Workshop on Advances in Tropical Dynamics; Honolulu, Hawaii; January 14-15, 2014

该奖项为将于2014年1月14日至15日在夏威夷大学东西方中心（EWC）举行的Madden-Julian振荡（MJO）研讨会提供支持。 MJO是从印度洋传播到太平洋的有组织对流的包络，构成了热带地区季节内降水和大气环流变率的主要形式。MJO影响各种热带天气和气候现象，包括热带气旋（影响墨西哥湾的飓风），亚洲，澳大利亚，非洲和美洲季风和降雨的开始和季节内波动，以及厄尔尼诺事件的开始。 该研讨会的目标是汇集从事MJO研究的研究人员社区，总结在理解MJO动态方面的进展和剩余挑战，并为未来协调的数值模拟实验制定计划。 更具体地说，研讨会的参与者将1）讨论和综合最近的理论，建模和诊断与热带动力学的突破; 2）调查剩余的挑战和障碍，以提高我们对热带动力学的理解，并讨论社区应对这些挑战的最佳途径;和3）更新正在进行的MJO aquaplanet相互比较工作的状态。 研讨会的预期成果之一是发表一份总结研讨会情况并“突出进展和未来挑战”的文件。EWC被选为研讨会的举办地，因为预计约有一半的研讨会参与者将来自亚洲。通过该奖项提供的资金将支持约10名研究生和5名博士后的旅行，这些研究生和博士后将通过公开竞争选出。 因此，该奖项将使科学家在其职业生涯的最早阶段，以满足和互动与MJO研究人员的世界各地的社区，并使他们能够看到前沿的成果和研究观点，这可能是不提供给他们在家里。 除了与促进国际合作和支持早期职业科学家相关的更广泛的科学影响外，这项工作还具有社会价值，因为它将促进对MJO的理解，这一现象在世界各地具有多重社会影响。

This award provides support for a workshop on the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) to be held January 14-15 2014 at the East-West Center (EWC) at the University of Hawaii. The MJO is an envelope of organized convection that propagates from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and constitutes the dominant form of intraseasonal precipitation and atmospheric circulation variability in the tropics. The MJO influences a variety of tropical weather and climate phenomena,including tropical cyclones (affecting hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico), the onset and intraseasonal fluctuations of the monsoons and rainfall over Asia, Australia, Africa, and the Americas, and the onset of El Nino events. The goal of the workshop is to bring together the community of researchers engaged in MJO research to summarize the progress and remaining challenges in understanding the dynamics of the MJO, and to make plans for future coordinated numerical simulation experiments. More specifically, workshop participants will 1) discuss and synthesize recent theoretical, modeling, and diagnostic breakthroughs related to tropical dynamics; 2) survey remaining challenges and roadblocks to improving our understanding of tropical dynamics, and discuss the optimal paths forward for the community to address such challenges; and 3) update the status of the ongoing MJO aquaplanet intercomparison effort. A published paper summarizing the the workshop and "highlighting progress and future challenges" is an expected outcome of the workshop. The EWC is chosen as the venue for the workshop due to the expectation that about half of the workshop participants will come from Asia.The funds provided through this award will support travel for about 10 graduate students and 5 postdocs, to be chosen through an open competition. Thus, this award will enable scientists at the earliest stages of their careers to meet and interact with the worldwide community of MJO researchers, and enable them to see cutting-edge results and research perspectives which may not be available to them at home. Aside from the scientific broader impacts associated with promoting international collaboration and supporting early-career scientists, the work has societal value in that it will advance understanding of the MJO, a phenomenon which has multiple societal impacts around the world.