August 9, Saturday --------------------------------- NCAR Mesa Lab Damon room 8:30 - 9:00 Welcome and overview 9:00 - 10:30 A framework for fitting curves and functions (Doug Nychka) 10:30 - 10:45 BREAK 10:45 - 12:00 Examples in R and fields (Doug Nychka) ---------------- 12:00- 1:30 Lunch, questions and examples. ---------------- 1:30 - 3:00 Multivariate spatial models (Stephan Sain) 3:00- 3:15 BREAK 3:15 - 5:00 Sparse matrix methods and fields (Reinhard Furrer) 5:00 Mixer, location: TBA August 10, Sunday --------------------- NCAR Mesa Lab Damon room Morning Hike/walk either in Boulder Mountain Park or at the CU Mountain Research Station. -------------- Lunch on Pearl Street or Nederland. -------------- 1:30 - 3:00 Formats and manipulation of geophysical datasets. (Tim Hoar) 3:30 - 3:45 Break 3:45 - 4:15 Some examples and projects with climate data 4:15 - 5:00 R/ fields open session August 11, Monday ----------------- 8:30 - 10:00 The climate system and climate models (Gerald Meehl) 10:00 - 10:30 BREAK 10:30- 12:00 Statistics for climate model experiments (Claudia Tebaldi) ------------ 12:00- 1:15 Lunch (ML cafeteria) ----------- 1:15 - 2:00 Statistics for climate model experiments (Claudia Tebaldi) 2:00 - 3:00 Spatial models for AOGCM experiments 3:00 - 3:30 BREAK 3:30 - 5:00 Examples, projects and open questions. August 12, Tuesday ------------------ 8:30 - 10:00 Regional climate modeling (Raymond Arritt) 10:00 - 10:20 BREAK 10:30 - 10:50 NCAR supercomputer machine room tour (Group A) vislab demo (Group B) 10:50 - 11:10 Group A and B switch 11:10 - 12:00 Moving and cooling Big Iron (Gary New) ------------- 12:00 - 1:15 Lunch ------------- 1:15 - 3:45 Statistical modeling regional climate: Spatial Lattice Models (Stephan Sain) 3:45 - 4:00 BREAK 4:00 - 5:00 VAPOR description and demo (Alan Norton) August 13, Wednesday -------------------- 8:30 - 10:00 Paleoclimate (Caspar Ammann) 10:00 - 10:30 BREAK 10:30 - 12:00 Reconstructing past climate ( Doug Nychka for Bo Li) ------------ 12:00 - 1:15 LUNCH ----------- 1:15 Open