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School on Fluctuations and Turbulence in the Microphysics and Dynamics of Clouds

Sunday, 14 February 2010 15:54
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Training School Porquerolles (France)

2-10 September 2010

http://www.oca.eu/clouds-turbulence/clouds.html

Short summay of the scientific objectives:

The formation and life of clouds is intrinsically linked to the dynamical properties of small particles transported in the atmosphere. These can be either the small aerosols on which water vapor condensates or the droplets that constitute the cloud. The role which is played by the turbulence of the airflow is still the matter of intense debates. The goal of the school is to gather experts in atmospheric sciences together with specialists of turbulent transport and of the Lagrangian statistical approach to fluid dynamics.

The courses will be divided in five themes:

A. State of the art in turbulent transport: models and theory

1. Lagrangian turbulence: correlations and violent events

2. Dynamics of heavy particles and dynamical systems

3. Condensation along Lagrangian paths in turbulent flows

4. Modelling collision rates between droplets

 

B. State of the art in turbulent transport: numerics and experiments

1. Direct numerical simulations of particles in turbulence

2. Numerical studies of collisions

3. Lagrangian experimental measurements in turbulence

4. Exchanges between numerics and experiments

 

C. Atmospheric turbulence, convection and clouds

1. Dynamics of the convective atmosphere

2. Thermodynamics of convection

3. Mixing and entrainment in turbulent clouds

 

D. Clouds microphysics

1. Introduction to the microphysics of clouds

2. Turbulence and rain formation in warm clouds

3. Ice crystals and stratified clouds

4. Numerical simulations of clouds

 

E. Applications to meteorology and climatology

1. In-situ measurements in warm clouds

2. Remote measurements of clouds and cloudy boundary layers

3. Parametrization of clouds in meteorological models

4. Interactions between aerosols, clouds and climate

5. Clouds and precipitations in global climatic models

 

The school will take place at the

Hotel-Club IGeSA, Rue de la Douane
Ile de Porquerolles
83400 Hyères
tel: +33 4 94 12 31 80

The island of Porquerolles is located in the South of France, in front of the city of Hyères Les Palmiers, and is a part of the national park of Port-Cros.
The nearest airport is Toulon/Hyères with direct flights from Paris, London, and Rotterdam.
Hyères is also reachable by train with frequent rail links from Paris or Nice, with changes in Toulon (see SNCF website).

 

Map of laboratories

Sunday, 14 February 2010 22:31
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Wednesday, 10 February 2010 18:35
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Training School on Data and dataformats c/o CINECA (Bologna, Italy). 

Agenda:

MP0806 COST Training School
Casalacchio di Reno (Bologna), Italy
Dates 15-16 March 2010

14 March 2010

In the afternoon/evening: arrival.

15 March 2010

08:30 - 08:45 Welcome addresses: Giovanni Erbacci (CINECA), Federico Toschi (MP0806 Chair)
08:45 - 09:45 Data-formats for fluid dynamics: the experimental view (Mathieu Gibert, Julian Martinez Mercado, Marc Wolf). 
09:45 - 10:00 Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30 HDF5: introduction and applications (Claudio Gheller, Guillem Borrell i Nogueras and Federico Toschi)
10:30 - 11:00 The ICTR HDF5 data format for Lagrangian trajectories: where we are, where to go (Enrico Calzavarini)
11:00 - 12:00 Tutorials and exercises (Andrea Scagliarini, HDF5 - Enrico Calzavarini, PHP - Valentina Lavezzo)

12:00 - 14:00 Lunch & discussion time

14:00 - 15:30 Data modeling, metadata, databases and XML (Gerard Lemson)
15:30 - 16:30 Basics of PHP, mySQL and other tools (Giuseppe Fiameni)
16:30 - 18:30 Tutorials and exercises (Andrea Scagliarini, HDF5 - Enrico Calzavarini, PHP - Valentina Lavezzo)

19:30 - 20:30 Dinner & discussion time

16 March 2010

09:00 - 10:00 Federico Toschi: iCFDdatabase2. Present implementation and future developments
10:00 - 11:00 Other experiences: the Astronomical Virtual Observatory (Fabio Pasian)
11:00 - 13:00 Round table and discussion session
 

How to reach CINECA

Hotel:  we have reserved a bunch of rooms at the CALZAVECCHIO HOTEL (Via Calzavecchio, 1 - 40033 - Casalecchio di Reno  -  BOLOGNA - Italy), which is close both to CINECA and to the center of Bologna, at the special rate of 65 euros per night (breakfast included). If you want to reserve a room there, please send an e-mail to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it specifing your name and which nights you need (both, 14-15, or 15-16)

 

 

eCG meeting 1/2010

Sunday, 20 December 2009 16:49
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An extended Core Group meeting was held in Les Houches (FR) on 25th and 26th of January 2010.

The COST Action MP0806 started on the 19th of May 2009 with the KO meeting at the COST Office Headquarters in Brussels. By the end of 2009 each working group had the chance to convene once and several discussions took place during and after these WG meetings. The extended CG meeting was the first opportunity to convene WG leaders and co-leaders along with all Action Core Group (CG) members and any WG participant willing to contribute to the discussion. The goal of the meeting was to make the point of where the Action is, how to improve communication between different working groups, which scheme was found to be the most effective in choosing WG meetings participants to invite etc.
The meeting was embedded into a conference on "High Rayleigh number convection" organized by F. Chilla (ENS-Lyon), D. Lohse (Twente), B. Castaing (ENS-Lyon). The meeting was over two days and included several informal discussions and exchange of ideas, also during breaks and lunch/dinner time.

 

Introduction to the Project

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Fluid turbulence is ubiquitous and so is its ability to transport particulate matter such as dust, soot or droplets. The dynamics of particles in a turbulent flow is fundamental to everyday life - examples of open scientific and technological issues include rain formation in clouds, pollution dispersion in the atmosphere, optimization and emission reduction in combustion, plankton population dynamics - and constitute a major scientific challenge with immediate practical implications and applications. Open scientific issues such as inertia, finite particles sizes, collisions, advection in complex flow geometries are examples of fundamental key ingredients which pose challenging theoretical problems and need to be understood in order to have an impact on applications. By joining forces within the experimental and numerical community of turbulence major breakthroughs can be achieved. The present COST action will create the needed platform for direct communication and interaction between participating laboratories and towards the wider scientific community alike.
 



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