Workshop: Climate over Landscapes; Boulder, Colorado; September 19-21, 2007

研讨会：气候与景观；

• 批准号: 0738151
• 负责人: Ronald Martin
• 金额: $ 7.36万
• 依托单位: University Corporation For Atmospheric Res
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-08-01 至 2008-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0738151&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Climate; over; Landscapes; Boulder

This collaborative proposal between UCAR/JOSS, Joe Galewsky (University of New Mexico) and Gerard Roe (University of Washington) is a request to the National Science Foundation to fund a topical workshop entitled Climate over Landscapes at the University of Colorado, September, 19-21, 2007.Some of the most significant advances in geoscience research over the last 20 years have come about through understanding the coupling of processes operating in the atmosphere (climate), on the Earth's surface (geomorphology), and within the Earth's crust (tectonics). Through this integration, the community is essentially rewriting the paradigm for understanding how mountain ranges come and go, how landscapes evolve and respond to both external and internal forcings, and how climate and the land surface co-evolve. The scope of the new paradigm spans many orders of temporal and spatial scale, from natural hazards (e.g., landslides) all the way through to mantle convection.Of all the couplings that are found to be important, few are as fundamental as that between surface and atmospheric processes - between geomorphology and climate. Recent advances put us in a position to forge serious links between the atmospheric communities and the earth-surface community: a) landscapes are being revealed to us at an unprecedented level of detail, largely though remote sensing techniques; b) advances in low-temperature geochronology and cosmogenic radionuclides allow for more confident dating of specific events and rates of processes; c) the theoretical development of physically-based geomorphic transport laws; d) computational advances permit mesoscale modeling of atmospheric processes on scales relevant to landscapes; and e) remote sensing of climate and vegetation affords unprecedented spatial and temporal observations. We are now able to know how the landscape is shaped, how fast it is shaped, and what the landscape really looks like.The proposed workshop is about connecting these advances. Engaging the atmospheric sciences and landscape communities is critical if full advantage is to be taken of the possibilities available. Landscape dynamics can be seen as an archetypal case study of Earth System Science, spanning as it does, processes ranging from the crust deformation to cloud microphysics. The individual pieces are clearly in place. The challenge is in coming together as a community to figure out how to combine them as effectively as possible.Goals:-1. To engage the atmospheric science and landscape dynamics communities in a conversation about effective joint research directions and possible collaborations.2. For the landscape dynamics community: to get better acquainted with what can be known about relevant atmospheric processes, and to address how that knowledge might be incorporated into landscape dynamics research.3. For the atmospheric sciences community: to learn about the novel and exciting research opportunities in studying landscape dynamics; to challenge and extend existing understanding of climate by asking new questions from different perspectives.4. Generate a white paper for both the community at large and for the NSF, the purpose of which is to provide a state-of-the-art report and a research agenda, to be written by a smaller sub-set of the workshop participants. In order that the white paper is inclusive and as open as possible, we will circulate drafts to the community for comments, suggestions, etc.Broader Impacts:-Educational. 15 to 20 graduate students will be invited to the workshop. Their participation in charting a course for research for the future will be illuminating for them and will help ensure that the ideas raised have a long-term influence.Intellectual. Interdisciplinary collaboration is the future of Earth Sciences, and understanding landscape dynamics is one of the great challenges of the whole field. Historically progress has been impeded by traditional disciplinary boundaries. This workshop is an opportunity to establish a lasting legacy of greater communication.

UCAR/JOSS、Joe Galewsky和（新墨西哥州大学）和杰拉德·罗伊（华盛顿大学）是向国家科学基金会提出的一项请求，要求资助在科罗拉多大学举行的题为气候超过景观的专题研讨会，9月19日至21日，在过去的20年里，地球科学研究中一些最重要的进展是通过理解地球内部运行过程的耦合来实现的。大气（气候）、地球表面（地貌）和地壳内部（构造）。通过这种整合，该社区基本上重写了理解山脉如何来来去去的范式，景观如何演变并对外部和内部强迫做出反应，以及气候和地表如何共同演变。新范式的范围跨越了时间和空间尺度的许多顺序，从自然灾害（例如，在所有被发现的重要耦合中，很少有像地表和大气过程之间--地貌和气候之间--那样基础的。最近的进展使我们能够在大气层群落和地球表面群落之间建立认真的联系：（a）主要是通过遥感技术，以前所未有的详细程度向我们揭示地貌;（B）低温地质年代学和宇宙成因放射性核素的进展使我们能够更有把握地确定具体事件的年代和进程的速度;（c）物理地貌迁移规律的理论发展;（d）计算技术的进步使得能够在与景观有关的尺度上对大气过程进行中尺度模拟;（e）气候和植被遥感提供了前所未有的空间和时间观测。我们现在能够知道景观是如何形成的，形成的速度有多快，以及景观到底是什么样子。拟议的研讨会是关于连接这些进步。如果要充分利用现有的可能性，就必须让大气科学和景观界参与进来。景观动力学可以被看作是地球系统科学的一个典型案例研究，它跨越了从地壳变形到云微物理的过程。各个部分显然已经到位。我们面临的挑战是作为一个社区走到一起，找出如何尽可能有效地将它们联合收割机结合起来。让大气科学和景观动力学社区参与关于有效的联合研究方向和可能的合作的对话。对于景观动力学社区：更好地了解有关大气过程的知识，并解决如何将这些知识纳入景观动力学研究的问题。对于大气科学界：了解景观动力学研究中新颖而令人兴奋的研究机会;通过从不同角度提出新问题来挑战和扩展对气候的现有理解。为整个社区和NSF生成一份白色文件，其目的是提供最先进的报告和研究议程，由研讨会参与者的较小子集撰写。为了使白色文件具有包容性和尽可能的开放性，我们将向社会分发草案，征求意见、建议等。更广泛的影响：-教育。将邀请15至20名研究生参加讲习班。他们参与规划未来的研究方向将对他们有所启发，并将有助于确保提出的想法产生长期影响。跨学科合作是地球科学的未来，了解景观动态是整个领域的巨大挑战之一。历史上，传统的学科界限阻碍了进步。这次研讨会是一个机会，建立一个持久的遗产，更大的沟通。