MAXIMUM ENTROPY PRODUCTION IN THE EARTH SYSTEM

Max-Planck-Institut für Biogeochemie, Jena, Germany 10 - 11 May 2007

 THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2007 --- FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2007
  
 chair: Axel Kleidon
  
09:00 - 09:10Welcome and Introduction
09:10 - 09:30Roderick Dewar, INRA, France: "Update on MEP theory"
09:30 - 10:00Robert Niven, Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark: “Jaynes' MaxEnt, MEP, generalized free energy measures and system analysis”
  
10:00 - 10:30Coffee Break
  
 chair: Roderick Dewar
  
10:30 - 11:00David Noone, Univ. Colorado, USA: "Entropy production by heat transport in simulations of large-scale atmospheric turbulence"
11:00 - 11:30Basil Davis, Univ. Newcastle, UK: "Orbital and Solar forcing of the Earth's latitudinal temperature gradient by Maximum Entropy Production"
11:30 - 12:00Axel Kleidon, MPI Biogeochemistry, Germany: "Heat storage, variability, and Maximum Entropy Production"
12:00 - 12:30Discussion
  
12:30 - 15:00Lunch Break, coffee starting at 14:30
  
14:00 - 15:00optional: Institute Colloquium: Dennis Baldocchi, UC Berkeley, USA: “ The Science and Ecology of Carbon Offsets: Can Carbon Indulgences Mitigate Global Warming?”
  
 chair: Stan Schymanski
  
15:00 - 15:30Yangang Liu, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA: "Clouds, climate and entropy principles"
15:30 - 16:00Peter Cox, Univ. Exeter, UK: "Application of MEP principles to cloud cover"
16:00 - 16:30Graham Farquhar, AUS: “Maximum entropy production, cloud feedback and climate change”
16:30 - 17:00Discussion
19:00Meet at Hotel “Schwarzer Bär” to walk to the restaurant.
19:30Conference Dinner (Landgrafen restaurant, see separate information (link)
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