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Summer School: Geophysical Turbulence
14 July - 1 August 2008, Boulder, Colorado
NCAR, Mesa Laboratory, Main Seminar Room
AGENDA
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
8:30 - 9:15
Registration and coffee
Coffee
Coffee
Coffee
Coffee
9:15 - 10:30 From Quasi-Geostrophy to Boussinesq Dynamics and "In Between." Principal Lecturer: Leslie Smith, University of Wisconsin-Madison GFD Basics Jeff Weiss, University of Colorado - Boulder Derivation of the Boussinesq Equations Leslie Smith Linear and Nonlinear Structure of the Rotating Boussinesq (RB) Equations in Terms of Waves Leslie Smith Traditional and Alternative Derivations of the Quasi-Geostrophic (QG) Equations from RB Leslie Smith Results of Numerical Simulations and Derivation of Reduced Models "In Between" QG and RBE Leslie Smith
10:30 - 11:00
Morning Break Morning Break Morning Break Morning Break Morning Break
11:00 - 12:30 Multi-scale Models on Atmospheric Mesoscale Principal Lecturer: Andrew Majda, New York University Overview and Theory Andrew Majda Theory Andrew Majda Theory and New Numerical Strategies Andrew Majda Super-parameterization Yulong Xing, New York University Models for Convectively Coupled Waves Samuel Stechmann, New York University
12:30 - 2:00
Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
2:00 - 3:20
School Logistics John Clyne, Keith Julien, Andy Majda, Leslie Smith, Jeff Weiss Students Presentations Mike Dvorak Free Time
Coherent Structures Jeff Weiss Rotationally Constrained Convective Flows Keith Julien
3:20 - 3:40
Afternoon Break Afternoon Break Afternoon Break Afternoon Break Afternoon Break
3:40 - 5:00
Tour to Supercomputer Room
Student presentations (cont.) Free Time
Coherent Structures in Shear Flows Fabian Waleffe Turbulent Langmuir Circulation Greg Chini, University of New Hampshire
IMAGe Theme-of-the-Year 2008 - Summer School Agenda
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
8:30 - 9:15 Coffee
Coffee
Coffee
Coffee
Coffee
9:15 - 10:30 Turbulence in Geophysical Flows and Tutorial Joseph H. Fernando, Arizona State University Waves in Fluids and Tutorial Joseph H. Fernando "In Situ" And Remote Sensing of Turbulence Larry Cornman, Research Applications Laboratory, NCAR Atmospheric Boundary Layer and Tutorial Joseph H. Fernando Subgrid-Scale Motions in Rough Wall Boundary Layers Peter Sullivan, NCAR
10:30 - 11:00 Morning Break Morning Break Morning Break Morning Break Morning Break
11:00 - 12:30 Turbulence in Geophysical Flows and Tutorial Joseph H. Fernando VAPOR Tutorial John Clyne, NCAR "In Situ" and Remote Sensing of Turbulence (cont.) Larry Cornman Numerical Modeling of Multiscale Atmospheric Flow: From Cloud Microscale to Climate Wojciech Grabowski, NCAR Turbulence Modeling for Atmospheric Simulations Thomas Lund, CoRA
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
2:00 - 3:20 Tutorial Session Joseph Werne, CoRA Seminar: "Domain
Decomposition Methods for Partial Differential Equations" David Keyes, Columbia University Tour of the Supercomputer Room at 1:10pm Student Work on Projects Student Presentations at 2:30pm Dan Dombroski
3:20 - 3:40 Afternoon Break Afternoon Break Afternoon Break Afternoon Break Afternoon Break
3:40 - 5:00 Student PresentationsNgan Fong
Student PresentationsThorwald Stein
Student Work on Projects Student Work on Projects Student Work on Projects
5:30 - 7:20
Reception Mesa Laboratory Cafeteria
IMAGe Theme-of-the-Year 2008 - Summer School Agenda
Locations: Main Seminar Room, and Vislab
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Room⇒ Main Seminar and Vislab V i s l a b
8:30 - 9:00 Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee
9:00 - 10:15 Regional Scale Modeling and Numerical Weather Prediction Jimy Dudhia, NCAR MMM Global-Scale Modeling Joe Tribbia, NCAR CGD The Peril of the Petascale: Looming Challenges in Large-Scale Computational Science John Clyne A Short Tour of Some Aesthetic Principles of visualization Geoffrey Vasil, University of Colorado - Boulder Lab Work 1 Free Time
10:15 - 10:45 Morning Break Morning Break Morning Break Morning Break Morning Break
10:45 - 12:45 The Wind in the Willows (Canopy Turbulence) Edward (Ned) Patton, MMM NCAR Wind Shear Turbulence Joseph Werne, CoRA Gravity Wave Breaking in the Atmosphere Joseph Werne, NWRA/CoRA Turbulent Transport: Quantifying the Role of Coherent Structures Mark Rast, Colorado University The P in HPC, Architectural Trends, and Stupid Stuff Joseph Werne Lab Work 1 Vector Data Visualization Alan Norton, NCAR CISL Student Presentations
12:45 - 2:00 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
2:00 - 3:20 Getting Started on Analysis John Clyne and Joseph Werne Scalar Data Visualization for Volumetric (3D) Fields John Clyne Lab Work 1 Lab Work 2 Student Presentations Joseph Werne
3:20 - 3:40 Afternoon Break Afternoon Break Afternoon Break Afternoon Break Closing RemarksSummer School Adjourn
3:40 - 5:00 Student Presentations Dorota Jarecka
Stereo VisualizationTim Scheitlin, NCAR
Lab Work 1
Free Time
5:30 - 7:30
Picnic at Flagstaff Mountain
