This session aims at bringing together contributions from the growing interface between the Earth science, mathematical, and theoretical physics communities. Our goal is to stimulate the interaction among scientists from these and related disciplines interested in solving environmental and geoscientific challenges. Considering the urgency of the ongoing climate crisis, such challenges refer, for example, to the theoretical understanding of the climate and its subsystems as a highly non-linear, chaotic system, the improvement of numerical modelling via both theory-informed and data-driven methods, the search for new data analysis methods, and the quantification of different types of impacts of global warming.

Specific topics include: Partial differential equations, numerical methods, extreme events, statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, dynamical systems theory, large deviation theory, response theory, tipping points, model reduction techniques, waves in oceans and atmosphere, model uncertainty and ensemble design, stochastic processes, parametrisations, data assimilation, and machine learning. We invite contributions both related to specific applications as well as more speculative and theoretical investigations. We particularly encourage early career researchers to present their interdisciplinary work in this session.

Confirmed solicited speakers: Ulrike Feudel (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany)