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Theme for 2007: Statistics for Numerical Models

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Workshop III. Application of Statistics to Numerical Models: New Methods and Case Studies

21-23 May 2007; Boulder, CO

Venue:
NCAR, Mesa Lab, Main Seminar Room
1850 Table Mesa Dr.
Boulder, CO


Agenda

Monday, May 21, 2007

7:45   University of Colorado (CU) bus pick-up from Golden Buff to NCAR
8:00 - 8:30   Registration and Coffee
8:30 - 8:45   Opening Remarks
Doug Nychka, NCAR Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences
8:45 - 10:15   Project Reports I
The NCAR Thermosphere-Ionosphere-Electrodynamics General Circulation Model: Problems in Developing a Realistic Model
Astrid Maute, NCAR/HAO
Calibration and emulation of the NCAR TIE-GCM
Serge Guillas, SAMSI/Georgia Institute of Technology
10:15 - 10:30   Break
10:30 - 12:00   Invited I
Successful calibration: A practitioners guide
Jason Loeppky, University of British Columbia
Bayesian functional data analysis for computer model validation
Fei Liu, Duke University
12:00 - 1:30   Lunch
1:30 - 3:00   Project Reports II
Improving terrestrial magnetosphere models with optimized ionospheric boundary conditions
Josh Rigler, NCAR/HAO
A statistical algorithm for calibrating the LFM model
Steve Sain, NCAR/IMAGe
3:00 - 3:30   Break
3:30 - 5:00   Group Discussion
Moderator: Jonty Rougier, SAMSI/University of Durham
5:15   CU Bus to Millennium Harvest House
5:30 - 7:00   Mixer at the Millennium Harvest House

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

7:45   CU bus pick-up from Golden Buff to NCAR
8:00 - 8:30   Coffee
8:30 - 10:00   Project Reports III
Characterizing the response of simulated atmospheric boundary layers to stochastic cloud radiative forcing
Robert Tardif, NCAR/RAL
Howard Bondell, North Carolina University/SAMSI
10:00 - 10:30   Break
10:30 - 12:00   Invited II
Joint calibration of multiple computer experiments to multiple physical experiments
Earl Lawrence, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Constructing a risk map for pyroclastic flows: Combining simulations and data to predict rare events
Elaine Spiller, SAMSI
12:00 - 1:30   Lunch
VisLab Tour (1:00-1:30)
1:30 - 3:00   Project Reports IV
Model error and parameter estimation in a simplified mesoscale prediction framework
Guillaume Vernieres, SAMSI
Josh Hacker, NCAR/RAL
3:00 - 3:30   Break
3:30 - 5:00   Group Discussion
Moderator: Derek Bingham, Simon Fraser University
5:00   CU bus to pick-up from NCAR to Golden Buff

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

7:45   CU bus pick-up from Golden Buff to NCAR
8:00 - 8:30   Coffee
8:30 - 10:00   Special Invited
The multiscale challenge of climate modeling
Jim Hack, NCAR/CGD
The peril of the petascale: challenges to scientific computing
John Clyne, NCAR/CISL
10:00 - 10:30   Break
10:30 - 12:00   Invited III
Fast Bayesian estimation of prediction uncertainty in analysis of a computer experiment
William Welch, University of British Columbia
Bayesian data assimilation experiments for numerical ocean models
Michael Dowd, Dalhousie University
12:00 - 1:30   Lunch
1:30 - 3:00   Project Reports V & VI
Functional ANOVA Modeling of Regional Climate Model Experiments
Cari Kaufman, SAMSI/NCAR
Homogeneity, isotropy, and log-normality: Some thoughts on Kolmogorov's turbulence theory
Chunsheng Ma, SAMSI/Wichita State University
3:00 - 3:30   Break
3:30 - 5:00   Group Discussion
Moderator: Doug Nychka, NCAR/IMAGe
5:00   CU bus to pick-up from NCAR to Golden Buff
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