Workshop Title: Mathematics in Climate Science

Location: University of Exeter, Harrison Bldg. R.203

Date: Friday, May 13

Programme:

10.00 – 11.00, Chris K.R.T. Jones

“Sea-Ice as a Trigger of Thermohaline Oscillations and some thoughts on mathematics and climate”

11.00 – 11.20, David Stephenson

“Mathematical modelling of weather and climate at Exeter: Overview of Exeter Climate Systems”

11.20 – 11.35 Tea break

11.35 – 11.55, Chris Ferro

“Evaluating forecasting systems”

11.55 – 12.15, Renato Vitolo

“Extreme value laws in chaotic dynamical systems”

12.15 – 12.35, Sebastian Wieczorek

“On critical rates and triggers for tipping in forced systems”

12.35 – 14.00, Lunch break. Lunch has to be sorted out individually but we could all go to the Innovation Centre.

14.00 – 15.00, Jan Sieber

“Application of timeseries analysis techniques to climate time series”

15.00 – 15.20, Matt Collins

“Perspectives on Uncertain Climate Projections”

15.20 – 15.35 Tea break

15.35 – 15.55, Frank Kwasniok

“Data-based stochastic subgrid parametrisation using cluster-weighted modelling”

15.55 – 16.15, John Thuburn

“Using Differential Geometry to Develop Weather and Climate Models”

16.15 – 16.35, Peter Cox

“Variability as a constraint on sensitivity: how likely is climate-driven tropical forest dieback?”

For more details, please contact Sebastian Wieczorek.