SGER: Collaborative Research: Creating a Climate Math Web Portal

该项目将在工业和应用数学学会(SIAM)的网页上开发一个气候数学网络门户网站。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的一些深刻的数学问题。拟议的门户网站的具体目标有三个：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会。2.介绍语言、数学和气候变化研究的核心成果，以一种旨在启动活跃的数学受众学习的方式。3.共享从研究生培训到本科入门课程的气候数学教育资源。将设立一个跨学科咨询委员会，以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说明性介绍和带注释的参考书目。简单模型的MatLab代码将会发布。该门户还将介绍和提供气专委模式产出和其他数据的档案，并将收集各种教育材料，从研究生研讨会的建议阅读清单到本科生入门课程的基于气候数据的工作表。全球变暖以及与之相关的极端天气模式、海平面、淡水供应和栖息地范围的变化，从地方到国际都提出了紧迫的政策问题。这些问题的答案取决于对所涉特定地区未来50-100年气候模型的影响预测。但是，在气候建模方面存在着严重的数学障碍，目前气候科学家无法做出准确到为政策决策提供信息所需的影响预测。门户网站的开发将提供一个基础设施，帮助在数学和气候科学的界面上充分利用数学的力量进行研究，以解决气候建模和社会面临的一些最紧迫的问题。

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.