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Period of Concentration - Stochastic climate models

MPI für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften Leipzig

G3 10 (Lecture hall)

conference

22.05.05 31.05.05

Period of Concentration - Stochastic climate models

conference

22.05.05 31.05.05

Period of Concentration - Stochastic climate models

Program

Workshop on Stochastic Climate Models

	Introductory Lectures
07:15 - 08:15	Yuri Kifer (Hebrew University) Diffusion approximation of the slow motion in averaging
08:30 - 09:30	Cecile Penland (Climate Diagnostics Center) A Stochastic View of El Nino I In this presentation, I review the paradigm of El Nino as a stochastically-forced system. In particular, the interplay of stochastic forcing and non-normal linear dynamics explains a large part of El Nino variability. Since controlled laboratory simulations of climate cannot be performed (except on computers), careful falsification, as opposed to verification, of theory by data was required to establish this paradigm. I shall describe this procedure and, in so doing, show how complex a simple model can be.
12:00 - 13:00	Mark Freidlin (University of Maryland) Averaging Principle for Deterministic and Stochastic Perturbations I First, I will consider averaging in the simplest case: for systems with one degree of freedom and the first integral without singularities. Then I will introduse various regularizations for the system with one degree of freedom and saddle points and show that in the general situation one should consider random perturbations of the equation, not just the initial condition, to regularize the averaging principle for deterministic perturbations. I will describe the limiting slow motion as a stochastic process on the corresponding graph. Next, I will give conditions for averaging principle to be valid for perturbations of multifrequency systems in the action-angle coordinates. I will consider some many-degrees of-freedom systems with singularities in the first integrals. In this case, an open book space should be considered as the phase space for the limiting slow motion. I will consider some applications of this theory to dynamics of incompressible fluid.

08:30 - 09:30	Cecile Penland (Climate Diagnostics Center) A Stochastic View of El Nino II
09:30 - 10:30	Brian Farrell (Harvard University) Some Application of Generalized Stability Theory to Climate Dynamics I These lectures review a set of ideas and approaches to climate theory based broadly on stochastic methods and specifically on the non-normality of the linear system underlying perturbation dynamics in both certain and uncertain systems. Because the term non-normal is imprecise in its connotation, the term Generalized Stability Theory is used for this approach. Areas to be covered are i) The concept of stability of a statistical quantity with application to sensitivity of storm track statistics. ii) The concept of stability of uncertain systems with application to climate forecast. iii) The concept of structural stability of turbulent systems with application to jet vacillation. iv) The concept of the intrinsic non-normality of time dependent systems with application to the statistical stability of dynamical systems.
12:00 - 13:00	Mark Freidlin (University of Maryland) Averaging Principle for Deterministic and Stochastic Perturbations II

08:30 - 09:30	Cecile Penland (Climate Diagnostics Center) A Stochastic View of El Nino III
09:30 - 10:30	Brian Farrell (Harvard University) Application of Generalized Stability Theory to Climate Dynamics II
12:00 - 13:00	Mark Freidlin (University of Maryland) Averaging Principle for Deterministic and Stochastic Perturbations III

08:30 - 09:30	Cecile Penland (Climate Diagnostics Center) A Stochastic View of El Nino IV
09:30 - 10:30	Brian Farrell (Harvard University) Application of Generalized Stability Theory to Climate Dynamics III
12:00 - 13:00	Mark Freidlin (University of Maryland) Averaging Principle for Deterministic and Stochastic Perturbations IV
13:00 - 14:00	George Sell (University of Minnesota) The role of the Navier-Stokes equations on thin 3D domains and global climate modeling
14:00 - 14:15	Coffee break
14:15 - 15:15	Brian Farrell (Harvard University) Application of Generalized Stability Theory to Climate Dynamics IV

07:00 - 07:45	Richard Kleeman (Courant Institute) Probability density functions, ensembles and limits to statistical predictability Ensemble predictions are an integral part of routine weather and climate prediction because of the sensitivity of such projections to the specification of the initial state. In many discussions it is tacitly assumed that ensembles are equivalent to probability distribution functions (p.d.fs) of the random variables of interest. In general for vector valued random variables this is not the case (not even approximately) since practical ensembles do not adequately sample the high dimensional state spaces of dynamical systems of practical relevance. In this talk these ideas are placed on a rigorous footing using concepts derived from Bayesian analysis and information theory. In particular it is shown that ensembles must imply a coarse graining of state space and that this coarse graining implies loss of information relative to the converged p.d.f. To cope with the needed coarse graining in the context of practical applications, a heirarchy of entropic functionals is introduced. These measure the information content of multivariate marginal distributions of increasing order. For fully converged distributions (i.e. p.d.f.s) these functionals form a strictly ordered heirarchy. As one proceeds up the heirarchy however, increasingly coarser partitions are required by the functionals which implies that the strict ordering of the p.d.f. based functionals breaks down. This breakdown is symptomatic of the poor sampling by ensembles of high dimensional state spaces and is unavoidable for most practical applications. In the second part of the talk the theoretical machinery developed above is applied to the practical problem of mid-latitude weather prediction. It is shown that the functionals derived in the first part all decline essentially linearly with time and there appears in fact to be a fairly well defined cut off time (roughly 45 days for the model analyzed) beyond which initial condition information is unimportant to statistical prediction.
08:00 - 08:30	Coffee break
08:30 - 09:15	Adam Monahan (University of Victoria) Stochastic Dynamics of Sea Surface Winds
09:30 - 10:15	Daniel Schertzer (Université Paris VI) A 23/9-dimensional stochastic model of stratified atmosphere and its multifractal predictability
10:30 - 12:30	Lunch break
12:30 - 13:15	Mark Freidlin (University of Maryland) Convection-Diffusion in Stationary Incompressible 3D-Flow which is Close to Planar Motion We will show that a pure deterministic motion should be approximated in certain situation by a stochastic motion. We will introduce for the deterministic system a relative entropy and describe the motion of the wavefronts for a class of reaction-convection equations.
13:30 - 14:15	Matthias Weber (HTW Dresden) On Stochasticity of Solutions of Differential Equations with a Small Delay
14:30 - 15:00	Coffee break
15:00 - 15:45	Björn Schmalfuß (Universität Paderborn) Random dynamical systems for a coupled atmosphere ocean model

07:00 - 07:45	Tim DelSole (George Mason University) Stochastic Models of Quasigeostrophic Turbulence
08:00 - 08:30	Coffee break
08:30 - 09:15	Rupert Klein (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research) Multiple scales models for meteorological applications
09:30 - 10:15	Klaus Fraedrich (Universität Hamburg) tba
10:30 - 12:30	Lunch break
12:30 - 13:15	Samuel Herrmann (Université Nancy) Large deviations for diffusions and stochastic resonance We consider potential type dynamical systems in finite dimensions with two meta-stable states. They are subject to two sources of perturbation: a slow external periodic perturbation of period $T$ and a small Gaussian random perturbation of intensity $\eps$, and therefore mathematically described as weakly time inhomogeneous diffusion processes. A system is in stochastic resonance provided the small noisy perturbation is tuned in such a way that its random trajectories follow the exterior periodic motion in an optimal fashion, i.e. for some optimal intensity $\eps(T)$. The physicists' favorite measures of quality of periodic tuning -- and thus stochastic resonance -- such as spectral power amplification or signal-to-noise ratio have proven to be defective. They are not robust w.r.t. effective model reduction, i.e. for the passage to a simplified finite state Markov chain model reducing the dynamics to a pure jumping between the meta-stable states of the original system. An entirely probabilistic notion of stochastic resonance based on the transition dynamics between the domains of attraction of the meta-stable states -- and thus failing to suffer from this robustness defect -- is investigated by using extensions and refinements of the Freidlin-Wentzell theory of large deviations for time homogeneous diffusions. Large deviation principles developed for weakly time inhomogeneous diffusions prove to be key tools for a treatment of the problem of diffusion exit from a domain and thus for the approach of stochastic resonance via transition probabilities between meta-stable sets.
13:30 - 14:15	Nils Berglund (University of Toulon) Geometric singular perturbation theory applied to stochastic climate models Geometric singular perturbation theory offers an efficient framework for the study of ordinary differential equations with well-separated time scales. It combines the construction of invariant manifolds, which allow a low-dimensional effective description of the dynamics reduced to slow variables, with a local analysis near bifurcation points. We present extensions of this theory to systems of slow-fast stochastic differential equations, constructing, in particular, neighbourhoods of invariant manifolds in which sample paths concentrate. This approach will be illustrated on a few simple models of the North-Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation. Joint work with Barbara Gentz (WIAS, Berlin).
14:30 - 15:00	Coffee break
15:00 - 15:45	George Sell (University of Minnesota) Can stochastic events change the longtime climate?
18:00 - 19:00	Conference dinner at Morrison's Traditional Irish Pub

07:00 - 07:45	Brian Farrell (Harvard University) The Stochastic Parametric Mechanism for Generation of Surface Water Waves by Wind Synoptic scale eddy variance and associated fluxes of heat and momentum in mid-latitude jets are sensitive to small alterations in mean jet velocity, dissipation, and static stability. In this lecture the sensitivity of variance and fluxes to such structured changes in the mean jet is examined. In particular the structured change in the jet producing the greatest change in disturbance variance or flux is obtained. The method used builds on previous work in which storm track statistics were obtained using a stochastic model of jet turbulence. This work extends generalized stability theory from addressing stability of deterministic forecast to addressing stability in the context of statistical forecast.
08:00 - 08:30	Coffee break
08:30 - 09:15	Markus Abel (Universität Potsdam) Estimation of stochastic models from data and application to el nino data We analyze data from temperature measurements in the pacific in three steps to obtain a stochastic model. 1) Public data are embedded using the isomap algorithm to obtain an estimate of the dimension of the system and the corresponding embedded time series. 2) These time series are treated by nonparametric regression, a system of three coupled differential equations is obtained. The unexplained deviance can be modeled by a stochastic term, corresponding to observation. As a side result we find a delay of 6 months in one of the variables, consistent with a recently proposed model by Tsiperman, taking into account Rossby waves in the pacific ocean. 3) The so-obtained model is integrated, an ensemble prediction is performed to yield probabilities for el nino occurence.
09:30 - 10:15	Barbara Gentz (WIAS Berlin) Residence-time distributions as a measure for stochastic resonance Stochastic resonance (SR) is believed to play an important role not only in numerous technological and physical applications, but also in biological and climate systems. Apart from spectral properties of the signal, residence-time distributions have been proposed as a measure for SR. For the paradigm of the motion of a periodically forced Brownian particle in a bistable potential, we explain the relation between first-passage-time and residence-time distributions. Going beyond exponential asymptotics, we are able to give rigorous expressions for the densities of these distributions. In a broad range of forcing frequencies and amplitudes, the distributions are found to be close to periodically modulated exponential ones, where the periodic modulations are governed by a universal function, depending on a single parameter related to the forcing period. Joint work with Nils Berglund (CPT-CNRS Luminy, France).

Period of Concentration - Stochastic climate models

Period of Concentration - Stochastic climate models

Program

Participants

Markus Abel

Julie Alexander

Nils Berglund

Joel Culina

Tim DelSole

Brian Farrell

Klaus Fraedrich

Mark Freidlin

Barbara Gentz

Samuel Herrmann

Peter Imkeller

Yuri Kifer

Richard Kleeman

Rupert Klein

Adam Monahan

Cecile Penland

Daniel Schertzer

Björn Schmalfuß

George Sell

Wolfgang Siegert

Matthias Weber

Organizers

Peter Imkeller

Stefan Müller

Administrative Contact

Katja Bieling