Achievement

A new course on downscaling (560.701 - Uncertainty Modeling and Downscaling) is being developed for Fall 2009, which builds on foundations taught in the two IGERT courses in academic year 2008-2009. This is a collaborative effort between Charles Meneveau who is working on physics of downscaling and Takeru Igusa who is working on the analysis of uncertainties associated with the downscaling process. It is a completely novel teaching effort, with no existing course material to draw from. The plan is to make use of the variety of downscaling research efforts currently underway at Johns Hopkins, particularly those efforts associated with IGERT Faculty, and to identify tools that are associated with these research investigations. The overall goal is to bring together these diverse tools into a focused and unified course so that the IGERT Trainees and Associates will be able to understand the concepts and mathematics of downscaling.