It is generally accepted in the scientific community that the world is undergoing a significant change in its climate. The issues and problems of the science that seeks to understand the earth’s climate, and how it is changing, have a significant mathematical dimension. The Mathematics and Climate Research Network (MCRN) is a virtual organization of leading researchers in mathematics and geosciences whose mission is to establish a new area of applied mathematics tailored to the needs of climate research.
- Director:
- Chris Jones, UNC Chapel Hill and Warwick University
- Co-Directors:
- Hans Kaper, Georgetown University and Argonne National Laboratory
- Mary Lou Zeeman, Bowdoin College
- Assistant Director:
- Mark Phillips, UNC Asheville
The network consists of researchers at “nodes” across the US, together with several collaborating government and university labs and centers in the US and beyond. Network researchers have a collective expertise that cuts across the relevant areas of applied mathematics and climate science. They will collaboratively lead a group of postdoctoral research fellows, graduate and undergraduate students to create a cadre of strong mathematicians with the interdisciplinary expertise required to analyze problems that have their origin in climate issues.
MCRN research topics include:
- Climate Process Modeling
- Sea ice, climate, and multiscale composites
- Ice sheet modeling
- Water vapor feedback
- Dynamics of Climate
- Paleoclimate dynamics
- Climate feedback mechanisms
- Abrupt climate change
- Data Analysis and Data Assimilation
- Analysis of historical climate data
- Data assimilation in weather and climate
- Data assimilation in nonlinear fast/slow systems
MCRN is funded by an award from the National Science Foundation’s Division of Mathematical Sciences, and is administered through the Renaissance Computing Institute.
For more information about the Mathematics and Climate Research Network, please email info@mathclimate.org