THE NCAR ADVANCED STUDY PROGRAM

Documentation in Support of the 2001 Review

Submitted to the National Science Foundation, May 2001

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Contents

• Contents
• EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
• I. Introduction and Context
• A. The NCAR context
• The present roles of the ASP at NCAR^I.3
• II. Education, Training, and Knowledge Transfer
• A. The Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
• 1. Nature and objectives of the program
• 2. Characteristics of ASP postdoctoral fellows
• 3. The research areas of ASP postdoctoral fellows
• 4. Present positions of former postdoctoral fellows
• 5. Mentoring activities for the postdoctoral fellows
• 6. Survey results
• 7. Plans for the future
• B. The ASP Graduate Fellowship Program
• C. The Summer Colloquium Series
• Workshops and other activities of the Geophysical Turbulence Program
• 1. Workshop on Observations, Experiments, and LES: A Triad for Geophysical Turbulence Studies (1998)
• 2. Symposium on Developments in Geophysical Turbulence (1998)
• 3. GTP Workshop on Small-Scale Turbulence (1999)
• 4. Workshop on Mixing and Reactive Turbulence (1999)
• 5. Turbulence and the Air-Sea Interface (2000)
• 6. Fine-Scale Turbulence and Cloud Microphysics (2000)
• 7. Other educational activities of GTP
• E. The ASP Visitor Program
• 1. History and purpose
• 2. The Thompson Lectures
• F. Other educational activities
• G. Plans for the future
• 1. A Senior Visitor Program
• 2. A Sabbatical Exchange Program
• 3. Short-Colloquium Series
• 4. Expanded ASP role with the NCAR Scientist Assembly
• 5. Increasing role with early-career scientists
• III. Research and Interdisciplinary Programs
• A. The Geophysical Turbulence Program
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Examples of research results
• 3. Future plans
• Research accomplishments of recent Postdoctoral Fellows
• IV. Responses to the 1997 Review
• V. Impact of Center Funding
• VI. Financial Information
• APPENDICES:

  Appendix A: ASP Publications, 1998-2000
  Appendix B: Publications Relevant to GTP
  Appendix C: ASP Personnel
  Appendix D: ASP Visitors, 1998-2000
  Appendix E: GTP Visitors, 1998-2000
  Appendix F: Management Information
 

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