GFDL Collaborations
GFDL Collaborations
Departmential Collaborations with GFDL (Ants Leetmaa, Director)
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton University, Princeton,
N.J.
Primary tasks:
The Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program at Princeton involves
three major elements:
AOS Visiting Scientist Program
The AOS Visiting Scientist Program funds postdoctoral researchers
at all levels to spend time at GFDL learning about numerical modeling
as a discipline and interacting with the GFDL staff on problems of
importance to the lab. Visiting Scientists help GFDL scientists
to improve numerical parameterizations within models, synthesize
data into datasets that can be used to force and evaluate models,
run simple models to elucidate key processes within the Earth System,
and evaluate the output of key GFDL models on a range of time and space
scales. Appointments normally range from a few months
to two years. A committee composed of GFDL scientists and
Princeton faculty meets twice a year to select appointees.
The current chair of the committee is Geoff Vallis
AOS Graduate Program
For over 30 years, scientists at GFDL have collaborated with Princeton
faculty to train leaders in climate sciences. Our graduates are playing
leadership roles at many universities and laboratories around the world.
The program offers graduate courses in meteorology, physical and chemical
oceanography, geophysical fluid dynamics, and atmospheric physics.
Graduate students from the program have access to GFDL computer resources
and are treated as members of the research groups to which their advisors
belong. The current director of graduate studies is Anand Gnanadesikan.
Collaborative research through the AOS Joint Institute
The AOS Joint Insitute involves university scientists in research that
advances the NOAA goal of understanding and predicting the climate
system.
A particular focus of the research is the carbon cycle, both on land
and
within the ocean. University researchers funded by the Joint Institute
are helping to develop both predictive codes to look at how the carbon
system will change in the future and synthesis systems to monitor such
changes.
The current director of the Joint Institute is Prof. Jorge Sarmiento.
Cooperative Institute for Climate Applications and Research (CICAR),
Columbia University of New York, N.Y. (Kushnir)
Primary tasks:
1) Development and use of climate models for the study
of climate variability and change;
2) Development, collection, analysis,
and archiving of instrumental and paleoclimate data for the study of
climate variability and change including abrupt climate change;
3) Development of the application of climate variability and change
prediction for decision making and assessment of risk to society in
the
fields of water resources, agriculture, health, and policy.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR); NASA; National Weather
Service
(NWS); University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
Primary task:
To develop the next generation community-wide version of the Flexible
Modular System (FMS). Collaboration includes developing state-of-the-art
software to implement the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) into
FMS
for the scientific modeling community world-wide. Model development
is
conducted with extensive collaboration with scientists and engineers
in Europe and will include comprehensive testing and comparisons to
improve
the various tools needed to attack the challenging problems of climate
model will be used to perform an extensive set of coordinated 20th,
21st
and 22nd century experiments for the Internation Panel for Climate
Change (IPCC)
Fourth Assessment Report.