Nonlinear Geophysics



NG001
Advances in Data Assimilation, Predictability and Uncertainty Quantification
Primary Convener:  Steven J Fletcher, Colorado State University, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Conveners:  Brian C Ancell, Texas Tech Univ-Geosciences, Lubbock, TX, United States, Matthias Morzfeld, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Oakland, CA, United States and Derek J Posselt, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Steven J Fletcher, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, United States


NG002
Complex System Dynamics and Analytics across the Geophysical Sciences
Primary Convener:  Rui A.P. Perdigão, Universidade de Lisboa, CE3C & Meteoceanics Interdisciplinary Centre for Complex System Science, Lisboa, Portugal
Conveners:  Julia Hall, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management, Vienna, Austria, Mahesh Lal Maskey, Univ California Davis, Davis, CA, United States and Naresh Devineni, CUNY City College, Department of Civil Engineering, New York, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Rui A.P. Perdigão, Universidade de Lisboa, CE3C & Meteoceanics Interdisciplinary Centre for Complex System Science, Lisboa, Portugal


NG003
Complexity of Urban Geosciences: from Big Data to Dynamics (Centennial session)
Primary Convener:  Daniel J M Schertzer, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, HM&Co, Champs-sur-Marne, France
Conveners:  A. D. Kirwan Jr, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, Klaus Fraedrich, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany and Anastasios Tsonis, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Daniel J M Schertzer, U. Paris-Est, Marne La Vallee Cx 2, France


NG004
Data Assimilation meets Machine Learning
Primary Convener:  Peter Jan van Leeuwen, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Sciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Conveners:  Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Kayo Ide, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States and Alan Geer, ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Peter Jan van Leeuwen, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Sciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States


NG005
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Primary Convener:  Raffaele Marino, CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France
Conveners:  Claudia Cenedese, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Michael A Calkins, University of Colorado, Boulder, Department of Physics, Boulder, CO, United States and Jonathan M Aurnou, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Raffaele Marino, CNRS, École Centrale de Lyon, Lyon, France


NG006
Imaging  Individual Fractures, Networks of Fractures, and Fluid Flow Paths, for Modeling Scale Independent Fractured-Rock Hydrology
Primary Convener:  Christopher Cramer Barton, Wright State University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Dayton, OH, United States
Convener:  Lawrence M Cathles, Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Christopher Cramer Barton, Wright State University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Dayton, OH, United States


NG007
Lorenz Lecture
Primary Convener:  Sarah F Tebbens, Wright State University, Department of Physics, Dayton, OH, United States
Convener:  Juan M. Restrepo, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sarah F Tebbens, Wright State University, Department of Physics, Dayton, OH, United States


NG008
Machine Learning in Space Weather
Primary Convener:  Enrico Camporeale, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States; University of Colorado, Boulder, United States
Conveners:  Jacob Bortnik, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Tomoko Matsuo, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Ryan Michael McGranaghan, Atmospheric and Space Technology Research Associates (ASTRA), Louisville, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Enrico Camporeale, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States; University of Colorado, Boulder, United States


NG009
Nonlinear Geophysics General Contributions
Primary Convener:  Steven J Fletcher, Colorado State University, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Conveners:  Sarah F Tebbens, Wright State University, Department of Physics, Dayton, OH, United States and Juan M. Restrepo, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Primary Liaison:  Steven J Fletcher, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, United States


NG010
Nonlinear Systems in Geophysics: Past Accomplishments and Future Challenges
Primary Convener:  Sarah F Tebbens, Wright State University, Department of Physics, Dayton, OH, United States
Conveners:  Annick Pouquet, Univ British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Andrea Donnellan, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Leonard J Pietrafesa, North Carolina State University at Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sarah F Tebbens, Wright State University, Department of Physics, Dayton, OH, United States


NG011
Stochastic Modelling in Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics
Primary Convener:  Paul Williams, University of Reading, Meteorology, Earley Gate, Reading, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Cecile Penland, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States, Juan M. Restrepo, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States and Aneesh C Subramanian, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), La Jolla, CA, United States


NG012
Uncertainty Quantification and Error Characterization in Remote Sensing
Primary Convener:  Amy J Braverman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Natalya A Kramarova, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Viktoria Sofieva, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Primary Liaison:  Amy J Braverman, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States


A052
Data Assimilation and Inverse Modeling of the Atmospheric Composition
Primary Convener:  Avelino F Arellano Jr, University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
Conveners:  Daven K Henze, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Pablo Saide, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
Primary Liaison:  Pablo Saide, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States


A067
Extratropical Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation Variability
Primary Convener:  Pedram Hassanzadeh, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States
Conveners:  Elizabeth A Barnes, Colorado State University Fort Collins, Fort Collins, CO, UNITED STATES, Aditi Sheshadri, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States and Ding Ma, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Pedram Hassanzadeh, Asst. Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Houston, United States


A109
Progress in Reanalysis: Development, Evaluation and Application
Primary Convener:  Jan Dominik Keller, Deutscher Wetterdienst Nieder, Offenbach, Germany
Conveners:  Michael G Bosilovich, Earth Sciences Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Masatomo Fujiwara, Hokkaido Univ, Sapporo, Japan
Primary Liaison:  Jan Dominik Keller, Deutscher Wetterdienst Nieder, Offenbach, Germany


A133
Turbulence in Extreme Weather Events
Primary Convener:  Steve Guimond, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Physics, Baltimore, MD, United States; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, JCET/UMBC Physics, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Jun Zhang, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States; NOAA/AOML/Hurricane Research Division, Miami, FL, United States and Sydney Sroka, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Steve Guimond, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States


A136
Urban Climate Informatics -- from sourcing to (deep) learning
Primary Convener:  Ariane Christine Middel, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
Conveners:  Daniel J M Schertzer, U. Paris-Est, Marne La Vallee Cx 2, France, Matthias Demuzere, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany and Florian Arwed Schneider, Arizona State University, School of Sustainability, Tempe, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ariane Christine Middel, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States


EP003
Advances in Understanding and Modelling the Mechanics of Large-Scale Particulate Flows
Primary Convener:  Andrew J Hogg, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom
Convener:  Robert Michael Dorrell, University of Hull, Hull, HU6, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Andrew J Hogg, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom


H071
Heterogeneity, upscaling and uncertainty quantification in subsurface flow and transport
Primary Convener:  Brian D. Wood, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Conveners:  Nick Engdahl, Washington State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pullman, WA, United States, Francisco J Valdes-Parada, UAM Metropolitan Autonomous University of Mexico, Azcapotzalco, Mexico and Didier Lasseux, Université Bordeaux, I2M - TREFLE, Talence, Cedex, France
Primary Liaison:  Brian D. Wood, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States


IN031
Geospatial Intelligence: Data-Driven Research in the Earth Sciences
Primary Convener:  Jens F Klump, CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering Perth, Perth, WA, Australia
Conveners:  Orhun Aydin, ESRI, Redlands, CA, United States, Emily Law, CalTech JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States and Warren T Wood, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Ctr, MS, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jens F Klump, CSIRO Earth Science Resource Engineering, Perth, Australia


NH008
Centennial Overview: Data science and the future of Natural Hazards Science
Primary Convener:  Robert Weiss, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Conveners:  John B Rundle, University of California Davis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, Hui Tang, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States and James Neely, Northwestern University, Evanston, United States
Primary Liaison:  Robert Weiss, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States


NH044
Urban Geohazards Assessment and Mitigation Integrated Approach for Resilient and Sustainable Cities
Primary Convener:  Ahmet C Yalciner, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey; METU, Department of Civil Engineering, Ankara, Turkey
Conveners:  Stefano Tinti, Univ Bologna, Bologna, Italy, Daniel J M Schertzer, U. Paris-Est, Marne La Vallee Cx 2, France and Amos Salamon, Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel
Primary Liaison:  Stefano Tinti, Univ Bologna, Bologna, Italy


NS010
Near-Surface Geophysics for Anthropogenic Targets
Primary Convener:  Isabel Mae Morris, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
Conveners:  Rene E Chavez, UNAM National Autonomous University of Mexico, Instituto de Geofisica, Mexico City, Mexico and Steven J Fletcher, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Steven J Fletcher, Colorado State University, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, United States


SH027
The role of coherent structures and intermittency in space plasma cascade, energy conversion and dissipation.
Primary Convener:  William H Matthaeus, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
Conveners:  Yan Yang, Southern University of Science and Technology, Senzhen, China and Sergio Servidio, University of Calabria, Cozenza, Italy
Primary Liaison:  William H Matthaeus, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States


SH031
Turbulent energization and dissipation:  Insights from multispacecraft observations from Cluster and MMS to Helioswarm, Debye and beyond.
Primary Convener:  William H Matthaeus, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
Conveners:  Daniel Verscharen, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, Kristopher G. Klein, University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, AZ, United States and James Webster, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  William H Matthaeus, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States


S028
Off-fault Damage Around Ruptures Across Scales
Primary Convener:  Kurama Okubo, Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Conveners:  Marion Y Thomas1,2, Harsha S. Bhat1,3 and Alexandre Schubnel1,4, (1)CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France(2)ISTeP Institut des Sciences de la Terre de Paris, Paris Cedex 05, France(3)Ecole Normale Supérieure, Département de Géosciences, Paris, France(4)Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, Laboratoire de Géologie, Paris, France
Primary Liaison:  Kurama Okubo, Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States


V056
Volcano Seismology and Acoustics: Recent Advances in Understanding Volcanic Processes
Primary Convener:  Benoit Taisne, Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Conveners:  Alexandra M Iezzi, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Christopher J Bean, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, Ireland and Weston A Thelen, USGS, Cascades Volcano Observatory, Vancouver, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Weston A Thelen, USGS, Cascades Volcano Observatory, Vancouver, WA, United States