[Grad-postdoc-assn] ECSA Junior Faculty Forum - Application deadline is TODAY

[Scott Briggs]

Dear colleague -

We are writing to remind you about this year's upcoming NCAR Junior  
Faculty Forum (Boulder, CO; July 14-16) with the theme "Connecting  
Weather and Climate in Theory, Models, and Observations".  The  
deadline for applications is,  ***TODAY***, April 27, 2009.  Details  
can be found at the JFF website

http://www.asp.ucar.edu/ecsa/jff/jff09.php

and in the original announcement attached to the end of this email.

Please feel free to forward this email to any colleagues you think may  
be interested.

Cheers,
Judith Berner and Adam Monahan.


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Dear Colleague,

We are writing to bring to your attention the 2009 NCAR ECSA Junior
Faculty Form on Future Scientific Directions
(July 14-16, 2009 at NCAR) the theme of which is

"Connecting Weather and Climate in Theory, Models, and Observations"

This year's invited speakers are

Geoff Vallis (GFDL)
Greg Holland (NCAR)
Prashant Sardeshmukh (NOAA ESRL)

More information about this Forum follows at the end of this email.
Detailed information, including the application procedure, is
available at

http://www.asp.ucar.edu/ecsa/jff/jff09.php

Please feel free to forward this email to any colleague (including
post-doctoral fellows) you feel may
be interested in this Forum, and we look forward to seeing you in
July.

Sincerely,
Judith Berner (NCAR)
Adam Monahan (University of Victoria)

Although it is well known that weather and climate are but two facets  
of a complex nonlinear system with broad ranges of interacting scales,  
weather and climate models have traditionally been developed separately.

Increasingly, the recognition of weather and climate as parts of a  
single multi-scale system has grown, and a seamless approach to all  
scales has been advocated. There are now efforts on the one hand to  
run climate models at high resolution, and on the other hand to extend  
non-hydrostatic regional models to the global domain. However, the  
need to provide uncertainty estimates (e.g., for the IPCC)  
necessitates running not one but an ensemble of climate models.  
Furthermore, processes on timescales of decades and longer require  
long model integrations.

The aim of this forum is to bring together meteorologists,  
climatologists, applied mathematicians and statisticians, to develop  
strategies for assessing, understanding, and modeling the relationship  
between weather and climate.  Specific issues of interest include:

o Identification of specific physical weather phenomena which couple
strongly to climate and for which a subgrid-model is necessary (e.g.,
MJO, organized convection, atmospheric boundary layer, hurricanes).
o Strategies for balancing the competing needs of resolution, domain
size, duration of simulation, ensemble size and the explicit
modelling of key processes (physical, biological, or chemical).
o Generalized strategies for dealing with subgrid-scale variability in a
macroscopic model and nonlinear interactions of subgrid- and
resolved scales.
o Alternatives to resolving weather in climate ensembles (e.g.,
stochastic parameterization or cloud-resolving convective
parameterization), and novel strategies to use high-resolution or
observational data to develop parameterizations.


The Early Career Scientists Assembly (ECSA) hosts the annual NCAR
Junior Faculty Forum on future scientific directions with the
objective of bringing together junior faculty (or postdoctoral
researchers) and members of NCAR's Early Career Scientists Assembly
(ECSA) to discuss selected topics in the Geosciences.

This forum is open to non-tenured faculty at UCAR member universities
and institutions, with preference given to those within five years of
their first professorial academic appointment (some non-tenured
faculty at non-member universities/institutions in North America may
be considered).




Scott Briggs
Administrative Assistant
Advanced Study Program
National Center for Atmospheric Research
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307-3000
303-497-1607

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