Geophysical Flows: Stochastic Modeling, Analysis and Computation  

Jinqiao Duan
Department of Applied Mathematics
Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, IL 60616
www.iit.edu/~duan
E-mail: duan@iit.edu

Geophysical flows largely define the environment in which we live.
A challenge to better understand geophysical phenomena is
due to multiscale variability, nonlinearity, and uncertainty in geophysical
flows. 
The need to take stochastic effects into account for modeling geophysical
flows has 
become widely recognized. Stochastic partial differential equations arise
naturally as  
geophysical flow models. 
I will discuss dynamical issues such as stochastic parameterization,
homogenization, 
synchronization, random boundary conditions, and quantifying the impact of
noise, 
in the context of modeling and simulating geophysical flows. 
The mathematical models here are either quasi-geostrophic equations or
Boussinesq equations.