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Today's Topics:
1. 2015 Taipei Severe Weather and Extreme Precipitation Workshop
(Roger Brugge)
2. FW: Summer School: Modeling of Land Surface-Atmosphere
Interactions (Pugh, Thomas Alan Miller (IMK))
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Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 19:48:45 +0000
From: "Roger Brugge" <r.brugge@reading.ac.uk>
Subject: [Met-jobs] 2015 Taipei Severe Weather and Extreme
Precipitation Workshop
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2015 Taipei Severe Weather and Extreme Precipitation Workshop
"2015 Taipei SWEP Workshop"
Taipei, Taiwan, 25-27 May 2015
Workshop Theme:
Severe weather and extreme precipitation cause great damages to
properties and even human lives, and they are mainly associated with
deep convective systems such as severe storms in midlatitudes and
hurricanes/typhoons in the tropics. They produce high winds, large
hails, lightning and flash floods that impact our daily life. Deep
convection also plays pivotal role in the transport of momentum which is
an efficient adjustment mechanism to balance the energy and many major
trace chemicals. Understanding how severe weather and extreme
precipitation occur is a major scientific challenge in both weather and
climate scale. It is also important to understand how severe weather and
extreme precipitation are simulated in the weather and climate model,
and how they will change in the future warming world.
This workshop invites research papers on recent progress related to the
areas of severe weather and extreme rainfall, especially those based on
observations and modeling. We especially emphasize remote sensing (such
as radar and satellite) in observational techniques and modeling efforts
that intend to understand the underlying physics and the need to improve
model capability in both weather and climate scales. The following are
tentative topics to be addressed:
- Characteristics of systems that produce severe weather and extreme
precipitation (SWEP)
- Remote sensing and in-situ monitoring techniques
- Pre-convective environment
- Early and mature convections and clouds
- Numerical simulations of SWEP systems
- Forecast model development and verification in various scales.
- Severe weather and extreme precipitation in climate model
- Future changes in severe weather and extreme precipitation
Workshop Program Committee:
- Pao K. Wang, Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia
Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
- Vincenzo Levizzani, National Research Council of Italy - Institute of
Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (CNR-ISAC), Italy
- Martin Setvek, Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, Praha, Czech Republic
- Chun-Chieh Wu, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Huang-Hsiung Hsu, Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia
Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
- Po-Hsiung Lin, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Important Dates:
- Abstract Deadline 15 March 2015
- Final Program 15 April 2015
- 2015 Taipei SWEP Workshop 25 ? 27 May 2015
2015 Taipei SWEP Workshop Web site:
All information related to 2015 Taipei SWEP Workshop will be posted on
the Taipei SWEP Web site at:
http://www.rcec.sinica.edu.tw/index.php?action=news&cid=3&id=53
Contacts:
Chian-Yi Liu <cyliu@ncu.edu.tw>, National Central University, Taiwan
No registration fee!
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Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 08:06:02 +0100
From: "Pugh, Thomas Alan Miller (IMK)" <thomas.pugh@kit.edu>
Subject: [Met-jobs] FW: Summer School: Modeling of Land
Surface-Atmosphere Interactions
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Dear all, please see the information about the summer school below:
MICMoR Summer School 2015
Modeling of Land Surface - Atmosphere Interactions KIT/IMK-IFU, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany August 16-26, 2015
The terrestrial biosphere, soils, hydrosphere and the atmosphere are highly dynamic compartments of the Earth system. All these compartments are tightly coupled and strongly interact in a complex way by the exchange of vast quantities of energy, water, greenhouse gases, nutrients and other trace substances. Feedback interactions between land surface processes and the atmosphere are particularly important over heterogeneous landscapes and in structurally complex areas such as mountain regions.
This course will provide PhD students and Postdocs the opportunity to deepen their understanding of land surface - atmosphere interactions and how to describe and simulate them in models. Course participants will engage in classroom lectures, computer lab simulation exercises, and fi eld tours to understand and directly apply knowledge about land surface - atmosphere interactions. One of the fi eld trips will be in collaboration with the InnSAR Summer School of the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Lectures will focus on the fundamental mechanisms that couple the atmosphere and biosphere, the common approaches to modeling these mechanisms, and to challenges for these models due to land-surface heterogeneity and ecosystem complexity. We will also provide hands-on instruction for the use of a suite of model types, covering a range of scales and complexity levels, from single plant to ecosystem and global simulations. Students will work in groups to design, implement, and present model-based mini-research projects.
By the end of the course, participants will be able to model the basics of the landsurface energy budget, biosphere - atmosphere fl ux exchanges, understand the modeling implications of different spatial and temporal scales, understand the sensitivity of land-surface processes to variable climate forcings, land-use and ecosystem structure changes. Participants will have gained hands-on experience with model-based experimentation, model evaluation, statistical analysis and scientifi c presentation of model results, and be familiar with the operations of at least two comprehensive land surface - atmosphere interaction modeling systems at different scales and complexity levels.
The course is open to a maximum of 25 participants (Graduate Students, Postdocs) with a background and research topic in land surface - atmosphere interactions.
To apply, please submit a statement of motivation, a short CV highlighting your educational background and research positions or experience, and arrange to have a letter of recommendation sent by your advisor, or an academic familiar with your work. Please send your application documents to the MICMoR Coordination Offi ce at info@micmor.kit.edu. Application deadline is May 15, 2015. There is no tuition fee; however, participants must cover travel and accommodation costs.
More information at:
http://polmar.awi.de/fileadmin/user_upload/redakteur/Training_Programme/MICMOR_SummerSchool2015_Flyer.pdf
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