Workshop: Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project on Coupled Simulations; Estes Park, Colorado; September 14-19, 2008

该奖项有助于支持一个研讨会，讨论古气候建模相互比较项目（PMIP）对政府间气候变化专门委员会（IPCC）第五次评估（AR5）的潜在贡献。研讨会的一个可能成果是为有助于减少未来气候预测的不确定性的模型模拟和数据综合确定关键的气候目标。计划中的研讨会讨论将集中在地球系统模型的演变，气候变率和突变，以及如何发展适当的方法，以减少气候project.Specifically的不确定性，研究人员要求从美国国家科学基金会的资金，以帮助提供部分参与者支持约60名科学家参加研讨会在埃斯特公园，科罗拉多从2008年9月14日至19日。 研讨会的参与者将拥有古气候学和气候研究相关方面的专业知识，并将讨论可能向世界气候研究计划（WCRP）提出的过去关键时间段的具体模拟的利弊，以便纳入由IPCC AR5国际模拟小组完成的拟议模拟套件。参与者将包括经验丰富的研究人员，新的调查人员和学生。 通过这种方式，将能够就古气候建模的科学和概念进行公开和生动的意见交流。

This award helps support a workshop to discuss the potential contributions of the Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP) to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment (AR5). A possible outcome of this workshop is the identification of key climate targets for model simulations and data synthesis that can help reduce uncertainties in future climate projections. The planned workshop discussions will focus on the evolution of Earth System modeling, climate variability and abrupt changes, and how to develop appropriate methodologies to reduce uncertainties in climate projection.Specifically, the researcher requests funds from the NSF to help provide partial participant support for approximately sixty scientists to attend a workshop in Estes Park, Colorado from September 14-19, 2008. Participants at the workshop will have expertise in paleoclimatology and related aspects of climate research and will discuss the pros and cons of specific simulations of key past time periods that could be proposed to the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) for inclusion in a proposed suite of simulations to be done by international modeling groups for the IPCC AR5. The participants will include seasoned researchers, new investigators, and students. In this manner, an open and lively exchange of views on the science and the concept of a paleoclimate modeling will be enabled.