Regensburg 2013 – wissenschaftliches Programm

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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 4: Focus Session: Atmospheric and Climate Complexity

DY 4.4: Hauptvortrag

Montag, 11. März 2013, 16:30–17:00, H47

Climate as a Problem of Non-equilibrum Statistical Mechanics — •Valerio Lucarini — Klimacampus, Institute of Meteorology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany — Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Reading, Reading, UK

The investigation of the climate system is one of the grand challenges of contemporary science. Such a problem is gaining more and more relevance as exoplanets are being discovered at an accelerating rate and rather exotic atmospheric circulations are being conjectured, due to the vast variety of possible astronomical and astrophysical configurations. In this contribution we will discuss how non-equilibrium statistical mechanics (and, specifically the adoption of the mathematical framework provided by Axiom A dynamical systems) allows framing in a rigorous and efficient way classical problems of climate science such as the understanding of the climatic response to forcings of general nature and the parametrization of unresolved processes.