Climate Workshop urges interdisciplinary paleo simulations, analyses

Reconstruction of the Central Zagros paleo climate and paleo environment

Introduction The study of lake sediments has been widely used in recent decades to identify past climate and environmental changes. Lake basins have significant spatial and temporal patterns and provide valuable evidences of physical and chemical changes. However, in general, the climate of the Holocene period has been more stable and uniform than previous glacial and interglacial periods. How...

Comparative Analyses of Physically Based Snowmelt Models for Climate Simulations

A comparative study of three snow models with different complexities was carried out to assess how a physically detailed snow model can improve snow modeling within general circulation models. The three models were (a) the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Model (SNTHERM), which uses the mixture theory to simulate multiphase water and energy transfer processes in snow l...

Interdisciplinary Workshop on ROCKFALL PROTECTION

ii Preface Compared to other landslide movements, rockfall is an extremely rapid process with long travel distances. When an event occurs, the ability of persons to take evasive actions is almost reduced to zero and the risk of injury or loss of life is high. Damages to buildings and infrastructures are likely as well. In many cases suitable protection measures are thus necessary. The workshop ...

Interdisciplinary Workshop on Periodic Oscillations

Interdisciplinary Monte Carlo Simulations

Biological, linguistic, sociological and economical applications of statistical physics are reviewed here. They have been made on a variety of computers over a dozen years, not only at the NIC computers. A longer description can be found in [1], an emphasis on teaching in [2].