Centre for the Mathematics of Planet Earth at the University of Reading

PhD Opportunities in the Mathematics for our Future Climate: Theory, Data and Simulation.

EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training at University of Reading, University of Southampton, and Imperial College London.

A dynamic and interdisciplinary initiative that harnesses the power of mathematics to address the urgent issues presented by climate change.

Apply here:

https://apply.mfccdt.ac.uk/

CMPE WORKSHOP:

EXtremes and Rare Events in Climate and related applications
3 July 2024, University of Reading

Organisers:
Reyk Boerner
Abhishek Pal Majumder
Jeroen Wouters

Confirmed speakers:
Ignacio Del Amo Blanco
Richard Everitt
Tobias Grafke
Frank Kwasniok
Nicholas Leach
Valerio Lucarini
Claudia Neves
Marilena Oltmanns
Christian Rohrbeck
Joran Rolland
Ted Shepherd

CMPE Workshop:

Ver-AI workshop on on Verification of AI-Based Meteorological Forecasts, Reading 2024

24th of June 2024
Brian Hoskins Building, University of Reading.
Organisers:
Jochen Bröcker
Simon Driscoll

Speakers:
Simon Lang, ECMWF
Simon Driscoll, U Reading
Tobias Necker, U Vienna
Anna-Louise Ellis, MetOffice
Lewis Blunn, MetOffice
Zied Ben Bouallegue, ECMWF
Martin Leutbecher, ECMWF
Harris Sop Nkuiate, U Exeter
Etienne Roesch, U Reading
Cedric Mesnage, U Exeter

Post-Doc Researcher in the area of Mathematics of Planet Earth - 3-y position - University of Leicester - Deadline: July 3rd 2024

Description:
We are looking for an ambitious and creative early career researcher for a position of PDRA in Applied Mathematics. The post is funded by the College of Science and Engineering and is aimed at supporting research within the broad theme “Mathematics of Planet Earth”. This includes research areas like extreme events, critical transitions, response of the climate system to perturbations; analysis of interplay of climate variability and climate change, metastability and long transients, parametrization of unresolved processes, and model reduction methods, and among others. Climate is intended here in a broad sense, encompassing potentially its physical as well as biological and ecological dimensions. The post-holder will be embedded in a world-class research environment and will have the possibility to interact with multiple academic partners in the UK and overseas. It is expected that the post-holder will support graduate students, deliver scientific presentation of the obtained results in international conferences, and contribute to the preparation of reports and scientific publications. Contributing to teaching activities is encouraged.

Link:

Research Associate in Leicester | University of Leicester Recruitment Team View details and apply for this Research Associate vacancy in Leicester. We are looking for an ambitious and creative early career researcher for a position of PDRA in Applied Mathematics. The post is funded by the College of Science and Engineering and is aimed at suppo...

Conference "Metastability and Tipping in Complex Systems”, 3-5 September 2024, Leicester

On 3-5 September 2024 the University of Leicester will host the international conference "Metastability and Tipping in Complex Systems”. The event is partially supported by the London Mathematical Society.

Please join us! We invite submission of abstracts for oral and poster presentations. The participation of graduate students and early career researchers is particularly encouraged.

Lots of exciting invited speakers have confirmed their participation. More to come.

Conference Website and Abstract Submission:
https://reykboerner.github.io/metastability24.html

Registration:
https://shop.le.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/leicester-conferences/mathematics/metastability-tipping-2024

Key Info: Abstract submission deadline: 25 June / Early-bird registration deadline: 9 July / Registration closes: 31 July / Fees: 70 GBP (Student/Early Career Reseacher) | 100 GBP (Early bird) | 150 GBP (Regular)

Metastability & Tipping 2024 | shop@le The goal of the conference is to share recent results in mathematics and its applications in science and engineering around the theory of metastability for

PhD position (Delft): Unraveling cloud patterns in the climate system

Fascinated by clouds? Intrigued by complexity in the climate system? Motivated by teamwork? Then consider a PhD position at Delft University of Technology within the ERC Starting Grant project MesoClou (Franziska Glassmeier)!

See here for more information:

https://www.tudelft.nl/over-tu-delft/werken-bij-tu-delft/vacatures/details?jobId=17564

Apply by Jun 10, 2024!

Maxime gives his convener's pitch at EGU session on postprocessing and verification, NP5.2.
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/session/50592
Merci beaucoup, Maxime!

See you at next EGU's postprocessing and verification session. Thanks to all co-conveners for this wonderful event.

Thanks to all colleagues for making EGU such a great event.

📢 Just announced: This Day, we are delighted to present a special 'In Conversation' event with Professor Ed Hawkins , Reading-based climate scientist, IPCC author, and creator of the world-famous warming stripes.

🌏 How the climate stripes spread a message around the world
📆 Friday 21 June 2024 | 19:00 - 20:30
🏛️ Reading Town Hall (and online)

Hear the full story of how the stripes evolved from a modest science graphic to a global phenomenon, embraced by millions and inspiring climate conversations everywhere.

Tickets are FREE but pre-booking is a must!

Book Now 🔗 https://rdg.ac/3x01yUd

Part of . See ReadingCAN or https://rdg.ac/3yHYFrF for full event listings.

2024 Atlantic hurricane season set to be the most active on record The stage is set for what could be the most active Atlantic hurricane season in recorded history. Allison Chinchar explains what is behind the record-breaking predictions.

EGU would like to welcome our new Union President, Peter van der Beek. Peter will serve as President until the end of his term in 2027. To support him, Marian Holness has been appointed Vice-President until the next Presidential Elections.

Read more: https://egu.eu/98D9PF/

Peter Ashwin elected SIAM fellow!
Congratulations to Peter Ashwin (University of Exeter) for being chosen for the 2024 Class of SIAM fellows ``For contributions to dynamical systems and its application to mathematical biology and climate change.''! CMPE is happy to have Peter on the External Advisory Board.

CMPE has new directors
The University of Reading has agreed to continue funding CMPE. The centre will be lead by Jochen Bröcker (Director, https://www.reading.ac.uk/maths-and-stats/staff/jochen-broecker) and Jeroen Wouters (Co-Director, https://www.reading.ac.uk/maths-and-stats/staff/jeroen-wouters).

FAREWELL TO VALERIO
After leading CMPE for six successful years, we need to say arrivederci to Valerio who has taken up a position at University of Leicester. We are grateful to Valerio for his contributions big and small to MPE at Reading which, among so many other things, include CMPE. We are glad to say that CMPE will live on as the University of Reading has agreed to continue funding it (more information to come).
All the best, Valerio, for your new job at Leicester!

*We highlight a PhD opening at the University of Leicester*

A great opportunity for an interdisciplinary PhD project cutting across applied mathematics, statistical physics, and climate science. The goal is to advance our understanding of tipping points in the Earth system.

The student will join a newly established research group and an international and dynamic academic environment.

Title of the project.
Exploring multiscale dynamical landscapes and hierarchies of tipping points in the Earth System

Deadline:
April 10th 2024

Start date:
September 23rd 2024

Exploring multiscale dynamical landscapes and hierarchies of tipping points in the Earth System | Postgraduate research | University of Leicester University of Leicester. PhD in Maths. Project Exploring multiscale dynamical landscapes and hierarchies of tipping points in the Earth System. Supervisor Prof. Valerio Lucarini

EGU Annual Assembly
Vienna, 14-19 April 2024

https://www.egu24.eu

The abstract submission deadline is 10 January 2024, 13 CET.

Session
NP1.5 - "The climate model hierarchy".

NP1.5 - The climate model hierarchy: Improving process understanding by bridging the gap between conceptual and earth system models

Co-organized by AS5/CL4/OS4
Conveners: Reyk Börner, Oliver Mehling, Raphael Römer, Maya Ben-Yami, Richard Wood
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/session/50584

Session NP1.5 Precise match in quotes: "term1 term2" "red apples" returns results matching exactly like: Anthocyanin biosynthesis in red apples

EGU Annual Assembly
Vienna, 14-19 April 2024

https://www.egu24.eu

The abstract submission deadline is 10 January 2024, 13 CET.

Session
NP 1.1: Mathematics of Planet Earth

https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/session/50582


Taking inspiration from the Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 initiative, this session aims at bringing together contributions from the growing interface between the Earth science, mathematical, and theoretical physical communities. Our goal is to stimulate the interaction among scientists of these and related disciplines interested in solving environmental and geoscientific challenges. Considering the urgency of the ongoing climate crisis, such challenges refer, for example, to the theoretical understanding of the climate and its subsystems as a highly nonlinear, chaotic system, the improvement of the numerical modelling via theory-informed and data-driven methods, the search for new data analysis methods, and the quantification of different types of impacts of global warming.

Specific topics include: PDEs, numerical methods, extreme events, statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, dynamical systems theory, large deviation theory, response theory, tipping points, model reduction techniques, model uncertainty and ensemble design, stochastic processes, parametrisations, data assimilation, and machine learning. We invite contributions both related to specific applications as well as more speculative and theoretical investigations. We particularly encourage early career researchers to present their interdisciplinary work in this session.

Invited speakers: Zoltan Toth (NOAA), Giulia Carigi (University of L'Aquila)

Conveners: Melinda Galfi, Manita Chouksey, Francisco de Melo Virissimo, Lesley de Cruz, Valerio Lucarini

Session NP1.1 Precise match in quotes: "term1 term2" "red apples" returns results matching exactly like: Anthocyanin biosynthesis in red apples

https://climate.leeds.ac.uk/what-would-happen-to-the-climate-if-we-reforested-the-entire-tropics/

What would happen to the climate if we reforested the entire tropics? - Priestley Centre for Climate Futures A blog from Simon Lewis, Professor of Global Change Science in the School of Geography; Alexander Koch, University of Hong Kong, and Chris Brierley, UCL What would happen if every single patch of farmland in the tropics, from Brazil through Congo, India and Indonesia, was abandoned overnight and lef...

Happy holidays!

Limits to predictability of the asymptotic state of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in a conceptual climate model Anticipating critical transitions in the Earth system is of great societal relevance, yet there may be intrinsic limitations to their predictability. …

https://www.newton.ac.uk/news/ini-news/vacancies-ini-postdoctoral-research-fellowships/

Vacancies: INI Postdoctoral Research Fellowships - Isaac Newton Institute The Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (INI) invites applications for up to six 12-month INI Postdoctoral Fellowships in Mathematics. This scheme has been established to enable early career researchers in the mathematical sciences to gain experience, independence and new connections, a...

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/25/weather/snowfall-temperatures-climate-change-water/index.html

These maps show where snowfall is changing. The consequences of losing snow could be dire | CNN Snowfall is declining globally as temperatures rise because of human-caused climate change, a new analysis and maps from a NOAA climate scientist show.

Some mathematical results on multistability in the climate system and on the (runaway) Greenhouse effect

P. Cannarsa, V. Lucarini, P. Martinez, C. Urbani, J. Vancostenoble; Analysis of a two-layer energy balance model: Long time behavior and greenhouse effect. Chaos 33 (11): 113111 (2023)

pubs.aip.org

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/06/india/new-delhi-pollution-level-high-intl-hnk/index.html

Choking New Delhi smog shutters schools and shrouds Cricket World Cup | CNN A throat-searing blanket of smog has enveloped New Delhi, forcing schools to shut and disrupting the Cricket World Cup as officials rush to contain a pollution crisis that has become an annual occurrence in the Indian capital.

https://www.reading.ac.uk/news/2023/Research-News/Climate-change-tipping-points-easier-to-judge-with-Maths-breakthrough

Climate change tipping points easier to judge with Maths breakthrough - University of Reading We use cookies on reading.ac.uk to improve your experience. Find out more about our cookie policy. By continuing to use our site you accept these terms, and are happy for us to use cookies to improve your browsing experience.

Lucarini, V., Chekroun, M.D. Theoretical tools for understanding the climate crisis from Hasselmann’s programme and beyond. Nat Rev Phys (2023).

Theoretical tools for understanding the climate crisis from Hasselmann’s programme and beyond - Nature Reviews Physics Klaus Hasselmann’s viewpoint has had enormous influence in climate science, both in its theoretical and practical aspects. This Perspective provides a review of Hasselmann’s scientific programme and proposes ways forward for advancing our knowledge on the multiscale behaviour of the climate syst...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/18/drought-amazon-capital-climate-manaus-forest-fires-air-quality-rivers

Drought turns Amazonian capital into climate dystopia Forest fires leave Manaus with second worst air quality in the world, while low river levels cut off communities

https://www.insu.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/dimportants-evenements-de-basculement-ont-domine-levolution-du-systeme-climatique

D'importants événements de basculement ont dominé l'évolution du système climatique Au cours des 66 derniers millions d'années, parmi les basculements climatiques caractérisant l'évolution du système climatique de notre planète, deux événements y ont joué un rôle majeur. Dans le cadre du projet européen TiPES, une équipe internationale dont des scientifiques du CNRS-INSU...

Drought across Europe

According to the European Observatory

In mid-September
➡️ 24.3% of the EU-27 territory was under a drought warning
➡️ 1.7% was under alert🔴

🔗https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/european-and-global-drought-observatories/european-drought-observatory-edo-combined-drought-indicator-europe_en

According to , September 2023 was the warmest September on record on the European continent ♨️

➡️Air T°🌡️ was 1.1°C higher than in 2020, the previous warmest September

⬇️Surface Air Temperature Anomaly for September 2023