Friday, 8 May 2009

Climate modelling practical / breakout session at the Atmospheric Sciences Workshop

The climate modelling practical will be run by Tom Bracegirdle and attended by Andrew Charlton, Erik Kolstad and David B Stephenson. All are experts in various aspects of climate modelling and data analysis.

The session will be built around the analysis of a very simple climate model, which only takes a couple of minutes to run. The theme of the exercise is the sensitivity of the polar regions to changes in key forcing parameters. The plan is for groups of 3 people to work through a series of questions and experiments that are initially basic, but become more open/challenging. Groups are free to devise their own experiments and analyse the results.

At the end of the session each group will present a short (~2 slide) presentation on their most important result(s).

If there is time, we may form breakout groups to come up with recommendations in response to any issues arising during the morning group discussion.

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