Speaker:Dr Emily Shuckburgh (DAMTP)
Venue: Old Combination Room, Trinity College
Time: 06/11/2006 20:30, drinks from 20:15

The talk is available.

Many aspects of weather and climate can be understood by considering idealised models and using basic physical principles together with standard mathematical techniques used in all branches of applied mathematics. This talk will explore the mathematics behind the weather and climate by exploring two case studies which display rather different physics. The first is that of winter storms that hit the UK, and second is the El Nino phenomena which dominates the year-to-year variability of weather over much of the Pacific region. Understanding the physical mechanisms which drive these weather features and their sensitivity to changes allows us to make short-term forecasts and longer-term climate predictions.