Multi-scale modelling of ice characteristics and behaviour
SIPW01
11 September 2017 to 15 September 2017
Workshop theme
Realistic models of Earth’s climate system are essential to making projections about what we may experience as our climate changes. Polar sea ice forms a critical system component which must be accurately accounted for in global climate models. It forms the thin boundary layer coupling the polar oceans and atmosphere, and has seen rather dramatic changes over the past two or three decades. A fascinating and important feature of sea ice is that it displays rich structure and behaviour on scales ranging over 10 orders of magnitude: length scales from microns to hundreds of kilometres, and time scales from milliseconds to decades. This broad range of scales for sea ice structure and properties is relevant to biological, chemical, industrial, weather, as well as climate–related processes. It also leads to sea ice structure at certain scales being similar to other materials such as porous human bone and polycrystalline metals, which can be used to bring new techniques to studying sea ice, and vice versa.
Complex behaviour of sea ice over such a large range of scales presents, however, a fundamental challenge to modelling these systems. For example, many key processes whose relevant length scales may be centimetres or meters to kilometres, impact climate, and must be incorporated into large–scale numerical climate models with grid sizes often on the order of tens of kilometres. Mathematical methods which rigorously account for these smaller scale processes, and enable computation and analysis of their effective behaviour on larger scales relevant for coarse–grained climate models will be a focus of the workshop, and linkage of scales one of its central themes. Moreover, some sea ice properties exhibit scale invariance or predictable scale dependence, while others appear to be wholly emergent, a consequence of interacting processes within and applied to the ice cover. This workshop will address sea ice processes across a wide range of length and time scales, with an emphasis on understanding emergent and scale–invariant phenomena.
NB This year the annual UK Sea Ice Group meeting will be held as part of the "Multiscale modelling of ice characteristics and behaviour" workshop, and will take place on the final day of Friday 15 September 2017. Separate attendance at UKSIG without booking the full workshop is welcome. Full details available here.
Possible topics within the full workshop include:
- Large-scale numerical models of the evolution of polar sea ice
- Sea ice simulations including variability, predictability, and climate projections
- Sea ice microphysics; fluid transport, convection, and the porous brine microstructure
- Melt ponds on Arctic sea ice
- Ice thickness distribution; melting, freezing, mechanical redistribution – ridging and rafting
- Waves in the marginal ice zone
- Scaling in sea ice fracture and dynamics; sea ice rheology
- Momentum balance including form drag, interactions with currents, tides and winds
- Sea ice thermodynamics and exchange processes
- Low order models of polar climate
- Tipping point phenomena
- Stochastic processes in sea ice modelling
Timetable
| Monday 11th September 2017 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 to 09:35 | No Room Required | ||
| 09:35 to 09:45 | No Room Required | ||
| 09:45 to 10:30 |
Donald K. Perovich Dartmouth College |
Room 1 | 
|
| 10:30 to 11:00 | No Room Required | ||
| 11:00 to 11:45 |
Ken Golden University of Utah |
Room 1 |
|
| 11:45 to 12:30 |
Agnieszka Herman University of Gdansk |
Room 1 |
|
| 12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
| 13:30 to 14:00 | No Room Required | ||
| 14:00 to 14:30 |
Veronique Dansereau CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) |
Room 1 |
|
| 14:30 to 15:00 |
Christopher Horvat Harvard University; Brown University |
Room 1 |
|
| 15:00 to 15:30 | No Room Required | ||
| 15:30 to 16:00 |
Courtenay Strong University of Utah |
Room 1 |
|
| 16:00 to 17:00 |
Elizabeth Hunke Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Room 1 |
|
| 17:00 to 18:00 | No Room Required | ||
| Tuesday 12th September 2017 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 to 09:45 |
Vernon Squire University of Otago |
Room 1 |
|
| 09:45 to 10:30 |
Martin Vancoppenolle CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique); Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris |
Room 1 |
|
| 10:30 to 11:00 | No Room Required | ||
| 11:00 to 11:45 |
Daniel Feltham University of Reading |
Room 1 |
|
| 11:45 to 12:30 |
Wieslaw Maslowski Naval Postgraduate School |
Room 1 |
|
| 12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
| 13:30 to 14:00 | No Room Required | ||
| 14:00 to 14:30 |
Sukun Cheng Clarkson University |
Room 1 |
|
| 14:30 to 15:00 |
Christian Samspon University of Utah |
Room 1 |
|
| 15:00 to 15:30 | No Room Required | ||
| 15:30 to 16:00 |
Konrad Simon Universität Hamburg |
Room 1 |
|
| 16:00 to 16:30 |
Noa Kraitzman University of Utah |
Room 1 |
|
| 16:30 to 18:00 | No Room Required | ||
| Wednesday 13th September 2017 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 to 09:45 |
Ian Eisenman University of California, San Diego |
Room 1 | |
| 09:45 to 10:30 |
Andrew Roberts Naval Postgraduate School |
Room 1 |
|
| 10:30 to 11:00 | No Room Required | ||
| 11:00 to 11:45 |
Dirk Notz Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorology |
Room 1 |
|
| 11:45 to 12:30 |
Pat Langhorne University of Otago |
Room 1 |
|
| 12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
| 13:30 to 17:00 | No Room Required | ||
| 19:30 to 22:00 | No Room Required | ||
| Thursday 14th September 2017 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 to 09:45 |
Andrew Wells University of Oxford |
Room 1 |
|
| 09:45 to 10:30 |
Daniela Flocco University of Reading |
Room 1 | |
| 10:30 to 11:00 | No Room Required | ||
| 11:00 to 11:45 |
Robert Bridges Total E&P UK Limited |
Room 1 | |
| 11:45 to 12:30 |
Erik Almkvist Viking Ice Concultancy |
Room 1 | |
| 12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
| 13:30 to 14:00 | No Room Required | ||
| 14:00 to 14:30 |
Predrag Popovic University of Chicago |
Room 1 |
|
| 14:30 to 15:00 |
Yiping Ma Northumbria University |
Room 1 |
|
| 15:00 to 15:30 | No Room Required | ||
| 15:30 to 16:00 |
Woosok Moon British Antarctic Survey |
Room 1 |
|
| 16:00 to 17:00 |
Grae Worster University of Cambridge |
Room 1 |
|
Organisers
- Daniel Feltham University of Reading
- Ken Golden University of Utah
- Marika Holland National Center for Atmospheric Research
- Elizabeth Hunke Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Kaj Riska Total E&P UK Limited; NTNU
- Vernon Squire University of Otago
- Courtenay Strong University of Utah
Speakers
- Erik Almkvist Viking Ice Concultancy
- Yevgeny Aksenov National Oceanography Centre, Southampton
- Ed Blockley Met Office
- Robert Bridges Total E&P UK Limited
- Sukun Cheng Clarkson University
- Veronique Dansereau CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)
- Ian Eisenman University of California, San Diego
- Daniel Feltham University of Reading
- Daniela Flocco University of Reading
- Ken Golden University of Utah
- Agnieszka Herman University of Gdansk
- Christopher Horvat Harvard University; Brown University
- Elizabeth Hunke Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Noa Kraitzman University of Utah
- Pat Langhorne University of Otago
- Yiping Ma Northumbria University
- Wieslaw Maslowski Naval Postgraduate School
- Woosok Moon British Antarctic Survey
- Dirk Notz Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorology
- Donald K. Perovich Dartmouth College
- Predrag Popovic University of Chicago
- David Rees Jones University of Oxford
- Andrew Roberts Naval Postgraduate School
- Stefanie Rynders University of Southampton
- Christian Samspon University of Utah
- David Schroeder University of Reading
- Konrad Simon Universität Hamburg
- Vernon Squire University of Otago
- Julienne Stroeve National Snow and Ice Data Center
- Courtenay Strong University of Utah
- Bruno Tremblay McGill University
- Michel Tsamados University College London
- Martin Vancoppenolle CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique); Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris
- Peter Wadhams University of Cambridge
- Andrew Wells University of Oxford
- Grae Worster University of Cambridge
Participants
- Yevgeny Aksenov National Oceanography Centre, Southampton
- Erik Almkvist Viking Ice Concultancy
- Adam Bateson University of Reading
- Luke Bennetts University of Adelaide
- Ed Blockley Met Office
- Amélie Bouchat McGill University
- Robert Bridges Total E&P UK Limited
- Clara Burgard Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorology
- Sukun Cheng Clarkson University
- Michael Coughlan University of Oxford
- Veronique Dansereau CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)
- Francesca De santi None / Other
- Ian Eisenman University of California, San Diego
- Daniel Feltham University of Reading
- Daniela Flocco University of Reading
- Rebecca Frew University of Reading
- Tao Gao Imperial College London; University College London
- Ken Golden University of Utah
- Nico Gray University of Manchester
- Rebeca Hardenbrook University of Utah
- Agnieszka Herman University of Gdansk
- Richard Hindmarsh British Antarctic Survey
- Paul Holland British Antarctic Survey
- Christopher Horvat Harvard University; Brown University
- Lucia Hosekova University of Reading
- Roger Hosking University of Adelaide; Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI)
- Elizabeth Hunke Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Edward Johnson University College London
- Henrik Kalisch Universitetet i Bergen
- Tatiana Khabakhpasheva University of East Anglia; Lavrentyev Institute of Hydrodynamics
- Alexander Khludnev Lavrentyev Institute of Hydrodynamics; Novosibirsk State University
- Alexander Korobkin University of East Anglia
- Noa Kraitzman University of Utah
- Jack Landy University of Bristol
- Pat Langhorne University of Otago
- Jonni Lehtiranta University of Helsinki
- Martin Losch Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI)
- Yiping Ma Northumbria University
- Alena Malyarenko University of Otago
- Paul Mannix Imperial College London
- Aleksey Marchenko University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS)
- Wieslaw Maslowski Naval Postgraduate School
- Mike Meylan University of Newcastle, Australia
- Paul Milewski University of Bath
- Woosok Moon British Antarctic Survey
- David Morison University of Utah
- Leslie Morland University of East Anglia
- Johannes E. M. Mosig University of Otago
- Dirk Notz Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorology
- Siobhan O'Farrell CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (CMAR)
- Dirk Olonscheck Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorology
- Emilian I Parau University of East Anglia
- Jamie Parkinson University of Oxford
- Nigel Peake University of Cambridge
- Donald K. Perovich Dartmouth College
- Malte Peter Universität Augsburg
- Mathieu Plante McGill University
- Pavel Plotnikov Lavrentyev Institute of Hydrodynamics; Novosibirsk State University
- Predrag Popovic University of Chicago
- Pierre Rampal Universitetet i Bergen
- Jonathan Raulier Université Catholique de Louvain
- David Rees Jones University of Oxford
- Lettie Roach Victoria University of Wellington
- Andrew Roberts Naval Postgraduate School
- Stefanie Rynders University of Southampton
- Christian Samspon University of Utah
- David Schroeder University of Reading
- Konrad Simon Universität Hamburg
- Frank Thomas Smith University College London
- Vernon Squire University of Otago
- David Stevens University of East Anglia
- Julienne Stroeve National Snow and Ice Data Center
- Courtenay Strong University of Utah
- Kevin Thielen University of Oxford
- Bruno Tremblay McGill University
- Michel Tsamados University College London
- Lorenzo Valdettaro Politecnico di Milano
- Martin Vancoppenolle CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique); Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris
- Eugen Varvaruca Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza; University of Reading
- Peter Wadhams University of Cambridge
- Zhan Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Andrew Wells University of Oxford
- Marta Wenta University of Gdansk
- Grae Worster University of Cambridge
Supported By
