SGER: Collaborative Research: Creating a Climate Math Web Portal

SGER：合作研究：创建气候数学门户网站

• 批准号: 0839912
• 负责人: Christopher Jones
• 金额: $ 2.8万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-15 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0839912&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; Collaborative; Research; Creating; Climate

This project will develop a Climate Math Web Portal housed on the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) web pages. The web portal is an important component of a long-term initiative to facilitate high-level collaboration between mathematicians and climate scientists to solve some of the deeply mathematical problems in climate change research. The specific objectives of the proposed web portal are three-fold: 1. Introduce some of the mathematical challenges and opportunities in climate change research to the broadest mathematical audience possible. 2. Introduce the language, mathematics and central results of climate change research in a way that is designed to jump-start the learning of an active mathematics audience. 3. Share resources for education in Climate Math at levels ranging from graduate training to introductory undergraduate courses. An interdisciplinary Advisory Board will be established to oversee development of the web portal, and experts will be invited to write expository introductions and annotated bibliographies for simple climate and process models. Matlab code will be posted for simple models. The portal will also introduce and provide access to archives of IPCC model output and other data, and will collect educational materials ranging from recommended reading lists for graduate seminars to worksheets based on climate data for introductory undergraduate classes. Global warming, and the associated changes in extreme weather patterns, sea level, fresh water supply and habitat ranges raise urgent policy questions from the local to international levels. Answers to these questions depend on impact predictions of climate models for the particular region in question, over the next 50-100 years. But there are critical stumbling blocks in climate modeling, of a deeply mathematical nature, that currently prevent climate scientists from making impact predictions at the level of accuracy required to inform policy decisions. Development of the web portal will provide an infrastructure that helps to bring the full power of mathematics to research at the interface of mathematics and climate science, to address some of the most pressing questions facing climate modeling, and hence society.

该项目将在工业与应用数学学会（SIAM）的网页上开发一个气候数学门户网站。该门户网站是一项长期倡议的重要组成部分，该倡议旨在促进数学家和气候科学家之间的高级别合作，以解决气候变化研究中一些深刻的数学问题。拟议门户网站的具体目标有三个方面：1.向尽可能广泛的数学受众介绍气候变化研究中的一些数学挑战和机遇。2.介绍语言，数学和气候变化研究的主要成果，旨在启动积极的数学观众的学习。3.在从研究生培训到本科入门课程的各个层面上共享气候数学教育资源。将设立一个跨学科咨询委员会，监督门户网站的开发，并将邀请专家为简单的气候和过程模型编写简要介绍和附加说明的书目。Matlab代码将发布简单的模型。该门户还将介绍和提供访问IPCC模型输出和其他数据的档案，并将收集教育材料，从研究生研讨会的推荐阅读清单到基于气候数据的入门本科课程。全球变暖以及与此相关的极端天气模式、海平面、淡水供应和生境范围的变化，从地方到国际各级都提出了紧迫的政策问题。这些问题的答案取决于气候模型对特定地区未来50-100年的影响预测。但是，气候建模中存在着严重的数学障碍，目前阻碍了气候科学家做出政策决策所需的准确度水平的影响预测。门户网站的开发将提供一个基础设施，有助于在数学和气候科学的界面上将数学的全部力量用于研究，以解决气候建模和社会面临的一些最紧迫的问题。