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办为期两周的研讨会。 该研讨会以卡尔-古斯塔夫·罗斯比（Carl-Gustaf Rossby）的名字命名，他是大气科学的早期先驱，也是该大学的系主任。 该活动预计将吸引 30 至 40 名研究生和早期职业科学家，他们将参加一系列讲座并以小组形式参与黑客马拉松式的研究项目。与往年一样，该研讨会由大学的研究生和博士后组织和举办，芝加哥教师的投入极少。今年 Rossbypalooza 的主题是气候与极端事件之间的关系，其动机是炎热的频率和严重程度的增加地球气候变暖带来的海浪、暴雨、野火和其他极端事件。 该研讨会解决了研究人员在试图了解和量化气候变化对极端事件的影响时面临的多重挑战。一项挑战是准确量化气候变化对极端事件的影响，因为根据定义，极端事件是罕见的，因此样本不足。 该研讨会还讨论了气候与极端事件联系的理论基础，并考虑了机器学习等新兴技术的应用，以理解和预测气候引起的极端事件的变化。这里提供的资金支持通过竞争过程选出的 25 名参与者的旅行。 该奖项还包括所有参与者的早餐和午餐以及四位演讲嘉宾的旅行支持。 研讨会的主题具有社会和科学意义，因为人们对极端天气对全球温度的依赖性知之甚少，而且对于适应气候变化的努力也很重要。 这项工作还通过努力培训下一代气候科学家而产生更广泛的影响。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。