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Annick
ANNUAL GTP MEETING, JANUARY 18, 2011
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The annual meeting of GTP was held on the Mesa, with 15 people
attending and 6 explicitly excused. After welcoming 3 new members from
CGD, an overview of some of the salient positive points in GTP
F'10-F'11 was given:
(i) Stimulus package 2-year post-doc for peta-scale computing in
turbulence, attributed to Zbigniew Piotrowski (GTP/MMM), to
collaborate with Piotr Smolarkiewicz;
(ii) Quasi-decadal retreat where a working group on boundary layers
and modeling was created;
(iii) ASP faculty fellowship for Jim Brasseur (Penn. State) for
multi-scale atmospheric chemistry in the boundary layer;
(iv) Plausible funding for the Theme of the Year (TOY) on rotating
stratified turbulence; and
(v) Preliminary thoughts on the creation of a Turbulence Research
Institute for Geophysical flows (TRIG).
The F'10 budget crisis was evoked again, with its solutions (drastic
cuts), and then we went on to examine the propositions for F'11. Were
retained 7 extra seminars (in addition to the 5 already held), 6
long-term visitors, a workshop proposed by Jielun Sun (MMM) on gravity
waves in boundary layers, and two micro-meetings, one for the
constitution of TRIG and one on Stochastic Schramm-L\"owner Evolution
(SLE, see below) as observed in 2D turbulence. A meeting on
particle-ladden turbulent flows and atmosphere-ocean exchange at high
winds is already planned for 2012 (hosts: Grabowski & Sullivan in MMM
and Lian-Ping at U. Delaware).
**************************************************************************
In attendance:
John Clyne, Wojciech Grabowski, Tom Horst, Branko Kosovic, Don
Lenschow, Mark Miesch, Pablo Mininni, Chin-Ho Moeng, Ned Patton, Duane
Rosenberg, Rich Rotunno, Piotr Smolarkiewicz, Peter Sullivan, Jielun
Sun and AP.
* First, let us welcome our new GTP members, all from CGD: Frank
Bryan, Markus Jochum and Sungsu Park.
* GTP was the lucky recipient of a two-year stimulus package
post-doctoral fellowship with travel funds, attributed to Zbigniew
Piotrowski (from Warsaw U.) to work on peta-scale projects in
geophysical turbulence with Piotr Smolarkiewicz (MMM).
* The main conclusions of the retreat held on July 31st were about the
importance of the creation of a working group on boundary layers and
modeling (BL-wg). The group held its first meeting under the
leadership of Peter Sullivan (MMM) in December, with 21 staff in
attendance from CISL, NESL (principally CGD & MMM), RAL & CU. Six
small talks were given to initiate the discussions. The next meeting
is targeted at selecting a ``low-hanging fruit?? of common interest.
The retreat also strongly supported an expansion of GTP core funds
targeted for
(i) early career scientists, and
(ii) the BL working group. The memo is available, just ask me.
* An ASP FELLOWSHIP has been attributed to Jim Brasseur (Penn State)
to come to NCAR on sabbatical; this is to work on chemistry and
turbulence (hosts: Sasha Madronich, ACD, with Ned Patton & Peter
Sullivan, MMM, and Annick Pouquet, IMAGe), more specifically focusing
of nonlinear chemistry by atmospheric boundary layer turbulence and
aerosols in the highly polluted environment. This is excellent news
for GTP, congratulations to Jim! For the exact dates, please ask Sasha
or me.
* Doug Nychka informed us (by mail) that the prospect of
``? the TOY [Theme Of the Year, in IMAGe] proposal with Julien and
Kemper-Fox looks quite good. ?
? TOY will be supported at some level with the hope of meeting the
full 50K [request].''
Funds would be allocated for Keith and Baylor for partial sabbatical
support from CU to work at NCAR on rotating stratified turbulence
(RTS), with NCAR-related applications (please ask me for the one-pager
on this if interested). Again an excellent news for GTP,
congratulations to all!
* Finally, a reminder that there is a project for a Turbulence
Research Institute for Geophysical flows (TRIG), by Fazle Hussain (U.
Texas) and myself. All people to whom I talked were very receptive:
there is a need for the resurgence of research in turbulence. It could
have a strong experimental (observational) component, e.g. in the
spirit of`` Kansas '68'' (see e.g. Kaimal & Wyngaard, Boundary Layer
Met. 50, 31, 1990 or ask Peter Sullivan and colleagues), but with new
improved metrology and instrumentation in general. Again, there is a
one-pager on TRIG which is available, just ask.
OK, LET'S GO NOW TO BUDGET MATTERS.
* First, how did we resolve the budget crisis of F'10, created by my
double-counting funds (carry-over and new)?
With the cooperation of everyone involved, we suppressed all long-term
visitors and all seminars that could be cut, we saved funds allocated
to speakers at the workshop who did not show up at the last moment, we
held a retreat without non-Boulder guests (but Jim McWilliams could
attend) and we received substantial help from CISL from its visitor
program.
* The available funds in F'10 were 61k, spent with 6 seminars (5k), 9
visitors (34k) and a workshop (22k). The workshop on rotating
stratified turbulence was well attended; it was organized by Vladimir
Zeitlin (Institut Laplace), Jean-Marc Chomaz (Ecole Polytechnique)
with Chris Snyder (MMM) and myself (IMAGe). A table can be found, in
the ppt presentation, with names of all GTP visitors and corresponding
spending, again just ask.
* We discussed the necessity or not to carry-over the
earmarked-then-slashed funds of F'10 for visitors and decided to start
from scratch but retaining some of the propositions (not all),
specifically Chorin for a seminar (CGD, host: Joe Tribbia), Liang
(HAO, host: Mark Miesch) and Jonker (MMM, host: Peter Sullivan) for
longer visits (see below).
THE AVAILABLE BUDGET FOR GTP IN F'11
IS: 72.5 k
** PROPOSAL FOR A RESERVE: 7.2 k (i.e., 10% of this year's budget)
** PROPOSALS FOR WORKSHOPS, for a total of 40k this year and 45 k next
year (possibly overflowing to F'13):
We have many propositions, some of them not ready for F'11, some of
them for micro-meetings:
1) Jielun Sun (MMM) on gravity waves and boundary layers, for 30 k;
possibly held in late Spring 2012.
2) Wojciech Grabowski with Peter Sullivan and Lian-Ping (U. Del.), on
particle-laden turbulent flows (a topic receiving a lot of
attention/funding in Europe) and atmosphere-ocean exchange at high
winds, for 30 k, in F'12.
3) Ned Patton (MMM) on turbulence and chemistry (see minutes of last
year) for 15k (but see below).
4) Annick (IMAGe) on a constitutive high-end organizational meeting
for TRIG, request for 5k.
5) Annick (IMAGe) on a 1.5 day tutorial on SLE (stochastic Schramm
Loewner Evolution); this is all the rage in some corners because of
the bridge between conformal field theory, critical phenomena and
turbulence (see Bernard et al. Nature Physics 2, 12, 2006, on how this
applies to two-dimensional Navier-Stokes turbulence in the presence of
friction). A tutorial may be needed indeed ? The request is also for 5k.
** PROPOSALS FOR VISITORS for a total of 30.8 k:
Brachet (Host: Duane Rosenberg, IMAGe), request 5 k
Jonker (host: Peter Sullivan, MMM), request 5 k
Lohou (host: Ned Patton, MMM), request 5 k
Liang (host: Miesch, HAO), request 1.3 k
Politano (host: Annick Pouquet, IMAGE), request 5 k
Want (host: Wojciech Grabowski, MMM), request 5 k
XX for VAPOR outreach (John Clyne, CISL), request 2.5 k
ZZ for 2 separate weeks, lodging only (host: Piotr Smolarkiewicz,
MMM), request 2 k
** PROPOSALS FOR SEMINARS, at 1k each, for a total of 8 k:
Beresnyak (host: Mininni, IMAGe)
Bhattacharjee (host: Miesch, HAO)
Borovsky (host: Pouquet, IMAGe)
Chorin (host: Tribbia, CGD, request from last year)
Kimura (host: Herring, MMM emeritus, request from last year for
partial support)
Salmon (host: Herring, MMM emeritus, request from last year)
Sreenivasan (host: Fournier, MMM, request from last year)
Yokoi (host: Miesh, HAO)
TOTAL REQUESTS: 85.8 k, close to 20% above budget.
DECISIONS
Seminars & workshops do not have overhead, visitors do; so 4.6 k is
roughly 3 k for spending + overhead.
- Shift Brachet's visit to RSVP/CISL (under the assumption that his
application will be successful).
- Shift Yokoi's seminar to F'12 (he might come in October).
- Reduce all others by roughly 10% (more for the reserve), with two
exceptions.
-- 30 k for workshop on gravity waves and boundary layers
-- 4.6 k for SLE tutorial
-- 4.6 k for TRIG constitutive meeting
-- 4.6 k for Harm Jonker
-- 4.6 k for Fabienne Lohou
-- 4.6 k for H\'el\`ene Politano
-- 4.6 k for Lian-Ping Want
-- 2.2 k for VAPOR outreach
-- 1.8 k for Piotr's visitor
-- 1.2 k for Chunlei Liang
-- 6.3 k for 7 seminars at 0.9 k each
-- 3.4 k for reserve for small unexpected expenses and/or for a few
extra seminars (TBD)
FOR A TOTAL OF: 72.5 k
Given the agreement about workshops reached at the meeting and the
fact that the organization of a workshop has to be made quite ahead of
time, it is decided that the workshop on particle-laden turbulent
flows and atmosphere-ocean exchange at high winds (such as hurricane
spray) will be held in 2012 (Lian-Ping (U. Del.), Grabowski and
Sullivan organizers). We could also have a mini workshop on chemistry
and turbulence in 2012 or 2013. Also note that some funds may probably
be requested in F'12 to support the boundary layer working group.
MISCELLANEOUS
- We decided to make do without cookies and coffee for the seminars,
with exceptions, because of the rather high cost when going through
the cafeteria. MMM offers help when we have a joint seminar, so does
HAO in fact. I volunteer to buy cookies and fruits in the other cases,
but I don't promise I'll remember!
- We decided to weed out a bit the GTP mailing list, I'll be checking
out with you for some names.
- One day, we'll find time to put together a fully functional web-page
for GTP, which would be helpful; and I also have to write a revised
mission statement ?:
- I also think it might be best in fact to return to an earlier date
for the annual meeting, like the end of October, so that there is time
for the workshop to be organized for the next summer. We see a trend
to already pre-think about coming years for GTP workshops. Let me know
if you disagree.
As a last point, let us congratulate Don Lenschow on his emeritus
status, and Peter Sullivan for accepting to be at the helm of the
Boundary Layer and Turbulence Section in MMM!
Thank you for your time, and Happy New Year again to all of you.
Annick, January 24
AVAILABLE DOCUMENTS, just ask me
(pouquet at ucar.edu)
* Presentation for the GTP annual meeting (9+2 slides)
* Post-retreat memo (1 page)
* TOY proposal on rotating stratified turbulence (1.5 page)
* TRIG proposal (1 page)
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