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What's Happening on Thursday, 13 January
Please see the Programs and Events page for a complete listing.
The Ed Lorenz Symposium Thursday, 13 January, 8:30 A.M.–5:30 P.M.; Room 5B
The Ed Lorenz Symposium, a one-day symposium honoring his career, will concentrate on his early work centered on the general circulation of the atmosphere and, in particular, the atmospheric energy cycle. He also investigated the theoretical merits of alternative systems of forecasting (developing empirical orthogonal functions and singular vectors in the context of the atmospheric prediction problem), and for this purpose developed simple systems of equations whose solutions exhibited much of the irregularity found in the atmosphere. Systems of this sort have subsequently been called chaotic. Ed Lorenz continues to make contributions to atmospheric science, and his present work is divided between investigations of the extent to which weather prediction is possible (including data assimilation, targeted observations, ensemble construction, and quantifying the impact of model error) and studies of the properties of simple chaotic systems.
The Lorenz Symposium will end with a banquet on Thursday evening. All are invited to attend. The Lorenz banquet ticket is not included in the conference registration package; tickets will be available for purchase for $45 until 12:00 P.M. on Tuesday, 11 January.
For additional information please contact the program chairperson: Jim Hansen, MIT (tel: 617-452- 3382; fax: 617-253-8298; e-mail: jhansen@mit.edu).
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Bernhard Haurwitz Memorial Lecture Thursday, 13 January, 8:45–9:45 A.M.; Room 3
This lecture will be held in a session sponsored by the Eighth Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography. The lecture will be given by Peter B. Rhines, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, and it is entitled Subpolar Climate Dynamics.
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Town Hall Meeting: AMS Support for the Weather and Climate Enterprise Thursday, 13 January, 12:15–1:30 P.M.; Room 5A
The AMS Ad Hoc Committee on the Weather and Climate Enterprise (with support from the AMS Private Sector Board) will review the activities over the past year that represent new initiatives in response to Recommendation 3 of the National Academies’ 2003 “Fair Weather” report. Results from the Webcast on NOAA’s proposed policy on partnerships and from the First Community Summit, which discussed steps toward a North American mesonet, will be presented, as well as plans for future activities intended to support the enterprise.
For additional information, please contact John T. Snow, University of Oklahoma, Sarkeys Energy Center, Suite 710, 100 East Boyd Street, Norman, OK 73019-0628 (tel: 405-325-3101; fax: 405-325-3148; email: JSnow@OU.edu)
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