Call for Papers
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2005 Fall Meeting
Session IN 15 - Multidisciplinary Global Modeling: The Really Big Picture
5-9 December 2005
San Francisco, California
Abstract Submission Deadline: Thursday, 8 September 2005
Further session information can be obtained by contacting any of the
conveners listed below or by clicking http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm05/?pageRequest=search&show=detail&sessid…
The AGU Fall Meeting from 5-9 December 2005 in San Francisco will
consider how to better utilize data in earth science models during the
following session:
Session IN 15: Multidisciplinary Global Modeling - The Really Big
Picture
Brief Abstract of the Session:
How did weather forecasters achieve a leap in forecasting ocean winds?
What spurred dramatically improved models of Earth's gravity field?
Answer: These breakthroughs came from successful collaborations between
providers of scatterometry and radar altimetry data with modelers in
those fields. Come to a session focusing on bridging the gap between
geophysical data providers and modelers and help generate the next
breakthrough.
Geophysicists today that are modeling Earth properties and processes are
enabled with a rapidly expanding collection of measurements;
increasingly powerful, affordable, and accessible computational
resources; and increasingly robust data analysis, modeling, and
assimilation techniques. These geophysicists are also challenged by the
same factors. Measurements of Earth are archived in many formats on many
different information systems with widely varying accessibility; have
processing histories that range from extremely detailed to non-existent;
and are often not well known to the larger Earth sciences community.
Computational power opens the door to more complex data analysis,
modeling, and assimilation but this often forces scientists to expand
beyond the traditional boundaries of their particular disciplines to
fully exploit the available data. Finally, the innovations in data
analysis, modeling, and assimilation are occurring so rapidly that it is
difficult to keep pace with a single discipline, let alone multiple
disciplines. This session is intended to facilitate the exchange of
ideas between providers of geophysical data products and modelers of
geophysical processes to increase the overall capacity of the
geosciences community. The session may also bridge some of the gaps
between the geophysical disciplines. Together, we can take some creative
steps toward a fuller exploitation of the rich geophysical data
resources of today to enable better forecasts of tomorrow for the
benefit of all the Earth's inhabitants.
We expect the following questions to be addressed in this session:
From the perspective of model techniques development:
What modeling technologies and techniques have potential application
across multiple disciplines? What are the limitations of current
modeling technologies and techniques that constrain or prevent
multidisciplinary modeling? What can be done to overcome these
limitations? What might the science communities do to promote
multidisciplinary global models of geophysical processes?
From the perspective of data utilization in models:
What are the current and future barriers to the use of observational
data in modeling? What tools are needed to translate and integrate
observational data for assimilation, boundary conditions, or validation?
How can data managers address data quality issues in an optimal way for
modelers? How do modelers find out about data and data products? Are
there more efficient mechanisms possible? What are the key elements that
data centers need to know about data assimilation?
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.
If you have questions about this session, please contact any one of the
conveners for further information.
Conveners:
Scott A. True, WGS R&D, Basic and Applied Research Office, National
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
E-mail: scott.a.true [at] nga.mil
Bill Collins, CCSM,SSC, National Center for Atmospheric Research
E-mail: wcollins [at] ucar.edu
Ronald J Birk, NASA, Applied Science, SMD
E-mail: ronald.j.birk [at] nasa.gov
Nettie Labelle-Hamer, Alaska Satellite Facility, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
E-mail: nettie [at] asf.alaska.edu
Walter N. Meier, NSIDC-CIRES, University of Colorado
E-mail: walt [at] nsidc.org
Ronald L.S. Weaver, NSIDC-CIRES, University of Colorado
E-mail: ronald.weaver [at] colorado.edu