Workshop on Mathematics of Climate Change, Related Hazards and Risks
July 29 - August 2, 2013
Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas (CIMAT), Guanajuato, México
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Monday July 29 |
Tuesday July 30 |
Wednesday July 31 |
Thursday August 1 |
Friday August 2 |
9:00–10:00 |
Graciela Canziani
Lecture 1: Climate, disease dynamics and fuzzy logic models |
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Graciela Canziani
Lecture 2: Mathematical tools and remote sensors in the analysis of wetland dynamics under the changing climate |
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George Philander
Lecture 1: A Tropical Perspective on Ice Ages |
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George Philander
Lecture 2: How Observations of Ice Ages can Improve Climate Models |
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George Philander
Lecture 3: Why Global Warming is Polarizing; A Nelson Mandela Perspective |
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10:00-11:00 |
Michael Ghil
Lecture 1: Data assimilation: how we got here and where to next? |
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Oscar Fuentes
Lecture 1: Lagrangian transport in geophysical flows |
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Michael Ghil
Lecture 2: Toward a Mathematical Theory of Climate Sensitivity |
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Michael Ghil
Lecture 3: The Coupled Dynamics of Climate and Economics |
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Eli Tziperman
Lecture 2: Even warmer: Equable climate (Eocene, 50 Myr) and a convective cloud arctic feedback |
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10:00-11:30 |
Coffee break |
11:30-12:30 |
Eugenia Kalnay
Lecture 1: Population and Climate Change |
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Eugenia Kalnay
Lecture 2: Beating Chaos and Improving Forecasts |
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Graciela Canziani
Lecture 3: Climate variability and the trophic state of shallow lakes, analyzed through remote sensors and artificial neural networks |
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Eugenia Kalnay
Lecture 3: New Advancements in Data Assimilation |
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Oscar Fuentes
Lecture 3: Towards a tornado climatology of Mexico |
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12:30-13:30 |
Roberto Mechoso
Lecture 1: Designing Global Climate Models: Challenges to numerical methods |
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Roberto Mechoso
Lecture 2: Applying Global Climate Models: Challenges to the interpretation of results (variability of Sahel Rainfall) |
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Roberto Mechoso
Lecture 3: Understanding the behavior of tracers in the atmosphere and the ocean: A dynamical systems approach |
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Oscar Fuentes
Lecture 2: Particle motion in three-dimensional vortices |
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Eli Tziperman
Lecture 3: Very cold climate: Ocean dynamics in a snowball earth |
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13:30-15:00 |
Lunch |
15:00-16:00 |
Bala Rajaratnam
Lecture 1: Statistical Paleoclimate Reconstructions I : Theory and Methods |
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Bala Rajaratnam
Lecture 2: Statistical Paleoclimate Reconstructions II : Theory and Methods |
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Bala Rajaratnam
Lecture 3: Statistical Paleoclimate Reconstructions III : Applications |
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Eli Tziperman
Lecture 1: Warm climates: The Pliocene (2-5 Myr) permanent El Nino and atmospheric superrotation |
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Poster Awards and presentations |
16:00-16:30 |
Coffee break/posters |
16:30-17:30 |
Round Table 1 |
Round Table 2 |
Social event |
Round Table 3 |
Round Table 4 |
18:00-20:00 |
Welcome cocktail CIMATEL |
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