JULES meeting 2018
The annual JULES meeting. Always a good time – and lots of moves by the community to make JULES more useable and robust. 🙂
CRESCENDO meeting
CRESCENDO is the new EU project doing similar climate model improvement work to the EMBRACE project that I’m employed on presently. This was the kick-off meeting, which though I’m not directly involved, Pierre Freidlingstein invited me to come along as a potential post-doc for the project and get a feel for the group and the …
Workshop on CMIP5 Model Analysis and Scientific Plans for CMIP6
This meeting was a combination of analysis of results from CMIP5 and looking forward to planning CMIP6, spanning all the range of CMIP activities, from sea ice to land use. It had a format I haven’t seen before, with each presenter having both a poster and a one minute ‘advertisement’ talk at the beginning for the two …
EMBRACE Final General Assembly
This was both my first EMBRACE meeting, and also the last one, as I joined the project just a year before it ended. Despite that, it was familiar names and faces, and I gave a brief talk about the work I did which bridged work-package 3 and work-package 5. It was great to see how my …
JULES meeting 2014
JULES is the stand-alone version of the land-surface model that is in the Hadley Centre model that I use. Up in Leicester, (which was beautiful at this sunny time of year) this was a meeting with a small conference feel. There were lots of familiar names and faces there, including Richard Essery (my keyboard probably …
Statistical methods for understanding and reducing uncertainty in process-based models of the Earth system
This meeting on statistical methods was fully booked (90 odd delegates) and justifiably so. Lots of great speakers who did alternating theoretical and practical talks with plenty of time for questions. Lots of useful tools/datasets were suggested, including: the uncertweb elicitation tool from Lucy Bastin (project leader Dan pointed to other software they developed, which may or …
Royal Society: Next Steps in Climate Science
The IPCC working group I report and the Summary for Policy Makers report have just been published. Apropos of that, the Royal Society is looking forward to the new climate challenges. But inevitably there was a strong element of summarising what is in the 14k word SMP and some of the chapters of the 2000 …
IAS Spatiotemporal Modelling Workshop
Particularly notable was Matt Rigby on Quantifying greenhouse gas emissions from global to national scales and Finn Lindgren on Air quality analysis with space-time Markov models on continuous domains. Finn is the author of the R-INLA project which helps R users make use of Bayesian statistics.
Deglacial Palaeoday
A day of deglacial themed talks at Bristol.
Geoengineering at Bristol workshop
Today’s workshop (I seem to be going to quite a few at the moment!) was on Geoengineering at Bristol – to present current research and get to know everyone who is doing research on geoengineering at Bristol. It was funded by the Cabot Institute and organised by Pete Irvine. Some of the interesting questions and …