Climate Thermodynamics 2010

University of Reading
Department of Meteorology
21/22 April 2010

We are likely organizing a similar workshop in 2011. Please send me an email with any ideas you might have.

We have now added links to the presentations for those who could not attend.

There appears to be an increasing interest in global properties of the climate, properties that have their origin in global constraints on the workings of the climate engine. Some key words that spring to mind are meridional heat and moisture transports, radiation budgets, entropy production, availability production, thermodynamic efficiency. Perhaps, the heading "climate thermodynamics" captures those ideas. This workshop is to identify what activity there is in the UK and increase our effort in this area.

The workshop

As this is the first workshop of its kind we aim to keep the format flexible. In the first instance we invite half hour presentations or posters. We are happy to accommodate shorter presentations, or longer ones. Do contact me about it. Of course, you are most welcome to attend without presenting work. "Overview" talks or "Work-in-progress" talks are welcome.

The workshop runs from Wed noon to Thu noon. In case of a larger than expected number of presenting attendees, we will extend the meeting into the afternoon on Thursday and/or we may need to cut presentations to 20 or 15 minutes - we will notify you of any changes.

Practical information is at the end of this low-tech webpage

Registration

We would appreciate it if you could indicate whether you will be attending in order to get the coffee and cookie count correct. If you intend to present something then you must register beforehand.

To register, send me an email including any requests for presentations or poster space. I am happy with a "TBA" response in case you haven't thought about a presentation yet. As before, you are most welcome to attend without presenting anything.

We do not have external funds to run this workshop so you will have to cover any travel and accommodation costs yourself.

Programme

We have now added links to the talks for those who could not attend. Please click on the talk titles for the associated files.

Confirmed attendees

Practical information

Further