SGER: Collaborative Proposal: Creating a Climate Math Web Portal

SGER：协作提案：创建气候数学门户网站

• 批准号: 0839890
• 负责人: Mary Lou Zeeman
• 金额: $ 17.2万
• 依托单位: Bowdoin College
• 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 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0839890&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; Collaborative; Proposal; 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，旨在促进数学家和气候科学家之间的高层合作，以解决气候变化研究中的一些深奥的数学问题。拟议的门户网站的具体目标有三个方面：1。向尽可能广泛的数学听众介绍气候变化研究中的一些数学挑战和机遇。介绍语言，数学和气候变化研究的核心成果，旨在启动一个积极的数学听众的学习。共享气候数学教育资源，从研究生培训到本科入门课程。将建立一个跨学科咨询委员会来监督门户网站的开发，并邀请专家为简单的气候和过程模型编写说明性介绍和注释书目。Matlab代码将张贴简单的模型。该门户还将介绍并提供对IPCC模式输出和其他数据档案的访问，并将收集从研究生研讨会推荐阅读清单到本科入门课程基于气候数据的工作表等教育材料。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，引发了从地方到国际层面的紧迫政策问题。这些问题的答案取决于气候模型对有关地区未来50-100年的影响预测。但是，在气候建模中存在着一些关键的障碍，这些障碍具有很强的数学性质，目前阻碍了气候科学家做出准确的影响预测，从而无法为政策决策提供信息。门户网站的开发将提供一个基础设施，帮助将数学的全部力量用于数学和气候科学的接口研究，以解决气候建模和社会面临的一些最紧迫的问题。