<div class="gmail_quote"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Dear Colleague,</span><br><div style="background-color:transparent">
<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We would like to draw your attention to session</span><br>


<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">NP8.2 Stochastic Approaches for Multiscale Modelling in Geosciences</span><br>


<a href="http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2012/session/9301" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2012/session/9301</span></a><br>


<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">at  the EGU General Assembly, being held 22-27 April 2012 in Vienna</span><br>


<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(</span><a href="http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2012/home.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2012/home.html</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) </span><br>


<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The description of the session is attached below. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Please consider submitting an abstract to this session.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We would appreciate if you could also bring this session to the attention of other interested researchers and students.</span><br>


<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">You may submit an abstract at</span><br>


<a href="http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2012/abstract_management/how_to_submit_an_abstract.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2012/abstract_management/how_to_submit_an_abstract.html</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span><br>

<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The deadline for submission of abstracts is fast approaching: </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Monday, 17th January 2012.</span><br>


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Sincerely,<br></span></font><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Balu Nadiga, Daniel Schertzer, Jinqiao Duan, Christian Franzke</span><br>


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<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">NP8.2 Stochastic Approaches for Multiscale Modelling in Geosciences</span><br>


<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Session Description: The myriad physical processes that occur over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales in geophysical systems give rise to complex behavior and low frequency variability.  Neither the importance of understanding the low frequency variability nor the difficulty of being able to appropriately model it can be over-emphasized. Indeed, several deficiencies in predicting such systems (e.g., climate) can be traced back to a misrepresentation of scale interactions. The latter, in turn, leads to systematic biases in resolved-scale processes. <br>


<br>From the modeling point of view, given the nonuniqueness of small scales with respect to large scales and possible separation of scales between those explicitly modeled and those studied, stochastic approaches can provide more realistic representations of the multiscale variability and allow transitions between attractors.  On the other hand, such approaches also allow for a quantification of uncertainties that are inherent in the modeling of these multiscale systems. It is important to note that such quantification of uncertainty is directly linked to the ability to compare models and observations, and combine them as in data assimilation techniques.<br>


<br>We invite contributions spanning fundamental studies of stochastic approaches, stochastic modelling of geophysical systems, stochastic parameterisations,  data assimilation using stochastic methods and extreme value studies using a stochastic framework.</span></div>


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