Novel Approaches To
Climate
June
13 -- July 3, 2005
Thanks to BP
and ICAM for providing
supplementary support for the workshop.
Week of June 13:
- Tuesday June 14 @ 10am in Flug Forum:
Paul Kushner, Overview of the
General
Circulation [pdf
2.4MB]
- Wednesday June 15: Turbulent
Mixing
- 10 am to noon in Flug
- Sasha Balk, The extra
invariant for the Rossby waves: The energy accumulation in the zonal
flow [pdf 5.4MB]
- Bob Ecke, Laboratory
experiments on oceanic overflows [pdf 876KB]
- Ray Shaw, Clouds:
Characteristics, cartoons, and climate [pdf 308KB]
- Peter Weichman, Statistical
mechanics of fluid flows and large scale oceanic circulation [pdf 2.1MB]
- Thursday June 16 @ 10am in Flug: John Harte, Predicting Climate Change on a Green
Planet: Climate-Ecosystem Feedbacks [pdf 1.7MB]
Week of June 20:
- Tuesday June 21: Statistical Approaches
to Climate Modeling (part I)
- 10 am to noon in Flug Forum
- Axel Kleidon, Maximum
entropy production principle in
climate modeling (20 min) [pdf
2.4MB]
- Brad Marston, Hopf-flow
approach to nonlinear dynamics,
including atmospheres (20 min)
[pdf
3.5MB]
- Sharon Sessions, Kinetic
theory approach to convection (20
min)
- Ana Lopez, Quantifying
global climate model
prediction uncertainties (20 min) [pdf 456KB]
- Wednesday June 22: Ecosystem Responses
and Feedbacks
- 10 am to noon in Flug
- Alan McKane, Stochastic
models in ecology (30 min)
- John Pastor, Carbon
and Nutrient Balances in Northern Peatlands (30 min)
- Caroline Roelandt, The
ALBIOc Model (30 min)
- Thursday June 23: Clouds
- 10 am to noon in Flug
- 10:00 am: Grisha Falkovich, Theoretical problems of cloud physics [pdf 548 KB]
- 10:25 am: Alex Kostinski, Continuous vs. discrete approach in cloud
microphysics [pdf
308KB]
- 10:50 am: Ray Pierrehumbert, Cloud and convection problems related to
recovery from neo-proterozoic global glaciation [pdf 1.5MB]
Week of June 27:
- Tuesday June 28: Statistical Approaches
to Climate Modeling (part II)
- 10 am to noon in Flug
- Sasha Balk, Formation
of zonal jets by Rossby waves (10 min) [pdf 5.4MB]
- Peter Weichman, Ocean
dynamics and fractal geometry of
chlorophyll concentration (10 min) [pdf 320KB]
- Paul Kushner, Discussion
of cloud impact on climate (15 min) [pdf 1.2MB]
- Ted Shepherd, Statistical
Uncertainty, Attribution, and Prediction of Stratospheric Climate
Change (30 min) [pdf 2.4MB]
- Thursday June 30 @ 10am: Wrap-Up
Session (New
location: Gell-Mann alcove
in Smart Hall)
Interesting
questions.
- Thursday
June 30 @ 3pm: Center Colloquium "How Rain Starts"
by Grisha
Falkovich (Flug Forum)
References and Links:
Suggestions?
Contact Brad Marston.
Thanks to Paul
Goldbart
for help with this page.
Last update: October 3, 2005.