Rossbypalooza 2024: A Student-led Summer School on Climate and Extreme Events Conference; Chicago, Illinois; July 22-August 2, 2024

Rossbypalooza 2024：学生主导的气候和极端事件暑期学校会议；

• 批准号: 2406927
• 负责人: Noboru Nakamura
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-07-01 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2406927&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Rossbypalooza; 2024; Student; led; Summer

This award supports a two-week workshop to be held in summer 2024 in the Geophysical Sciences Department at the University of Chicago. The workshop is named in honor of Carl-Gustaf Rossby, an early pioneer of atmospheric science and department chair at the university. The event is expected to draw a group of 30 to 40 graduate students and early-career scientists who will attend a series of lectures and participate in hackathon-style research projects performed in small groups. As in previous years the workshop is organized and run by graduate students and postdocs at the university with minimal input by Chicago faculty.The theme of this year's Rossbypalooza is the relationship between climate and extreme events, motivated by increases in the frequency and severity of heat waves, torrential rain, wildfires, and other extreme events brought on by the warming of Earth's climate. The workshop addresses multiple challenges faced by researchers attempting to understand and quantify the impact of climate change on extreme events. One challenge is to accurately quantify the effect of climate change on extreme events given that extreme events are, by definition, rare and thus undersampled. The workshop also addresses the theoretical basis for climate-extreme event connections and considers the application of emerging techniques such as machine learning for understanding and anticipating climate-induced extreme event change.Funds provided here support travel for 25 participants selected through a competitive process. The award also covers breakfast and lunch for all participants along with travel support for four guest speakers. The topic of the workshop is of both societal and scientific interest as the dependence of weather extremes on global temperature is poorly understood scientifically and also important for efforts to adapt to climate change. The work also has broader impacts through its effort to train the next generation of climate scientists.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项支持将于2024年夏季在芝加哥大学地球物理科学系举行的为期两周的研讨会。 该研讨会以纪念大气科学的早期先驱，大学主席的早期先驱而命名。 预计该活动将吸引一组30至40名研究生和职业生涯的科学家，他们将参加一系列的讲座，并参加小组进行的Hackathon风格的研究项目。 As in previous years the workshop is organized and run by graduate students and postdocs at the university with minimal input by Chicago faculty.The theme of this year's Rossbypalooza is the relationship between climate and extreme events, motivated by increases in the frequency and severity of heat waves, torrential rain, wildfires, and other extreme events brought on by the warming of Earth's climate. 该研讨会解决了试图理解和量化气候变化对极端事件的影响的研究人员面临的多个挑战。一个挑战是准确量化气候变化对极端事件的影响，因为从定义上讲极端事件是罕见的，因此被采样不足。 该研讨会还解决了气候 - 极端事件连接的理论基础，并考虑了机器学习等新兴技术的应用，以理解和预期气候引起的极端事件变化。此处提供的资金支持通过竞争过程选择的25名参与者提供支持旅行。 该奖项还涵盖了所有参与者的早餐和午餐，以及为四位嘉宾的旅行支持。 研讨会的主题既具有社会和科学利益，因为极端天气对全球温度的依赖性很少，对适应气候变化的努力也很重要。 这项工作还通过培训下一代气候科学家的努力产生了更大的影响。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响标准，被认为值得通过评估来获得支持。