Royal Meteorological Society Dynamical Problems Group

Statistical/stochastic approaches to atmospheric physics

Thursday 9th June 2005

Department of Meteorology, University of Reading

(For details of venue see here .)

Programme

1330 Dan Cornford (Aston)
What has statistical physics ever done for us?
1400 Cecile Penland (NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center)
Are El Nino SSTs really skewed? Tests with a stochastic model.
1430 Jacques Vanneste (Edinburgh)
Models of small-scale mixing in the atmosphere and oceans
1500 Terry Lyons (Oxford)
Mathematical formulation of models for short-time coupling in random systems
1530Tea
1600 Bob Plant (Reading)
Stochastic aspects of convection
1630 Glenn Shutts (Met Office)
Kinetic energy backscatter for ensemble forecast systems - some physical justification
1700 Leon Hermanson (Reading)
A study of stochastic parametrizations and missing variance in the ECMWF model
1730Meeting close

Organisers

Meeting organiser: Peter Haynes (University of Cambridge)

Local organiser: Maarten Ambaum (University of Reading)