Topics & Lecturers

Topics

• Atmospheric modeling as a multiscale problem
• Atmospheric models with non-uniform grid resolution
• Convective parameterization methods
• CHUVA-project: contribution to numerical modeling
• Global Atmospheric Models overview
• “Grey zone” numerical models
• High resolution climate modeling: advances and applications
• Impact of the LBA program on the modeling of continental tropical processes
• Land-ocean-atmosphere feedbacks and the impacts in convective processes
• Modeling of radiative processes and impacts on land-surface and atmosphere
• Moist convection modeling overview
• Multiscale modeling of moist convective processes
• Numerical methods
• Orography sub-grid scale processes
• High-resolution modelling of turbulence

Students will have the opportunity to present their work related with the abstract submitted in a poster session during the Summer School

Lecturers

• Alan J. P. Calheiros - INPE, Brazil
• Ariane Frassoni - INPE, Brazil
• Enio Pereira de Souza, UFCG
• Enver Ramirez - INPE, Brazil
• Georg A. Grell - NOAA, USA
• Irina Sandu - ECMWF, UK
• Jairo Panetta - ITA, Brazil
• Kevin A. Reed - Stony Brook Univ., USA
• Luiz Augusto Toledo Machado - INPE, Brazil
• Maria Assunção Faus da Silva Dias - IAG/USP, Brazil
• Nilton Rosário, UNIFESP
• Saulo Freitas - USRA/GESTAR/NASA, USA
• Stephan de Roode, TU Delft
• Silvio Nilo Figueroa - INPE, Brazil
• Pedro da Silva Peixoto - USP, Brazil
• Pedro Leite da Silva Dias - IAG/USP, Brazil
• Peter Lauritzen, NCAR