Workshop on Tropical Climate Variability Beyond the Historic Record

该奖项帮助支持2003年夏季在南加州大学举行的题为“超越历史记录的热带气候变异性”的会议。具体地说，该奖项为大约20名具有陆地和海洋气候方面专业知识的科学家提供旅行支持，参加有关厄尔尼诺/南方涛动(ENSO)现象的最新科学研究报告和讨论，这些报告和讨论综合了现代、全新世早期和最后一次冰川记录。会议的目标是将国际公认的气候学家、模型师、地球化学家、古海洋学家和古气候学家聚集在一起，分享关于热带气候和ENSO的最新想法。与会者包括经验丰富的研究人员、新的调查人员和学生，他们将制作和分发一份文件，综合和总结会议的议事过程和发现，供更广泛的科学界审查。通过这种方式，将能够就这一重要议题进行公开和生动的意见交流。

This award helps support a conference entitled, "Tropical Climate Variability Beyond the Historic Record" at the University of Southern California in the summer of 2003.Specifically, the award provides travel support for approximately twenty scientists with expertise in terrestrial and marine aspects of climate to participate in presentations and discussions that synthesize the latest scientific research on modern-day, early Holocene, and last glacial records of the El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon. The goal of the conference is to bring together an internationally recognized group of climatologists, modelers, geochemists, paleoceanographers, and paleoclimatologists to share the latest ideas on tropical climates and ENSO. The participants, which include seasoned researchers, new investigators, and students, will produce and distribute a document synthesizing and summarizing the conference proceedings and findings for examination by the wider scientific community. In this manner, an open and lively exchange of views on this important topic will be enabled.