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Lecture
Notes of AMS-SIAM
Special Session on Environmental Mathematics (SS29A) at the 2008 AMS Annual Meeting,
Gerald R. North Status
of Climate Change Research Stochastic Treatments of CloudRadiation Interactions in Climate Models Michael Ghil Robust
Climate Projections and Stochastic Structural Stability of Dynamical
System Stochastic
Climate Models Analysis
of Biases in a Tropical Channel Climate Simulation and Implications
to Climate Prediction New
Algorithms and Applications of theFluctuation-Dissipation Theorem
for Climate Response Hysteresis
in a Rotating Differentially Heated Spherical Shell of Boussinesq
Fluid Macroturbulence
and the General Circulation of the Atmosphere
Bayesian
Climate Change Assessments Reconstruction
of Meteorological Fields Using Spatial Functions with Examples For
more information, please contact Samuel Shen, Professor and Chair,
Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
Announcement and Schedule of the Special
Session SS
29A- AMS-SIAM Special Session on Environmental Mathematics: Some
Mathematical Problems on Climate Change and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Sunday
January 6, 2008: SS 29A-I: 8:00-10:50AM, SS 29A-II: 2:15-6:05PM Wednesday
January 9, 2008: SS 29A-III: 8:00-10:50AM The recent and rapid change of climate has attracted many mathematicians and statisticians to study mathematical problems arising in climate research and in other environmental studies. Environmental mathematics has emerged as an active branch of non-traditional mathematics that harnesses skills of applied mathematics, pure mathematics, statistics, and computing science, together with one or several application fields such as meteorology. The environmental mathematics problems even motivates studies of pure mathematics, such as the optimal placement of N weather station points on a 2-sphere. This session will focus on description of mathematical problems in the research on climate change and geophysical fluid dynamics. The lectures will be given by both mathematically oriented climate scientists and climate-oriented mathematicians and statisticians. These top climate researchers will cover a variety of topics on climate change, ranging from a status review of climate change research to specific topics on greenhouse effect, brown clouds, cloud-radiation interactions, climate change assessment and signal detection, and mathematical/statistical methods for climate modeling and climate data analysis. This special session will draw mathematicians’ attention to new problems in climate change studies and generate opportunities for research collaboration between mathematicians and climate scientists. The intended audiences are those who are interested in climate change problems and/or those mathematicians who are looking for joint research projects with climate scientists. The schedule of the lectures is below. For more information, please contact the session organizers:
Gerald
North, Distinguished Professor and Harold J. Haynes Chair Professor,
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Samuel Shen, Professor and Chair, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182. Tel: 619-594-6191. Fax: 619-594-6746. Email: shen@math.sdsu.edu.
Schedule of SS 29A- AMS-SIAM Special Session on Environmental Mathematics SS 29A Session I: Sunday January 6, 2008: 8:00-10:50AM 1035-86-931
Gerald R. North
8:00-8:40AM Status of Climate Change Research 1035-58-1412 V.
Ramanathan
9:00-9:40AM 1035-86-601
K.K. Tung
10:00-10:40AM Some Simple Mathematics Used in Support of
Climate Change Studies SS 29A Session II: Sunday January 6, 2008: 2:15-6:05PM
1035-86-732 Richard
C.J. Somerville
2:15-2:35PM Stochastic Treatments of CloudRadiation Interactions
in Climate Models
1035-62-1998 Douglas
W. Nychka 2:45-3:05PM
1035-37-1713
Michael Ghil
3:15-3:35PM Robust Climate Projections and Stochastic Structural
Stability of Dynamical Systems 1035-86-1422 Gerard Roe 3:45-4:05PM Why is Climate Sensitivity So Unpredictable
1035-60-1583
Timothy M. DelSole
4:15-4:35PM Stochastic Climate Models 1035-76-1738 Joseph
Tribbia
4:45-5:05PM (cancelled) Stochastic PDEs in GFD and Climate Prediction 1035-86-1587
L. Ruby Leung
5:15-5:35PM Analysis
of Biases in a Tropical Channel Climate Simulation and Implications
to Climate Prediction 1035-82-1299
Rafail V. Abramov
5:45-6:05PM New
Algorithms and Applications of theFluctuation-Dissipation Theorem
for Climate Response
SS 29A Session III:
Wednesday January 9, 2008: 8:00-10:50AM 1035-76-45
William F. Langford
8:00-8:20AM Hysteresis
in a Rotating Differentially Heated Spherical Shell of Boussinesq
Fluid 1035-86-1394 R.
Lee Panetta
8:30-8:50AM On the Dissipativity of the Two-quasi-geostrophic
beta Plane Equations
1035-76-817 Tapio Schneider 9:00-9:20AM Macroturbulence
and the General Circulation of the Atmosphere
1035-62-735
Richard Levine
9:30-9:50AM Bayesian Climate Change Assessments 1035-86-569
Thomas M. Smith
10:00-10:20AM Reconstruction
of Meteorological Fields Using Spatial Functions with Examples 1035-86-431
Samuel S. Shen
10:30-10:50AM A
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