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Second Simons Public Lecture

Dr. Emily Shuckburgh, British Antarctic Survey, visits the San Francisco Bay Area on March 4, 2013, for the second MPE2013 Simons Public Lecture "Climate disruption: what math and science have to say." Read more →

Recent Posts

Nonlinear Waves and the Growth of a Tsunami

February 28th, 2013

This past week at AIM Mark Ablowitz told me about an interesting article (with beautiful pictures) he wrote [...]

Report from AIM: "Nonlinear wave equations and integrable systems - Mathematics for a nonlinear planet"

February 27th, 2013

Prepared by Gino Biondini and Barbara Prinari A small research group has been meeting at the American Institute of [...]

MPE2013 Newsletter

Category Archives: Ocean

Public Lecture

M4TEMOZIOA Matematikaren hitzordua / Cita con las matemáticas 2013 Christiane ROUSSEAU, March 7, 19:00h, Bastida Aretoa Alhóndigabilbao

Climate, General, Mathematics, Ocean, Sustainable Development

BCAM-Basque Center of Applied Mathematics, in collaboration with the Chair of Scientific Culture of the University of the Basque Country and the Alliance of Technological Centers IK4, invite you to the public lecture M4TEMOZIOA Matematikaren Hitzordua I Cita con las … Continue reading →

Meeting

CliMathNet conference 2013

Atmosphere, Climate, Ecology, General, Geophysics, Global Warming, Meteorology, Natural Disasters, Ocean, Political Systems, Risk Analysis, Social Systems

CliMathNet Conference 2013 Continue reading →

Workshop

Advanced dynamical core modeling for atmospheric and oceanic circulation

Atmosphere, Ocean

This is an ICTS-TIFR program with the basic objective of bringing together leading experts in modelling the dynamics of geophysical phenomena, to elucidate the challenges, practical considerations and opportunities and review the present state of understanding. Continue reading →

Workshop

Sustainability and Complex Systems

Ecology, General, Ocean, Risk Analysis

Creating usable models for the sustainability of ecosystems has many mathematical challenges. Ecosystems are complex because they involve multiple interactions among organisms and between organisms and the physical environment, at multiple spatial and temporal scales, and with multiple feedback loops … Continue reading →

Curriculum Material

NASA SpaceMath - Problems in Earth Science

SpaceMath@NASA has created a number of individual math problems for grades 5-12 that feature Earth science themes. This webpage is the archive of these problems - each is given by its title, content, grade level and math skill, and consists … Continue reading →

Curriculum Material

NASA Earth Math

With 46 problems tailored for grades 5-9, students explore the simple mathematics behind global climate change through analyzing graphical data, data from NASA satellites, and by performing simple calculations of carbon usage using home electric bills and national and international … Continue reading →

Special Session

Ri Members’ Masterclass - Making Waves

Climate, Ecology, Energy, General, Geophysics, Global Warming, Natural Disasters, Ocean

We all know something about waves; we’ve seen them in the sea and as ripples on a pond.  We know that sound travels to our ears as a wave and that some properties of light can be explained by its … Continue reading →

Public Lecture

Mathematics and the Melting Polar Ice Caps

Climate, Global Warming, Ocean
Meeting

Advanced Dynamical Core Modeling for Atmospheric and Oceanic Circulations

Atmosphere, Ocean

This program is being organized as a part of the activities related to the “Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013″. The dynamics of geophysical phenomena are multi-scale in nature and the interaction between different scales makes the flow complex. Therefore, the … Continue reading →

Curriculum Material

MCRN Mathematics and Climate Annotated Reading Lists

MCRN Annotated reading lists: Each reading list is designed to provide an introductory guide to one area of climate science through its literature. They can be used for independent study, or as the foundation for upper division and graduate reading courses. … Continue reading →

Curriculum Material

AMS-ASA-MAA-SIAM Math Awareness Month

April is Math Awareness Month in the US! Check out the essays, posters and related materials for 2013 and previous years‘ themes, including: 2013 - Mathematical and Sustainability 2011 - Unraveling Complex Systems 2009 - Mathematics and Climate 2008 - … Continue reading →

Workshop

Statistical Mechanics and Extreme Events in Earth Sciences

Atmosphere, Climate, General, Geophysics, Global Warming, Meteorology, Ocean

The aim of the conference is to bring together scientists from three areas as diverse as Earth Sciences of fluid phenomena, Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics and the Theory of Extreme Events for dynamical systems. Though they have historically common roots and … Continue reading →

Public Lecture

Climate disruption: what math and science have to say

Climate, General, Ocean

Dr. Emily Shuckburgh, British Antarctic Survey, visits the San Francisco Bay Area for the second MPE2013 Simons Public  Lecture. Abstract: The signs of disruption to our climate are all around us. California has seen longer, hotter dry seasons leading to … Continue reading →

MPE Summer School

Data Assimilation in Geosciences

Climate, Meteorology, Ocean

Data assimilation (DA) aims at determining and predicting the state of a dynamical system as accurately as possible by combining heterogeneous sources of information in an optimal way. The mathematical problem of DA is both fundamental in that it aims … Continue reading →

2013 Interdisciplinary Summer School: Data Assimilation in Geoscience

Long Term Program

Mathematics of Oceans

Atmosphere, Climate, Global Warming, Ocean

Fields Institute program on the Mathematics of Oceans, that is to take place in the year 2013 as a part of the initiative for the Mathematics of Planet Earth.
There are three principal themes for this program:
(1) nonlinear ocean wave dynamics, including extreme wave dynamics such as rogue waves and tsunamis,
(2) oceanic circulation and ocean-atmosphere interaction, including global scale phenomena such as the meridional overturning circulation and currents such as the Gulf Stream, mesoscale processes described by quasi-geostrophic flows, as well as highly nonlinear submesoscale processes, including their role in the stability of the earth’s climate, and the impact of their variations; and
(3) wave interactions and turbulence, including statistical descriptions of ocean wave spectra and its role in predictions of sea state and weather. Continue reading →

Workshop

Water Waves: Computational Approaches for Complex Problems

Ocean

The water wave problem is a computationally difficult yet crucially important problem in applications. The difficulties arise mostly from its free boundary (the water surface) nature. The boundary is unknown a priori, and the boundary conditions for the fluid equations are nonlinear. The workshop shall focus on the inviscid problem (which is often physically reasonable) and which renders the equations conservative (Hamiltonian). This simplification also poses additional numerical issues, since, ideally, the computational methods should also reflect the original conservation properties of the equations. We have chosen six “themes” around which the workshop will be organized. The principal objective will be the cross-fertilization of ideas between computational issues within and amongst these themes. Continue reading →

Workshop

The role of oceans in climate uncertainty

Climate, Ocean

The workshop is intended to be a forum for interaction between statisticians, stochasticists, climate modelers, ocean observers and data assimilators. The goal is to develop observation strategies and design computer experiments to better understand the model and data uncertainties that relate directly to oceans and ocean-related feedback mechanisms. The timing is good in that the studies that form the basis for the fifth assessment report of the IPCC are expected to be finished before the workshop. Continue reading →

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