Stocker Houghton

2004 HOUGHTON LECTURES SERIES

CECILE PENLAND
NOAA CIRES/CDC

Schedule*

Mondays and Wednesday
10:00 a.m. 11:30 a.m.
54-915

4 February 2004:        Motivation for stochastic modelling and definitions

9 February 2004:        It's not the Central Limit Theorem you're used to: introduction and
                                        application to the baroclinic atmosphere
                                        (Bonus: a linear system with intermittency)

11 February 2004:      Review of Central Limit Theorem, with examples

16 February 2004:      President's Day--no lecture

18 February 2004:      Linear Stochastic Models, Detailed Balance, and El Niño?
                                        (Includes non-normal dynamics)

23 February 2004:      El Niño, Part II

25 February 2004:      Numerical Integration of Stochastic Differential
                                        Equations (SDE's), Part I

1 March 2004:              Numerical Integration of SDE's, Part II;
                                        Stochastic Parameterizations

3 March 2004               More on numerical generation of SDE's (and review)
                                        Time permitting: Begin Kinetic Theory and Fluctuating
                                        Navier-Stokes

8 March 2004 Kinetic Theory and Fluctuating Navier-Stokes

10 March 2004 Review material already presented

Only March 10 will be presented in a different room.

Requests?
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Dr. Cecile Penland
Office: 54-1610
phone: 617-253-2284
email: Cecile.Penland@noaa.gov

*Tentative Schedule--may be changed without notice