Frontiers of Climate Science (Conference)sponsored, in part, by BP.
Coordinators: Paul Kushner, Brad Marston, Chris StillScientific Advisors: Jean Carlson, Gregory Falkovich, John Harte, Ray PierrehumbertMay 6, 2008 - May 10, 2008 |
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008 |
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Ecosystems and Climate I
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| 8:50am | David Gross (KITP Director) |
Welcome |
| 9:00am | John Harte (UC Berkeley) |
Problems and Prospects at the Intersection of Ecology and Climate |
| 10:00am | David Noone (Univ. Colorado, ATOC) |
Exchanges at the Interface Between Terrestrial Ecosystems, the Water Cycle and Climate |
| 10:45am | MORNING BREAK | |
| 11:15am | Zhengyu Liu (Univ. Wisconsin) |
On The Abrupt Change of the Northern Africa Climate-Ecosystem in the Holocene: Modeling, Mechanism, and Implications |
| 12:00pm | LUNCH BREAK | |
The General Circulation and Macrotrubulence
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| 1:30pm | Tapio Schneider (Caltech) |
Macroturbulence in the General Circulation of the Atmosphere -- an Overview |
| 2:30pm | Adam Sobel (Columbia Univ.) |
Dynamics of Tropical Intraseasonal Variability [abstract] |
| 3:15pm | AFTERNOON BREAK | |
| 3:45pm | DISCUSSION | Resolving Moist Processes in Global Climate Models: Prospects and Implications |
| 4:30pm | SHUTTLE TO BWSCI | |
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 |
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Ecosystems and Climate II
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| 9:00am | Inez Fung (UC Berkeley) |
Biosphere Atmosphere Interactions |
| 10:00am | David Siegel (UCSB) |
Pelagic Ecosystems and Ocean Biogeochemistry |
| 10:45am | MORNING BREAK | |
| 11:15am | Tony Michaels (USC) |
Ocean Biology, Food Webs and Climate - The Critical Role of Surprise |
| 12:00pm | LUNCH BREAK | |
Clouds I
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| 1:30pm | Andy Majda (NYU) |
Multi-Scale Models for the Tropics: A Systematic Route for Improving Theory, Computational, and Predictive Strategies [abstract] |
| 2:30pm | Paul O'Gorman (Caltech) |
Effect of Climate Change on the Hydrological Cycle |
| 3:15pm | POSTER SESSION | RECEPTION, WINE & NUTS IN COURTYARD |
| 6:30pm | SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER | |
| 8:30pm | SHUTTLE TO BWSCI | *Time may vary depending on end of dinner. |
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 |
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The General Circulation and Statistical Approaches
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| 9:00am | Jim McWilliams (UCLA) |
Verisimilitude and Imprecision in Climate Simulations |
| 10:00am | Greg Holloway (Inst. of Ocean Sciences) |
Entropic Forcing from Microscales to Macroscales |
| 10:45am | MORNING BREAK | |
| 11:15am | Tim Garrett (Univ. Utah) |
Entropy Production in the Cloud-Climate System |
| 12:00pm | LUNCH BREAK | |
| 1:30pm | FREE AFTERNOON | Shuttle Available to BWSCI *time is flexible |
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Friday, May 09, 2008 |
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Clouds II and the Cryosphere
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| 9:00am | Ray Pierrehumbert (Univ. Chicago) |
Cloud Thermostats and Anti-thermostats |
| 10:00am | Olivier Pauluis (Courant) |
Atmospheric Heat Engines: From the Carnot Cycle to the Global Atmospheric Circulation |
| 10:45am | MORNING BREAK | |
| 11:15am | Ken Golden (Univ. Utah) |
Thermal Evolution of Fluid Permeability in Sea Ice [abstract] |
| 12:00pm | LUNCH BREAK | |
The Carbon Cycle and Geoengineering
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| 1:30pm | Kurt House (Harvard) |
Electrochemical Acceleration of Chemical Weathering |
| 2:30pm | David Keith (Univ. Calgary) |
Photophoretic Levitation of Stratospheric Aerosols for Efficient Geoengineering |
| 3:15pm | AFTERNOON BREAK | |
| 3:45pm | Joe Berry (Carnegie Inst. Global Ecology) |
Linking Biochemical Mechanisms to Earth System Processes: Challenges of Scale |
| 4:45pm | DISCUSSION | |
| 5:45pm | RECEPTION, WINE & NUTS | |
| 6:30pm | SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER | |
| 8:30pm | SHUTTLE TO BWSCI | *Also available to SB Airport and SB Airbus, Goleta location. (See Jocelyn to sign up.) |
ABSTRACTS/POSTER PRESENTATIONS |
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| Freddy Bouchet (INLN-CNRS) |
Equilibrium and Out of Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics of 2D and Geophysical Flows | |
| Stanislav Derevyanko (Aston Univ.) |
The Effect of Turbulence on Droplet Collision and Water Fallout in Warm Clouds | |
| Xavier Levine (Caltech) |
Response of Hadley Circulations to Climate Change [abstract] | |
| Junjun Liu (Caltech) |
Formation of Jets and Equatorial Superrotation on Jupiter [abstract] | |
| Melissa Maestas (Univ. Utah) |
The Role of Radiative-dynamic Feedbacks in Amplifying Surface Warming by Arctic stratus under Polluted Conditions [abstract] | |
| Timothy Merlis (Caltech) |
Formation of Extratropical Jets in a Hierarchy of Atmospheric Models [abstract] | |
| Joerg Schumacher (Univ. Ilmenau) |
Turbulent Fluctuations on Kolmogorov and Sub-Kolomogorov Scales | |
| Agnese Seminara (HSEAS) |
Microdroplet Condensation in Warm Clouds: The Role of Turbulence | |
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Saturday, May 10, 2008 |
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ENGINEERING THE EARTH: A Public Forum on Controlling the Climate |
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| 10:00am | Brad Marston (Brown Univ.) |
Welcome and Introduction |
| Michael Ditmore (Novim) |
Remarks | |
| 10:15am | Kurt House (Harvard) |
The Possibility and Difficulty of Engineering Oceanic and Atmospheric Composition |
| 11:00am | David Keith (Univ. Calgary) |
Limits to Climate Engineering: Ignorance, Physics and Politics |
| 12:00pm | LUNCH BREAK | Luncheon Buffet in the KITP Courtyard |
| 1:30pm | Tony Michaels (USC) |
Ocean Carbon Sequestration - The Acid Test |
| 2:15pm | Ray Pierrehumbert (Univ. Chicago) |
Perils of the Sulfate Sunshield |
| 3:00pm | Roundtable Discussion | Moderator: Catherine Gautier (UCSB) |
| 4:00pm | FORUM CONCLUSION | |
| 4:45pm | SHUTTLE TO BWSCI | *Also available to SB Airport and SB Airbus, Goleta location. (See Jocelyn to sign up.) |
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