Wed Jan 16

Some dynamical problems related to the poleward expansion of the atmospheric circulation"
Isaac Held
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

Thu Jan 17, 10:00-11:00 AM

Targeted Observation for Improving Tropical Cyclone Predictability — DOTSTAR, TH08, TCS-08, and T-PARC
Dr. Chun-Chieh Wu
Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences
National Taiwan University

Wed Jan 23

Student Seminars
Turbulent flow regimes behind a coastal cape, Magaldi
Mixing and entrainment in a 2D gravity current from a high-order non-hydrostatic spectral element model and the impact of temporal variability in forcing, Matt

Wed Jan 30

The Mid-Summer Drought and Atlantic Summer Klymutt (ASK)
Brian Mapes, RSMAS/MPO

Wed Feb 6

Two types of warm pools, an inertial oscillator and hybrid modeling of tropical intraseasonal variability
Peter J. Webster
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Georgia Institute of Technology

Wed Feb 13

Student Seminars
Cloud and Precipitation Studies Using a Millimeter-Wavelength Radar: A Florida Everglades Experiment
Shaunna Donaher

Performance of the 2nd Order Turbulence Closures in the Red Sea overflow simulations
Mehmet Ilicak

Cloud Fraction Climatology in South-East Pacific
Virendra Ghate

Tue Feb 19

Multivariate Spatial Statistics
Prof. Donald E. Meyers
University of Arizona

Wed Feb 20

Have Humans Affected Atlantic Hurricane Climate?
Tom Knutson
GFDL

Mon Feb 25, 10:30am

PhD Defense: The Structure of the Agulhas Current System During the Agulhas Undercurrent Experiment
Tania Gil duarte Casal

Mon Feb 25, 1:30pm

A stochastic dynamical systems view of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation
Dr. Henk Dijkstra
Utrecht University

Wed Feb 27, 12pm

Global Inter-Annual Trends and Amplitude Modulations of the Sea Surface Height Anomaly from the TOPEX/JASon-1 Altimeters
Dr. Paulo Polito
Prof. at Universidade de Sao Paulo

Wed Feb 27

Student Seminars
The North Brazil Current Rings analyzed from 14 years of altimetry
Guilherme Castelao

Modulation of hurricane-induced mixed layer cooling in Gulf of Mexico's mesoscale oceanic eddies
Benjamin Jaimes

Process-oriented numerical simulations of the Mississippi River plume
Rafael Schiller

Fri Feb 29, 1:30pm, AOML Conference Room, 1st Floor

Formation and modification of Antarctic Intermediate Water in the Southeast Pacific Ocean
Dr. Bernadette Sloyan
CSIRO, Hobart, Australia

Wed Mar 5

Student Seminars
Identifying the Inner-Core Characteristics of Hurricane Noel (2007) via the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, the Aerosonde
Guy Cascella

On structure and intensity of Hurricane Bret (1999)
Alexander Lowag

The Vertical Structure of Tangential Winds in Tropical Cyclones: Observations, Theory, and Modeling
Daniel Stern

Wed Mar 12

Water mass exchange between the NE Atlantic and Nordic seas: A Lagrangian Perspective
Tom Rossby
University of Rhode Island

Thu Mar 13, 2:30pm

Circulation Regimes: Bridging Weather and Climate Predictability Promises and Challenges
David M. Straus
George Mason University and Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies

Fri Mar 14, 10am

Thesis Defense
Pallav Ray
RSMAS/MPO

Wed Mar 19

Rain, smoke & mirrors — new insights and current perspectives on shallow cumulus convection
Bjorn Stevens
UCLA

Thu Mar 20, 10:30am

Objective evaluation of observation networks in the coastal ocean by ensemble methods
Matthieu Le Henaff
LEGOS (Laboratoire d' Etudes en Geophysique et Oceanographie Spatiales), Toulouse, France

Wed Mar 26

Student Seminars
Cloud droplet number concentration variability over the Southeast Pacific Stratocumulus region
David Painemal

Tropical bimodal peak in mid-level layer clouds observed by CloudSat
Emily Riley

A Case Study of Decoupling Stratocumulus
Xue Zheng

Fri Mar 28, 3:15pm

Atmospheric Variability over the SE Pacific: from the diurnal cycle to > climate change
Dr. Rene Garreaud
Universidad de Chile

Wed Apr 2

Open

April 9, 4pm

Gulf of Mexico Loop Current Mechanical Energy and Vorticity Response to a Tropical Cyclone
Eric Uhlhorn
MPO

Thu Apr 10, Hurricane Seminar Series, 10:30am

Chasing Hurricanes in Coastal Sediments: Exploring the Patterns, Forcing, and Consequences of Tropical Cyclone Activity Over the Last Several Millennia
Jeff Donnelly
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Wed Apr 16

Student Seminars
Simulated 2xCO2 Climate Response of the Equatorial Pacific in the GFDL CM2.1 Model: The Role of Ocean Dynamics
Pedro DiNezio

Stochastically forced model El Niño — Southern Oscillation
Atul Kapur

Multi-decadal variability in the northern Hadley cell over the last 150 years
Damianos Mantsis

Thu Apr 17, 2:30pm

Diagnosis of the causes of the low frequency surface climate variability in the latter half of the 20th century
Professor Edwin K. Schneider
George Mason University/COLA

Wed Apr 23

Student Seminars
Cross-shelf nutrient pulses onto the Florida reef crest
Lew Gramer

Mass Transport and Internal Flow Patterns at Windward Passage
Ryan Smith

Wed May 7

What happened 8200 years ago and why you should care
Gavin Schmidt
NASA GISS

Thu May 8, 9:30am–12:30pm, Auditorium

Climate change projections: Communicating uncertainty without losing the message
Gavin Schmidt, NASA GISS
Amy Clement, RSMAS
Kenny Broad, RSMAS
Ken Goodman, UM Ethics Program

Mon May 12, 2:00pm CIMAS Conference Room

Toward a unified WRF data assimilation system: WRFDA
Dr. Hans Huang
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado

Wed May 14

Large-Scale Effects of African Aerosol on Precipitation of the Atlantic Marine ITCZ and the West African Monsoon
Dr. Jingfeng Huang
RSMAS/MPO

Wed Aug 29

The ocean's response to Hurricane Frances and its implications for drag coefficient parameterization at high wind speeds
Dr. Sarah Zedler
Scripps, UCSD

Thu Sep 20, 3:00pm MSC343

The Structure of the Antarctic Slope Front
Dr. Peter Baines
University of Melbourne

Fri Sep 21, 10:30am SLAB

Decadal variability in rainfall and the Hadley circulation
Dr Peter Baines
University of Melbourne

Wed Sep 26

Long-term variations in tropical cyclone activitu
Gabe Vecchi
GFDL

Fri Oct 12, MS Defense: 10:00am

Effects of Environmental Water Vapor on Tropical Cyclone Structure and Intensity
Derek Ortt
RSMAS/MPO

Wed Oct 17

Idealized Studies of the Intertropical Convergence Zone and the Shallow Meridional Circulation
Dr. David Nolan
RSMAS/MPO

Fri Oct 19, Ph.D Defense: 10:00am SLAB

Environmental and Internal controls of tropical cyclone intensity
Melicie Desflots
RSMAS/MPO

Fri Oct 19, 3:15pm SLAB

Preliminary results from the AMMA SOP-3 experiment (September 2006) : What happens to West African MCSs and Easterly Waves when they leave the continent?
Dr. Frank Roux
"Labaratoire d'Aerologie" at University of Paul Sabatier (Toulouse , France)

Wed Oct 24

Scientific results from the Explorer of the Seas ADCP program: The annual and interannual variability of the Florida Current
Dr. Lisa Beal
RSMAS/MPO

Wed Oct 31, MSC343

Extending targeted observing methods for medium-range forecasts
Dr. Sharan Majumdar
RSMAS/MPO

Wed Nov 7

Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation Interactions: Nature's Way and Man's Way
Dr. Bruce Albrecht
RSMAS/MPO

Wed Nov 14

Water Vapor, Cloud Liquid Water Paths, and Rain Rates over the Northern High Latitude Open Seas
Paquita Zuidema
RSMAS/MPO

Wed Nov 28

Turbulence Models for Shear and Internal Wave-Driven Mixing: A Progress Report
Harmut Peters
RSMAS/MPO

Wed Dec 5

The Turbulent Oscillator: A Mechanism of Low-Frequency Variability of the Wind-Driven Ocean Gyres
Dr. Pavel Berloff
Associate Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Tue Jan 9

Stable and Scalable Spectral Element Methods for Incompressible Flows
Paul Fischer
Argonne National Laboratory

Wed Jan 10, MSC 343 - 11AM

Aerosols, Clouds, and Precipitation
Bill Cotton
Colorado State University

Thu Jan 11, 11AM

Towards Rapid Environmental Assessment in The Northern Adriatic
Simona Simoncelli, Ph.D. student
Department of Environmental Science
University of Bologna

Wed Jan 17, MSC343

On global cloud liquid water contents
Dr. Akos Horvath
MPO

Wed Jan 24

Hurricane structure and intensity change : effects of wind shear and air-sea interaction
Melicie Desflots
MPO

Wed Jan 31

Decadal Modulation of ENSO
Dr. Rob Burgman
MPO

Wed Feb 7

Geometrical Methods for Synthesizing Anisotropic Covariances for Assimilation
R. James Purser
SAIC and NOAA NCEP/EMC

Wed Feb 14

Diagnosing cloud feedbacks in GCMs
Dr. Ping Zhu
FIU

Wed Feb 21

MPO Student Seminars
Castelao, Parks, Schiler (MPO)

Wed Mar 7

MPO Student Seminars
Do Gravity Waves Transport Angular Momentum Away From Tropical Cyclones?
Yumin Moon

The Planetary Boundary Layer Structure of the North American Monsoon and the Role of Land-Atmosphere Interactions as Depicted in Models and Observations
Patrick Kelly

The Vertical Structure of Axisymmetric Tangential Winds in Tropical Cyclones: Theory vs. Observation
Daniel Stern

Wed Mar 14

Spring Break

Wed Mar 21

Climate Change: Moonshine, Millions of Models, and Billions of Data. New Ways to Sort Fact from Fiction
Bruce Wielicki
NASA-Langley Research Center

Wed Mar 28

MPO Student Seminars
Dynamical characteristics of the effective oceanic thermal layer and vertical structure in the Loop Current System
Benjamin Jaimes

Effects of Environmental Water Vapor on the Rainband Structures of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
Derek Ortt

Environmental Influences on Structural and Intensity Changes of Hurricane Bret (1999)
Alexander Lowag

Thu Apr 5, 10:00 am

Identification of Human-Induced Changes in Atmospheric Moisture Content
Dr. Benjamin D. Santer
Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Mon Apr 9, 12:00 pm

On the Distribution of Subsidence in the Hurricane Ey
Dr. Wayne H. Schubert
Department of Atmospheric Science
Colorado State University

Mon Apr 9, 3:00 pm, MSC343

Recent Progresses in Storm-scale Simulation, NWP and Data Assimilation
Prof. Ming Xue
Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms and School of Meteorology
University of Oklahoma, Norman OK

Wed Apr 11, 2:30pm MSC343

History of tropical meteorology
Richard Johnson
CSU

Thu Apr 12, 1:00pm

The impact of spaceborne Doppler radar observations on the simulation of a tropical cyclone
William Lewis
University of Wisconsin – Madison

Wed Apr 18, MSC 343

MPO Student Seminar: Diurnal warming at the ocean surface
Chelle Gentemann

Fri Apr 20, MSC 343

Dust and vapor cloud the view
Richard Allen

Mon Apr 23

Surface Circulation and Dispersion in the Mediterranean as Deduced from Lagrangian Drifters
Pierre Marie Poulain
Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS)
Trieste, Italy

Tue Apr 24, Rosenstiel Award - Auditorium, 1pm

Bio-physical interactions on interannual to millennial timescales
Axel Timmermann
International Pacific Research Center School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
University of Hawaii

Wed Apr 25, 3pm

Dynamics of the ice-ages: what can computer models tell us?
Axel Timmermann
International Pacific Research Center School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
University of Hawaii

Wed May 2

MPO Student Seminars
On the initiation of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO)
Pallav Ray

Fri May 4, 10:30-11:30 am

MPO Seminar
Revisiting Hurricane Pressure-Wind Relationships and the Quality of the Data Base
Greg Holland
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Boulder, Colorado

Wed May 9

MPO PhD Defense: Diurnal Warming at the Ocean Surface
Chelle Gentemann

Wed May 16

MPO Student Seminar: The structure of the Agulhas Current system: a study of mass, heat and salt fluxes during the Agulhas Undercurrent Experiment
Tania Casal

Fri Jun 1

Remotely Sensed Tropical Cyclone Structure
Jeff Hawkins
Naval Research Laboratory
Monterey, CA