Leonard Smith gave a talk entitled ‘From termites and penguins to blocking and the Andes: interpreting models of the earth system’ at the Alpine Summer School ‘Cross-Scale Interactions in the Coupled Geosphere-Biosphere System‘, 15-24 June 2016, Valsavarenche, Aosta Valley, Italy.
Nick Watkins gave a talk on ‘(A)phantasia and SDAM: personal, scientific and human perspectives’ at the Eye’s Mind: Visual Imagination, Neuroscience and the Humanities Conference, 21-22 May 2016, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UEA, Norwich. Talk slides. Audio.
Leonard Smith gave a presentation entitled ‘Pragmatic Predictability (in the real world)’ at the Computation Institute, University of Chicago.
CATS was involved in organising a workshop entitled ‘Improving the Quantitative Interpretation of Simulation Models‘ at the Banff International Research Station, Canada.
Dr Ralph Rayner was a Co-Chair on the organising committee of the ‘Catch the Next Wave‘ Conference 2016, Royal Institution, London.
Leonard Smith gave a talk entitled ‘Just Enough Decisive Information: flexible response via GLIMPSE’ and took part in the ‘Global perspectives: risk and uncertainty roundtable’ at the Flood and Coast 2016: Risk, Resilience and Response in a Changing Climate Conference, Telford. Talk slides.
Leonard Smith took part in discussions with congressmen as part of the ASA Advisory Committee on Climate Change Policy (ACCCP) 6th Annual Climate Science Day 2016 meeting, Capitol Hill, Washington DC.
Leonard Smith talked about building confidence at the ‘Extreme Weather Events and Climate Change Attribution’ workshop for the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Committee, Washington DC.
Leonard Smith gave a keynote talk entitled ‘Doing science in the dark’ at the 3rd National eScience Symposium, Amsterdam.
Members of CATS gave the following talks at a mini symposium at the Dynamic Days Europe Conference, Exeter. Leonard Smith ‘Pragmatic Bayes: embracing with model inadequacy in nonlinear dynamical systems’ Abstract; and ‘Data assimilation: what is the point?’ Abstract; David Stainforth ‘On quantifying the local climate response in observations and models’ Abstract; Ed Wheatcroft ‘On the chance of rain: probability forecasts in an operational setting’ Abstract; and Hailiang Du ‘Data assimilation for imperfect models’ Abstract.
