Program

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Tuesday, July 28  
   
18:00 - 20:00 Registration
   
19:00 - 21:00 Welcome reception
   
   
Wednesday, July 29  
   
08:45 - 09:00 Scientific Coordinators
  Opening
   
09:00 - 09:40 Erich Becker (Leibniz-Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Kühlungsborn)
  Hydrodynamic conservation laws and turbulent friction in atmospheric circulation models
   
09:40 - 10:20 George C. Craig (DLR Institute for Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen)
  Equilibrium and non-equilibrium cumulus convection
   
10:20 - 10:40 Jahanshah Davoudi (University of Toronto)
  Fluctuation of up-draft mass flux in a cloud resolving simulation with interactive radiation
   
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 11:40 Jürgen Kurths (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)
  Synchronization and complex networks: Are such theories useful for earth sciences?
   
11:40 - 12:20 Michael Ghil (ENS Paris & University of California Los Angeles)
  Random attractors and predictability in climate dynamics
   
12:20 - 13:00 Peter D. Ditlevsen (University of Copenhagen)
  The role of stochastic noise in climate dynamics inferred from paleoclimatic time series
   
13:00 - 14:20 Lunch
   
14:20 - 15:00 Petra Friederichs (University of Bonn)
  Stochastic versus uncertainty modeling
   
15:00 - 15:40 Cécile Penland (NOAA Earth Systems Research Laboratory, Boulder)
  How to finesse the stochastic integration problem: A possibility
   
15:40 - 16:00 Frank Kwasniok (University of Exeter)
  Deriving dynamical models from palaeoclimatic records: Application to glacial millennial-scale climate variability
   
16:00 - 16:20 Coffee break
   
16:20 - 16:40 Sebastian Wagner (GKSS Research Center, Geesthacht)
  Statistical and numerical downscaling approaches over southern South America
   
16:40 - 17:20 Mojib Latif (Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences, Kiel)
  From weather to climate prediction
   
17:20 - 18:00 Poster advertisement
   
18:00 Dinner
   
19:00 Poster session
  (incl. beer & wine)
   
   
Thursday, July 30  
   
09:00 - 09:40 Leonard Smith (London School of Economics & Political Science and University of Oxford)
  When might a climate model prove fit-for-purpose?
   
09:40 - 10:20 Antje Weisheimer (ECMWF Reading)
  Model error and seasonal forecasting
   
10:20 - 10:40 Henning Rust (CNRS IPSL Gif-sur-Yvette)
  Quantifying differences in weather types on the basis of PDF dissimilarity measures
   
10:40 - 10:45 Group photo ( to be published on the website)
   
10:45 - 11:00 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 11:40 Valerio Lucarini (University of Bologna)
  Thermodynamic efficiency and entropy production in the climate system
   
11:40 - 12:20 Zhengyu Liu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  Assessing atmospheric response to multiple surface forcings in the observation using the generalized equilibrium feedback analysis
   
12:20 - 12:40 Jonathan Donges (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)
  Complex network approach for recurrence analysis of time series
   
12:40 - 13:00 Susana Barbosa (University of Lisbon)
  Trend patterns in global sea-level variability from satellite altimetry and model data
   
13:00 - 14:20 Lunch
   
14:20 - 15:00 Dave Stainforth (London School of Economics)
  The interpretation and design of ensembles of complex models for climate change decision making
   
15:00 - 15:40 Olivier Talagrand (Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Paris)
  On some aspects of ensemble prediction
   
15:40 - 16:00 Ed Hawkins (University of Reading)
  Estimation of optimal perturbations for decadal climate predictions
   
16:00 - 16:20 Coffee break
   
16:20 - 17:00 Stéphane Vannitsem (Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium)
  Dynamical properties of model output statistics (MOS): The impact of initial condition and model errors
   
17:00 - 17:40 Susanne Theis (Deutscher Wetterdienst, Offenbach)
  Developing an ensemble prediction system for a convection-permitting model: A forecast provider's perspective
   
17:40 - 18:00 Diego Pazó (University of Cantabria)
  Spatio-temporal evolution of perturbations in ensembles initialized by bred, Lyapunov, and singular vectors
   
19:00 Conference Dinner (Restaurant Kurfürstenschänke)
   
   
Friday, July 31  
   
09:00 - 09:40 Kevin Judd (University of Western Australia)
  Statistics and dynamics in an imperfect world
   
09:40 - 10:20 Peter Jan van Leeuwen (University of Reading)
  Data assimilation in high-dimensional highly nonlinear systems
   
10:20 - 10:40 Juan Manuel Lopez (CSIC Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria)
  On the problem of data assimilation by means of synchronisation
   
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 11:40 Stan Yip (University of Exeter)
  Bayesian hierarchical modelling for data assimilation of past observations and numerical model forecasts
   
11:40 - 12:20 Richard Kleeman (New York University)
  Information transfer: Theory and applications
   
12:20 - 12:40 Frank Kwasniok (University of Exeter)
  Deriving dynamical models from palaeoclimatic records: Application to glacial millennial-scale climate variability
   
12:40 Lunch
   
   



Last update: 30/07/2009