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CGD Partnerships: Scripps/UCSD/NCAR's New and Young

Exchanging students and knowledge - a pilot program

SUNNY is a program that facilitates the access of Scripps/UCSD students to the most sophisticated tools of climate research at NCAR, and allows NCAR to profit from the most recent advances in oceanographic sciences made at Scripps/UCSD.

Once it becomes clear during the development of the student's thesis proposal that a CCSM and its components would provide additional insights, the student can ask 'NCAR faculty' to become a member of his/her thesis committee. Together with the primary advisor and the NCAR faculty, a plan will be developed how to best use NCAR facilites (coupled model, component models, supercomputers) in pursuit of the students research.

Current faculty members are:

• Frank Bryan: mesoscale eddies
• Gokhan Danabasoglu: thermohaline circulation / subgrid parameterizations
• Peter Gent: ACC
• Marika Holland: sea-ice / Arctic Ocean
• Markus Jochum: tropical oceans
• Bill Large: oceanic / atmospheric boundary layer
• Keith Lindsay: ocean ecosystem and biogeochemistry
• Synthe Peacock: ocean tracer distribution

Every year the student will spend a minimum of 1 month and a maximum of 3 months at NCAR to work in close collaboration with NCAR faculty. NCAR will pay for airfare (roundtrip San Diego/Denver) and the per diem of $1000.00/month for the student, and provide office space and computer access for up to two students at one time. Initial resources for the supercomputers will be provided by NCAR, but it is expected that the primary advisor will apply for supercomputing time. Note that a funded NSF proposal entitles the PI to time on NCAR supercomputers.