[GTP] GTP core fund increase

[Piotr Smolarkiewicz]

Annick,

This is a well thought and crafted proposal. Definitely, 
it
is crucial to strengthen GTP resources for supporting
fundamental multi-disciplinary science of NCAR and the 
community.

Thank you for taking this initiative.
Piotr


On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:08:29 -0600
  pouquet at ucar.edu wrote:
> Dear GTP members,
> 
> Please find below a request for an increase of GTP core 
>funds.
> 
> Given the late hour at which I learned about this 
>possibility, I  
> apologize for not having discussed these issues with you 
>but I believe  
> that this request is along the lines of what we would 
>like to do in  
> GTP. I strongly
> 
> Your comments are more than welcome. Doug (in the 
>framework of the  
> preceding request, this time for funds with a 3 year 
>time-line) has  
> suggested that you be expressing your support (if any 
>...) for such a  
> proposal.
> 
> I may add that this is very urgent, some of the 
>discussions taking  
> place this coming Tuesday.
> 
> 
> Annick
> 
> 
> ******************
> 
> Dear Doug,
> 
> I am requesting an increase of -GTP- core fund, out of 
>the 1M fund of  
> extra money at NCAR, for a total of $150k, to be 
>allocated as follows:
> 
> a) 0.5 post-doc for applications of fundamental 
>turbulence to the main  
> core of research at NCAR, in weather and climate 
>modeling.
> This 0.5 post-doc is to be supplemented by a 0.5 
>post-doc coming from  
> the scientific divisions of ESSL in co-sponsorship on 
>grounds of  
> common interest.
>                                   Request: ~ 60k
> 
> Please note that you could as well chose to ask for the 
>full post-doc,  
> but the condition would remain the same, as per the 
>suggestion of the  
> advisory board and as per our wish in GTP, to be working 
>on a topic of  
> common interest to GTP and to the scientific divisions 
>in modeling  
> turbulent processes.
> 
> b) a graduate student for GTP on similar projects. This 
>has the  
> advantage of allowing for better links with the 
>university community.
>                                  Request: ~ 45k
> 
> c) funds for an extended visitor program, allowing in 
>particular for  
> (partial) sabbatical (again, co-sponsorship from the 
>scientific  
> divisions will be sought).
>                                   Request: ~ 35k
> 
> d) funds for augmenting the GTP workshop budget 
>(presently of 30k per year).
>                                   Request: 15k
> 
>                      TOTAL Request: $155k
> 
> The many applications that can be envisaged, if we 
>follow the list of  
> seminars and funds recently distributed in GTP, are, to 
>name a few:  
> the turbulent planetary boundary layer, uncertainty, the 
>pathway to  
> dissipation in the atmosphere and ocean, eddy-wave 
>interactions in the  
> atmosphere and ocean, vertical transport by cumulus 
>convection and  
> numerous other transport properties, canopy turbulence 
>in roughness  
> sub-layers, collision-coalescence of cloud droplets and 
>impact on warm  
> rain initiation, signatures of nonlinearity and 
>multi-scale processes  
> in climate dynamics, convection and ionisation in the 
>solar convection  
> zone, or new methods of analysis and visualization of 
>large data sets  
> e.g. using wavelets and/or extensions of the VAPOR 
>software,  
> intermittency and chemistry, ...
> To name a few priorities, getting a better understanding 
>of wind  
> energy generation involves getting a better grasp of the 
>processes in  
> the planetary boundary layer, of intermittency or of 
> gravity wave  
> propagation and interactions.
> 
> Whereas the request in the framework of the 3-year 
>stimulus package is  
> centered on getting ready for peta-scale and modeling, 
>this core  
> request is more on the long-term necessity to find new 
>ways to get  
> accurate data on small-scale processes and two-way scale 
>interactions  
> in a variety of context: what distinguishes the 
>Geophysical Turbulence  
> Program from the topical research in a given division is 
>its attempt  
> at finding synergies and analogies between a variety of 
>problems: it  
> looks for the common processes underlying the various 
>applications. We  
> can think of the family  of HATS experiments measuring 
>inter-scale  
> fluxes as in the BEACHON project, of numerical modeling 
>searching for  
> efficient ways to be both accurate and efficient as when 
>performing  
> adaptive mesh refinement, or of novel theoretical 
>approaches.
> 
> This request represents a sizable increase of the GTP 
>budget,  
> presently of 50k, down from close to perhaps 90k in its 
>glorious past.  
> Our proposal has the advantage to support fundamental 
>science in  
> long-term goals, of being multi-disciplinary and these 
>funds are  
> specifically for various forms of collaborations in 
>support of the  
> community. GTP is a multi-laboratory multi-divisional  
> inter-disciplinary group that tackles the multi-scale 
>physics that  
> needs to be better modeled as peta-scale computing (and 
>beyond)  
> approaches. This plan was presented at the meeting of 
>the IMAGe  
> advisory board and we want to take this opportunity to 
>yield to a  
> rebirth of some of the fundamental activities at NCAR.
> 
> Please let me know if you need any further information.
> 
> Annick
> 
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