"Rossbypalooza", A Student-led Workshop at the Interface of Climate Dynamics and Statistics; Chicago, Illinois; July 25-29, 2016

气候科学在历史上是通过观测、理论和实验/模型的相互交织而取得进展的。在观察到的数据中发现现象，然后进行仔细和深思熟虑的分析，从而提出导致这些现象的机制，然后通过实验对其进行测试。反过来，对观测数据的分析必须以理论为指导。现代气候观测数量和可获得性的爆炸式增长为加强我们对地球气候的认识提供了前所未有的机会。只有当我们为年轻科学家提供处理和解释这些数据的工具包：气候动力学的理论框架和统计学对各种气候数据的应用，这种潜力才会实现。这个项目将举办一个为期一周的研讨会，学生们将在研讨会上讲授气候科学和统计技术，并以小组形式研究他们自己选择的问题。它将为30名研究生水平的科学家提供分析和理解气候数据所需的多学科培训。该研讨会将于2016年7月25日至29日在芝加哥大学地球物理科学系举行，从气候动力学和统计学的教师中汲取优势。主题将包括极端气候，喷射变率，大规模运输和混合，季风，湍流和地理空间时间序列分析。这是一个试点项目，有可能在今后几年成为年度或两年一次的会议。

Climate science has historically progressed through the interweaving of observation, theory, and experiments/modeling. The discovery of phenomena in observed data, followed by careful and thoughtful analysis, leads to the proposal of mechanisms responsible for these phenomena, which are then tested through experimentation. In turn, the analysis of the observed data must be guided by theory. The modern explosion in the quantity and accessibility of observations of climate represents an unprecedented opportunity for enhancing our understanding of the Earth's climate. This potential will only be realized if we equip young scientists with the toolkits to both process and explain this data: theoretical framework of climate dynamics and application of statistics to various climate data.This project is to hold a weeklong workshop in which students will lectures on both climate science and statistical techniques, and work in small groups on research problems of their own choosing. It will provide a group of thirty graduate-level scientists with multi-disciplinary training necessary to analyze and understand climate data. The workshop will be held from July 25-29, 2016 in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago, drawing from the strengths of faculty in Climate Dynamics as well as Statistics. Topics covered will include climate extremes, jet variability, large-scale transport and mixing, monsoons, turbulence, and geospatial time series analysis. This is a pilot program that has a potential to becoming an annual or biennial meeting in the subsequent years.