Rossbypalooza 2024: A Student-led Summer School on Climate and Extreme Events Conference; Chicago, Illinois; July 22-August 2, 2024

该奖项支持将于2024年夏季在芝加哥大学地球物理科学系举行的为期两周的研讨会。这个研讨会是以卡尔-古斯塔夫·罗斯比的名字命名的，他是大气科学的早期先驱，也是该大学的系主任。该活动预计将吸引30至40名研究生和早期职业科学家参加，他们将参加一系列讲座，并以小组形式参加黑客马拉松式的研究项目。和前几年一样，研讨会由芝加哥大学的研究生和博士后组织和管理，芝加哥大学的教职员工极少参与。今年Rossbypalooza的主题是气候与极端事件之间的关系，受到热浪、暴雨、野火和其他由地球气候变暖引起的极端事件的频率和严重程度的增加的推动。该研讨会讨论了试图理解和量化气候变化对极端事件影响的研究人员所面临的多重挑战。一个挑战是准确量化气候变化对极端事件的影响，因为极端事件根据定义是罕见的，因此样本不足。研讨会还讨论了气候极端事件联系的理论基础，并考虑了机器学习等新兴技术在理解和预测气候引起的极端事件变化方面的应用。这里提供的资金用于通过竞争程序选出的25名参与者的旅费。该奖项还包括所有参与者的早餐和午餐，以及四位演讲嘉宾的旅行支持。由于极端天气对全球温度的依赖性在科学上知之甚少，而且对适应气候变化的努力也很重要，因此研讨会的主题既具有社会意义，也具有科学意义。这项工作还通过培养下一代气候科学家的努力产生了更广泛的影响。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports a two-week workshop to be held in summer 2024 in the Geophysical Sciences Department at the University of Chicago. The workshop is named in honor of Carl-Gustaf Rossby, an early pioneer of atmospheric science and department chair at the university. The event is expected to draw a group of 30 to 40 graduate students and early-career scientists who will attend a series of lectures and participate in hackathon-style research projects performed in small groups. As in previous years the workshop is organized and run by graduate students and postdocs at the university with minimal input by Chicago faculty.The theme of this year's Rossbypalooza is the relationship between climate and extreme events, motivated by increases in the frequency and severity of heat waves, torrential rain, wildfires, and other extreme events brought on by the warming of Earth's climate. The workshop addresses multiple challenges faced by researchers attempting to understand and quantify the impact of climate change on extreme events. One challenge is to accurately quantify the effect of climate change on extreme events given that extreme events are, by definition, rare and thus undersampled. The workshop also addresses the theoretical basis for climate-extreme event connections and considers the application of emerging techniques such as machine learning for understanding and anticipating climate-induced extreme event change.Funds provided here support travel for 25 participants selected through a competitive process. The award also covers breakfast and lunch for all participants along with travel support for four guest speakers. The topic of the workshop is of both societal and scientific interest as the dependence of weather extremes on global temperature is poorly understood scientifically and also important for efforts to adapt to climate change. The work also has broader impacts through its effort to train the next generation of climate scientists.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.