Call for Abstracts
2006 Joint Assembly
Session IN04: Multidisciplinary Global Modeling: The Really Big Picture
Abstract Submission Deadline: Wednesday, 1 March 2006
For further information, please go to:
http://www.agu.org/meetings/ja06/?content=search&show=detail&sessid=141
The 2006 Joint Assembly Meeting will be held 23-26 May 2006 in
Baltimore, Maryland. The Assembly is a partnership between the American
Geophysical Union, Geochemical Society, Microbeam Analysis Society,
Mineralogical Society of America, Society of Exploration Geophysicists,
and Union Geofisica Mexicana.
Please consider submitting an abstract to the following session at the
2006 Joint Assembly Meeting:
IN04: Multidisciplinary Global Modeling: The Really Big Picture
There was a session on this topic at the Fall AGU meeting and organizers
are looking for interested scientists and data managers to continue this
important conversation.
Session Description:
Scientists modeling Earth properties and processes are empowered by a
rapidly expanding collection of observational measurements; increasingly
powerful, affordable, and accessible computational resources; and
increasingly robust data analysis, modeling, and assimilation
techniques.
A common set of challenges is found in most realms of Earth and space
sciences ranging from modelers of the Earth's interior, to near surface
geophyics, to hydrology, oceanography, atmospheric sciences, up through
magnetospheric physics. All are confronted with barriers related to:
disparate data formats, widely varying access methods, incomplete human
and machine readable metadata, and limited discovery systems.
This session is intended to facilitate the exchange of ideas between
providers of observational data products and modelers of Earth system
processes in order to increase the overall capacity of the Earth and
space science community. It will also address systems that foster
research at the interfaces between individual disciplines.
The following issues are among those to be addressed in this session:
modeling technologies and techniques with potential application across
multiple disciplines; approaches that facilitate models of Earth system
processes on different scales, including the nesting of local models
using global model output for initialization and boundary conditions;
facilities for overcoming barriers to the use of observational data in
modeling; and tools for translating and integrating observational data
for assimilation, boundary conditions, or validation.
The overall goal is to discuss creative steps toward a fuller
exploitation of the rich observational data resources to enable better
forecasts on scales from global to local.
It is the intention of the conveners to include an open forum for
discussion of this topic during the course of this session and/or
through an ice breaker for data managers and modelers.
Conveners:
Ronald L. S. Weaver
University of Colorado
E-mail: weaverr [at] nsidc.colorado.edu
Scott A. True
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
E-mail: scott.a.true [at] nga.mil