Dear Susanne and Guido,
unfortunately I cannot make it to the meeting, but I would appreciate if you
decide to organize a special publication on this subject, to be informed. I
might have something along these lines ...
Many thanks,
have a good meeting,
Sandra
On 2007-01-11, at 12:15, Susanne Buiter wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> We would like to bring the following session at EGU 2007 to your
> attention and encourage you to submit an abstract:
>
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> TS 1.1 THE STRENGTHS AND CHALLENGES OF ANALOGUE AND NUMERICAL MODELS
> (co-listed in GD)
>
> EGU General Assembly in Vienna (Austria), 15-20 April 2007.
>
> DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: 15 JANUARY 2007
> Also note the deadline for pre-registration: 31 March 2007
> **********************************************************************
>
> Analogue and numerical modelling techniques are being utilised more
> extensively in recent years to study processes in Earth's crust and
> mantle. The modelling methods are partly overlapping and partly of a
> complementary nature whereby both have their strengths and weaknesses.
> Analogue, or physical, models have traditionally been strong in
> visualising the mechanical behaviour of processes in 3D, but remain
> limited in their ability to quantify observables or use more complicated
> material rheologies. These can be better achieved by numerical models,
> but their 3D resolution is only improving slowly. The aim of this
> session is to focus on analogue and numerical models and provide room
> for the discussion of their limitations, challenges and roles in the
> near future.
>
> We welcome contributions that discuss modelling and visualisation
> techniques, use models to quantify Earth behaviour, compare analogue and
> numerical model results to each other and/or to examples from nature, on
> the scale of the crust to the mantle, for both 2D and 3D.
>
> Keynote speakers:
> Stephan Sobolev (GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Germany)
> Bruno Vendeville (Lille University, France)
>
> Convenors:
> Susanne Buiter (NGU, Norway) and Guido Schreurs (University of Bern)
>
> Information and guidelines regarding abstract format and submission are
> available on the EGU General Assembly Web Site:
> http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2007
>
>
> We look forward to seeing you in Vienna!
>
> Susanne Buiter: [log in to unmask]
> Guido Schreurs: [log in to unmask]
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