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[[Image:Portland.jpg|thumb|right|400 px|The summer ice sheet modeling school will be held in Portland Oregon, August 3-14, 2009]]

==Overview==
Ice Sheet Models for the 21st Century Summer School will be an intensive short course that brings current and future ice-sheet scientists together to develop better models for the projection of future sea-level rise (slr).  The IPCC Fourth Assessment Report [http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-syr.htm] acknowledged that current models do not adequately treat the dynamic response of ice sheets to climate change, and that this is the largest uncertainty in assessing potential rapid sea-level rise.  Recognizing this, an ice-sheet modelling Workshop was held during the July 2008 SCAR/IASC [https://www.comnap.aq/content/events/osc2008] meeting, in St. Petersburg, Russia.  This meeting developed a community strategy on how best to (i) improve the physical understanding of ice-sheet processes responsible for rapid change; (ii) incorporate improved physical understanding into numerical models; (iii) assimilate appropriate data into the models for calibration and validation; and (iv) develop prognostic whole ice-sheet models that better incorporate non-linear ice-sheet response to environmental forcing (such as change in surface mass balance, loss of buttressing from floating ice shelves and ice tongues, and rising sea level).  

The two-week Summer School is a first step towards implementing this strategy.  It will bring scientists from differing backgrounds together and allow more extensive and in-depth interactions between the relevant scientific research communities.  A series of general background lectures as well as discussions of more specialized and advanced topics during this Summer School will provide the foundation for cross-disciplinary research, particularly for early career scientists.  We anticipate publication of lecture notes both in hard copy and on a dedicated home page, to provide the glaciological community with an up-to-date overview of the science and observational techniques that will serve to guide further research efforts. Direct beneficiaries will be young researchers; indirect beneficiaries will be coastal zone communities who will gain improved sea level change forecasts to underpin their plans for sustainable development.

===Venue===
The modeling school was held on the campus of [[Wikipedia:Portland State University|Portland State University]] in [[Wikipedia:Portland, Oregon|Portland, Oregon]] August 3-14, 2009.

* [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Portland+Airport&daddr=310+SW+Lincoln+St,+Portland,+OR+97201-5007+(University+Place-Portland)&geocode=&hl=en&mra=ls&dirflg=r&date=07%2F28%2F09&time=8:59am&ttype=dep&noexp=0&noal=0&sort=&tline=&sll=45.54878,-122.629155&sspn=0.092445,0.144367&ie=UTF8&ll=45.548679,-122.619438&spn=0.092445,0.144367&z=13&start=0 Map] from airport to [http://cegs.pdx.edu/stay/upl/ University Place Hotel] using public transport (note that the directions in your travel letter are better than the Google generated instructions here).

* [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=310+SW+Lincoln+St,+Portland,+OR+97201-5007+(University+Place-Portland)&daddr=1721+SW+Broadway,+Portland,+OR+97201+(Cramer+Hall)&hl=en&geocode=FdVhtgIdZwqw-CHO0mMQPCwi0Q%3BFRN3tgIdvP2v-CHxCBg32xEzXA&mra=ls&dirflg=w&sll=45.51029,-122.681675&sspn=0.005782,0.009023&ie=UTF8&ll=45.510091,-122.68232&spn=0.005782,0.009023&z=17 Map] from [http://cegs.pdx.edu/stay/upl/ University Place Hotel] to [http://www.pdx.edu/campus-map Cramer Hall].

=== Student Participants ===

*[[Nominations for Student/Instructor Awards]]
*[[Student Bios]]
*[[Student Presentation Development]]
*[[Groups]] example of [[connections in groups]]
*[[Terminology]]
*[[Questions]]
*[[Adam and Kristin's UW Brownbag]]

===Lectures and Planned Activities===

For information about editing this page, see [[Wikipedia:How to edit]].

You can view a summary of the subjects covered at the Summer Modeling School by clicking on the following link. [[Subject Overview]]

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!width="20%"|Dates
!width="25%"|Lecture Topics
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!width="25%"|Laboratory Topics
!width="15%"|Laboratory Instructors 
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| [[4-5 August]]
| Introduction to and theoretical basis for ice sheet modeling. 
| Kees van der Veen, [[Nina Kirchner]] 
| [[Finite differencing|Finite differencing]] and [[Pragmatic Programming|pragmatic programming]] using Fortran[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran] 95...
computing divergence and gradient...
from conservation equation to matrix algebra...
rheology and that which makes ice ice...
simple, ideal models...
that which makes ice-sheet modeling hard...
| Gethin Williams, [[Ian Rutt]], [[Jesse Johnson]]
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| 6 August 
| [[Basal Conditions]], [[Data sets for ice sheet modeling]]
| Alan Rempel, Slawek Tulaczyk and Ken Jezek
| [[COMSOL Multiphysics]]
| Olga Sergienko and Jesse Johnson
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| 7 August
| The world of [[ice shelves]] and 'distributed stress-field solutions'. [[Modelling mountain glaciers]].
| Todd Dupont, Olga Sergienko, and Brian Anderson
| Linear Algebra of ice-sheet modeling, relaxation methods, finite-element methodology, solution of Laplace equation in arbitrary domain, creation of an ice-shelf flow-field model (snap shot of flow field), Models of the Ross Ice Shelf
| Olga Sergienko and Todd Dupont

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| 8 August
| [[Student Presentation]]
| [[Modeling School Students]]
| open work day with breakfast at 8 am & student presentation at 9 am
| go to the farmer's market
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| 9 August
| Free day; possible PDX tour
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| 10 August
| Excursion to Mt. Hood and [[Eliot Glacier field trip‎]] <br> Meet at 7:00 am for breakfast in Cramer Hall. Bring a jacket, water, and sensible (supportive) shoes.<br> Box lunches are provided and we will stop for dinner on the return trip (bring cash). 
| Guided by [http://web.pdx.edu/~basagic/ Hassan Basagic]
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| [[Quantifying_model_uncertainty |11 August]]
| [[Quantifying model uncertainty]]
| Charles Jackson and [http://www.mit.edu/~heimbach Patrick Heimbach]
| Uncertain lab, [[Dynamic response to the enhanced basal flow in the Greenland ice sheet]] Weili Wang
| Charles Jackson, Patrick Heimbach, and Weili Wang
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| [[12-13 August]]
| Introduction to Glimmer-CISM ([[Introduction to Glimmer I|Part I]], [[Introduction to Glimmer II|Part II]]); [[Higher order velocity schemes|Higher-order models]]
| [[Ian Rutt]], [[Magnus Hagdorn]], [[Stephen Price]], Bill Lipscomb, [[Jesse Johnson]]
| Software development and [[Adding a module to Glimmer I|creating a module for Glimmer]], [[representing and manipulating data]]. [[Grounding line treatments]], presented by Sophie Nowicki. [[Verifying ice sheet models]], presented by Aitbala Sargent
| [[Ian Rutt]], [[Magnus Hagdorn]], Gethin Williams, Stephen Price, Bill Lipscomb, [[Jesse Johnson]]
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| 14 August
| Coupling the Cryosphere to other Earth systems: [[Coupling the Cryosphere to other Earth systems, part I|part I]], [[Coupling the Cryosphere to other Earth systems, part II|part II]] ; [[Course Evaluation]]
| Bill Lipscomb and [[Ian Rutt]]
| Community Climate System Model (CCSM) Lab
| Bill Lipscomb, [[Jesse Johnson]], Stephen Price and [[Ian Rutt]]
|}

====[[Typical Daily Schedule]]====

===Resources===

Additional student/instructor resources for the Summer School:
* List of [[Computing Resources and Room Description]]
* [[Cryptocards]]
* Details of [[Eliot Glacier field trip‎]]
* An outline [[Reading List]]
* [[Notes]] from daily lectures
* Portland [[dining and brewpub suggestions]]
* [[age verification|PDX afterhours]]
* [[ideas for Portland extracurricular activities]]
* [[Newsletter Article]]

===Application and Registration===
''The window for receipt of student applications has closed.  Thank you for your interest in the program. ''

The registration fee for the course is US $350.

===Funding Agencies===


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===Organizing Committee===
Christina Hulbe, Jesse Johnson, Cornelis van der Veen