[GTP] GTP core fund increase
BC Low
low at ucar.edu
Mon Apr 13 15:49:37 MDT 2009
Dear Annick,
I very strongly support this request.
Regards,
BC
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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