Friday, July 22

MS442
Dynamics of the Earth's Climate

Organized by SIAG/DS

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: 109

Climate and climate change offer new and challenging opportunities for research in the mathematical sciences. We have only one Earth, and the only experiments we can carry out must rely on mathematical models. These models range over many scales, both in space and in time, and involve feedback mechanisms that are rarely intuitively obvious. The speakers in this minisymposium will highlight some interesting mathematical problems that have come from climate science and can be addressed with techniques developed in the dynamical systems community.

Organizer: Hans G. Kaper
Argonne National Laboratory and Georgetown University, USA
Mary Silber
Northwestern University, USA
Mary Lou Zeeman
Bowdoin College and Cornell University, USA

10:00-10:25 Dynamics of an Energy Balance Model with Ice Albedo Feedback abstract

Esther Widiasih, University of Arizona, USA

10:30-10:55 Normal-form Based Analysis of Climate Time Series abstract

Jan Sieber, ; J. M. T. Thompson, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom

11:00-11:25 Dynamical Response of Earth's Climate to Forcing abstract

Ka-Kit Tung and J.S Zhou, University of Washington, USA

11:30-11:55 The Probability Distribution of Surface Winds abstract

Adam Monahan, University of Victoria, Canada