Nov 8-10, 2017
Dynamical Cores and Overall Design
California Institute of Technology
| Time | Event | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Coffee/Check-in | |
| 9:00 - 9:10 | Workshop Goals | Tapio Schneider (Caltech/JPL) and João Teixeira (JPL) |
| 9:10 - 9:20 | Welcome | Charles Trimble (Caltech Board of Trustees; Founder of Trimble Navigation, Ltd.) |
| 9:20 - 9:30 | Paul Allen’s Interests in Earth System Modeling | Spencer Reeder (Paul G. Allen Philanthropies) |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Climate Modeling 1.0: Crises in “Workhorse” GCM Development | Paul Kushner (University of Toronto) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Earth System Modeling at ECMWF: Ambitions and Solutions | Nils Wedi (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Modeling Systems at the End of Dennard Scaling | V. Balaji (Cooperative Institute for Climate Science, Princeton University) |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Some Perspectives on Rate Limiters to Advancing Earth System Modeling Capabilities | James Hack (National Center for Computational Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory) 12:00 - 1:30 |
| 12:00 - 1:30 | Lunch (The Linde Center Courtyard) | |
| 1:30 - 2:00 | Short Responses to Morning Presentations | Paul Kushner, Nils Wedi, V. Balaji, James Hack (6 min. each) |
| 2:00 - 3:00 | Open Discussion: Practice of Model Development and Challenges on the Horizon | |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Some Thoughts Concerning Atmospheric Dynamical Cores for Earth System Models | David Williamson (National Center for Atmospheric Research) |
| 4:00 - 4:30 | Folklores, Dogma, and Challenges in Weather and Climate Modeling | Shian-Jiann Lin (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/NOAA) |
| 4:30 - 5:00 | Building Next-Generation Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Models for Atmosphere and Ocean Modeling: Two-Decades of Lessons Learned | Frank Giraldo (Naval Postgraduate School) |
| 5:00 - 5:30 | Mesh-Free Methods, Machine Learning, and Accelerator Platforms: A 21st-Century Perspective on Earth System Modeling | Natasha Flyer (National Center for Atmospheric Research) |
| Time | Event | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Short Responses to Wednesday Afternoon Presentations | David Williamson, Shian-Jiann Lin, Frank Giraldo, Natasha Flyer (6 min. each) |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Open Discussion: Future Dynamical Cores for Weather and Climate Modeling | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | The Future of Turbulence and Convection in Climate Models | João Teixeira (JPL) |
| 11:00 -11:30 | A Finite-Volume Module for All-Scale Simulations of Global Atmospheric Flows | Piotr Smolarkiewicz (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts) |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Advances in Numerical Methods and Climate Modeling: A Numerical Analyst's Perspective | Siddhartha Mishra (ETH Zurich) |
| 12:00 - 12:10 | Schmidt Sciences’ Interests in Earth System Modeling | Stuart Feldman (Schmidt Philanthropies) |
| 12:10 - 1:15 | Lunch (Keck Center Courtyard) | |
| 1:15 - 2:00 | Building an Ocean Climate Model From Scratch | Alistair Adcroft (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/NOAA), with contributions by John Marshall (MIT) |
| 2:00 - 2:30 | Short Responses to Earlier Presentations | Piotr Smolarkiewicz, João Teixeira, Sid Mishra, Alistair Adcroft, Raffaele Ferrari (6 min. each) |
| 2:30 - 3:30 | Open Discussion: Numerical Methods for Climate Models | |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 4:00 - 4:30 | Issues in Data Assimilation for Earth System Models | Chris Snyder (National Center for Atmospheric Research) |
| 4:30 - 5:00 | Challenges and Opportunities of Carbon Cycle Data Assimilation in an Earth System Modeling Framework | Junjie Liu (JPL) |
| 5:00 - 5:30 | Earth System Modeling 2.0: Why We Must and How We Can Improve ESMs | Tapio Schneider (Caltech) |
| 6:00 | Workshop Reception and Dinner, Caltech Athenaeum (building #61) | |
| Time | Event | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Why Climate Models and Data-Assimilation Should be Built Together | Peter Jan Van Leeuwen (University of Reading) |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Data Assimilation Algorithms for Earth System Models | Andrew Stuart (Caltech) |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Short Responses to Data Assimilation Presentations | Chris Snyder, Junjie Liu, Tapio Schneider, Peter Jan Van Leeuwen, Andrew Stuart (6 min. each) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Open Discussion: Data Assimilation for Earth System Models | |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Plans for Earth System Modeling at Caltech/JPL | Mark Simons (JPL, Caltech) |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Workshop Outcomes and Next Steps | Raffaele Ferrari, Tapio Schneider, Andrew Stuart, João Teixeira |
| 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch (Keck Center Courtyard) | |
| End of formal workshop program | ||
| 1:00 - 4:00 | Informal discussion of follow-up plans among participants who will stay through Friday evening/Saturday (Keck Center, Black Hole Conference Room, Tollman House) | |