hierarchy of models, from planetary to mesoscale, within a single switchable numerical framework
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
David Williamson (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
EVALUATION OF DYNAMICAL CORES INTENDED FOR GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC CLIMATE MODELS
17:00-18:30
Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
Jason Frank (CWI (Center for Mathematics and Computer Science))
Thermostat closures for inviscid fluid models
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Boualem Khouider (University of Victoria)
Bad numerics or bad models?
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Peter Spichtinger (ETH Zürich)
Modelling of cirrus clouds - status, problems and new concepts

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
John Thuburn (University of Exeter)
Enstrophy and energy cascades in numerical models
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Sebastian Reich (Universität Potsdam)
A (fairy?) tale of three strands in numerical analysis and their relevance to GFD

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
Luca Bonaventura (Politecnico di Milano)
PERSPECTIVES FOR EXPONENTIAL INTEGRATORS IN APPLICATIONS TO GEOPHYSICAL SCALE DYNAMICS
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Rupert Klein (Freie Universität Berlin)
Sound-proof for small scales, compressible for large scales via scale-dependent time integration
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Matthew Piggott (Imperial College)
Modelling ocean dynamics with anisotropic adaptive mesh methods

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Todd Ringler (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Exploring a Multi-Resolution Approach within the Shallow-Water System
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
William Skamarock (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
Variable-Resolution Solvers for Multi-Scale Atmospheric Simulation

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
Francis Giraldo (Naval Postgraduate School)
Title not available
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Mark Taylor (Sandia National Laboratories)
CAM-HOMME: A locally conservative, mimetic finite element methods for the moist atmospheric primitive equations in NCAR's Community Atmospheric Model
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Alistair Adcroft (Princeton University)
The piecewise quartic method (PQM), steps towards accurate general coordinate ocean models, and the spurious diffusion problem.

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:50
Vincent Legat (Université Catholique de Louvain)
Multiscale marine numerical and mathematical modeling with high- order discontinuous finite elements : how to gain several orders of magnitude in speedup
15:00-15:15
Break
15:15-16:05
Peter Lauritzen (National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR))
A geometrically flexible conservative semi-Lagrangian scheme for multi-tracer transport
16:15-16:30
Break
16:30-17:20
Patrick Haertel (Yale University)
Lagrangian Modeling of Oceans and Atmospheres

Friday, April 16, 2010

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
Piotr Smolarkiewicz (National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR))
MODELING ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATIONS WITH HIGH-RESOLUTION METHODS
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Jörn Behrens (Universität Hamburg)
Efficient adaptive methods for multi-scale geophysical applications
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Christiane Jablonowski (University of Michigan)
An analysis of Finite-Volume schemes: High-order Methods and Grid Reflections on Adaptive Grids

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Robert Walko (University of Miami)
Representing Diverse Scales in OLAM - Advantages and Challenges of Locally-Refined Unstructured Grids
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Amik St-Cyr (National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR))
(MUSE) A Multiscale Unified Simulation Environment
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