Advanced Mathematical Methods to Study Atmospheric Dynamical Processes and Predictability (11ss065)

Objectives

The main objective of the proposed summer school is to expose young talents to a variety of advanced mathematical techniques that play an important role in the investigation of atmospheric dynamical processes and atmospheric predictability. Great emphasis will be placed on challenging open problems of the subject area. The program targets applied mathematics and atmospheric sciences graduate students. The expected outcome is the emergence of (i) young mathematicians who can take advantage of the broader funding opportunities available to those who conduct interdisciplinary research, (ii) young atmospheric scientists who are aware of the advanced mathematical techniques that are available to study atmospheric dynamical processes and predictability and, in general, (iii) future experts to design mathematical algorithms to address complex problems related to weather and climate. While all techniques will be illustrated on atmospheric examples, many of them can be easily applied to other fluid systems, or more generally, to systems whose evolution can be modeled by the numerical solution of a system of partial differential equations. Thus, even students who will eventually do most of their research in areas outside of the atmospheric sciences, will have a high chance to benefit from attending this summer school at some point of their career.

The workshop will be organized by members of the Predictability and Dynamical Processes (PDP) Working Group (WG) of the international weather research program THORPEX. The members of the PDP WG are all internationally recognized leading PDP experts who were appointed by the International Core Steering Committee of the program. Since THORPEX is an international program with active local research components on five continents, we expect to be able to identify talented young scientists to participate in the summer school from all around the world. The travel expenses of students from developing countries will be covered by the International Program Office of THORPEX. (Detailed information about THORPEX can be found at http://www.wmo.ch/pages/prog/arep/thorpex/index_en.html). Our plan is to invite 8 lecturers and 32 students.