Author: bliankinshtein

I just made public my GitHub repository with a Matlab library for RRTMG, which I had announced here and had stored on Guillimin.

https://github.com/blyankinshtein/rrtmg_libraries

The library contains functions to run both RRTMG Longwave and Shortwave, by creating tape-files from ERA-Interim data and some standard atmospheric profiles.

Any questions are welcome. Enjoy!

Over the last six months, I have been using a trajectory model LAGRANTO by ETH Zurich. This model offers very broad functionality that can be used in various research problems. I personally found it extremely helpful to study the motion of Arctic air masses and the modification of their characteristics.

Here is a small example of using LAGRANTO in the network of our department:
https://github.com/blyankinshtein/lagranto_tutorial
On July 30 at 2.30 pm I will be giving a workshop as a part CAOS Student Workshop series. We will briefly discuss the science behind the model, its comparison with the HYSPLIT trajectory model and go through some of its capabilities. In the end, there will be a short tutorial where you will try to run the model and manipulate the trajectories to identify warm conveyor belts.

Here is the abstract: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jnlmk80cjqd84wq/Introduction%20to%20LAGRANTO.pdf
Here is the presentation slides: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zi89mut25mxcjok/LAGRANTO%20workshop.pdf?dl=0

See you there,
Natalia Bliankinshtein

Today, July 19 at 2.30pm, I am giving a tutorial on Git and GitHub as a part of Student Workshop Series by the CAOS. Everybody in the Department is invited.
Here is the link to the presentation that you will be needing:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/grd6q3f4y847s7b/Git%20workshop.pdf?dl=0
And here is the abstract:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5fqv4ef0buxnym8/Introduction%20to%20Git%20and%20GitHub.pdf?dl=0

GitHub has been an extremely useful tool for me over the two years of my
studies in the Department, so I encourage everyone to start using it, for the safety of your research and results.

See you there,
Natalia Bliankinshtein

The summer school was held on July 17-21 in Alliston ON, there were 43 graduate students and postdocs from across Canada and the US working on Arctic-related research.
Here is the site of the summer school with all the presentation slides available:
http://www.candac.ca/create/ss2017/summerschool2017.html

The speakers included:

• Kerri Pratt: Arctic halogen and aerosol chemistry
• Rachel Chang: Arctic aerosols – sources and composition, interactions with clouds and radiation; Land-atmosphere carbon exchange in Alaska
• Alexandra Jahn: Climate modeling; Projections of 21st century Arctic sea ice loss; CMIP6
• Francis Zwiers: Detection and attribution of climate change
• Amir Aliabadi: Transport implications for Arctic air quality and meteorology
• Steve Howell: Sea ice: physical properties, trends and feedbacks; sea ice observations
• Kent Moore: Changing Arctic atmosphere and impact of sea ice retreat on ocean and atmosphere; Midwinter warmings at the North Pole
• Paul Kushner: North2Warm initiative
• Claude Duguay: Lake ice modeling and observations; Lake-atmosphere interactions
• Michael Sigmond: Seasonal forecasts of sea ice; Recent trends in Antarctic sea ice
• Lukas Arenson: Permafrost engineering
• Dan Falk: Communicating science

All the students’ posters will also be available at the web-page soon.
In addition to all the educative and research presentation, a Career Panel was held, that provided some helpful insights about job search in academia/industry/government. Although no session is so far announced for the next year, if it happens, I highly recommend to attend.
If you have some question about the presentations, Kevin and I will be happy to tell you more.