Paleoclimate Dynamics Summer School; Valle d'Aosta, Italy; June 16-25, 2003

该奖项资助大约10名美国讲师和学生参加2003年6月16日至25日在圣奥尼安会议中心举行的Grand Combin暑期学校的旅行。St.Oyen是一个位于格兰圣贝纳多河谷上游海拔约1300米的小村庄，距离意大利奥斯塔25公里。意大利-法国“地球物理和环境流体力学基本问题”暑期班每年由ISAC-CNR(都灵)科学研究所和巴黎诺马尔高等学院气象动力学实验室组织。2003年课程的主题是“古气候：观测和动力学的结合”，由Alain Colin de Verdiere博士(大学)指导。De Brest教授(法国)、Daniel Schrag教授(美国哈佛大学)和Eli Tziperman教授(以色列魏兹曼研究所)。信息网站是http://www.icg.to.infn.it/grandcombin/index.html.The，会议的目标是将具有古气候数据和古气候理论和数学模型专业知识的讲师聚集在一起。学生们将接触到用于研究古气候代理记录的方法的基础知识，以及用于解释这些观测结果的理论。讲座的主题将从海洋、大气和非线性动力学的应用，到古气候学，再到在更长时间尺度上控制气候的基础地球化学。指导和讨论的范围将包括从几年(冰期期间的厄尔尼诺/南方涛动(ENSO))到几千年(丹斯加德/奥施格振荡和海因里希事件)到冰川和间冰期时间尺度上的气候变化现象。

This award provides funds to support travel for approximately ten US lecturers and students to attend the Grand Combin Summer School from June 16-25, 2003 at the Conference Center of St. Oyen, a small village at about 1,300 meters above sea-level in the upper Gran San Bernardo valley, 25 kilometers from Aosta, Italy. The Italian-French summer school on "Fundamental Problems in Geophysical and Environmental Fluid Mechanics" is organized each year by the Istituto di Scienze dell'Atmosfera e del Clima (ISAC) - CNR (Torino) and by the Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique, Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris). The theme of the course in 2003 is "Paleoclimate: Combining Observations and Dynamics" and is directed by Dr. Alain Colin de Verdiere (Univ. de Brest, France), Prof. Daniel Schrag (Harvard Univ., USA), and Prof. Eli Tziperman (Weizmann Institute, Israel). The website for information is http://www.icg.to.infn.it/grandcombin/index.html.The objective of the conference is to bring together lecturers with expertise in both paleoclimate data and paleoclimate theories and mathematical models. The students will be exposed to the basics of methodologies used to study paleoclimate proxy records, as well as the theories that are used to explain these observations. The lecture topics will range from applications of ocean, atmosphere, and nonlinear dynamics to paleoclimatology to the basic geochemistry that controls climate on longer time scales. The scope of the instruction and discussion will include climate variability phenomena on time scales from a few years (El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) during the glacial periods) to a few thousands of years (Dansgaard/ Oeschger oscillations and Heinrich events) to glacial and interglacial timescales.