Wed Sep 2

Student Seminars

The North Atlantic Subtropical High and Tropical Cyclone Tracks
Angela Colbert

Challenges in the prediction of tropical cyclones from a synoptic sensitivity and model initial conditions perspective
Will Komaromi

Using TIGGE data to diagnose initial perturbations and their growth for tropical cyclone ensemble forecasts
Munehiko Yamaguchi

Wed Sep 9

Why is there a minimum in projected warming in the tropical North Atlantic Ocean?
Julie Leloup
RSMAS/MPO

Mon Sep 14, MSC343, 3pm

Aerosol effects on intensity of landfalling hurricanes as seen from simulations with WRF model with spectral bin microphysics
Prof. Alexander Khain
The Institute of the Earth Science
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Wed Sep 23

Applied math, high performance computing and physics, the interplay between different disciplines for ocean model development and validation with particular emphasis on high resolution simulation of gravity currents
Mohamed Iskandarani
RSMAS/MPO

Wed Sep 30

On aerosol/precipitation/dynamical processes affecting the radiative impact of boundary layer clouds
Paquita Zuidema
RSMAS/MPO

Wed Oct 7

Student Seminars

Response of the Tropical Pacific to Glacial Conditions Simulated by an Ensemble of Coupled Climate Models
Pedro Dinezio

Measuring environmental favorability for tropical cyclogenesis: Genesis parameters and point-downscaling.
Michael McGauely

Nonlinear Dynamics Perspective in Climate Predictability
Leo Sequeira

Tue Oct 13, 10:30am, SLAB

A key component of ocean circulation and climate: The Agulhas Current System
Lisa Beal
RSMAS/MPO

Wed Oct 14

Springtime in the Intra-Americas Sea: air-sea interactions, low-level jet, and impact on tornadoes and precipitation
Ernesto Munoz

Wed Oct 21

Observations of the Florida and Yucatan Currents from a Caribbean cruise ship
Clement Rousset

Mon Nov 2, 10:30am, SLAB

Large Eddy Simulations of Mixed Layer Instabilities and Sampling Strategies
Tamay Özgökmen
RSMAS/MPO

Wed Nov 4

Student Seminars

A Reanalysis of the 1944-1953 Atlantic Hurricane Seasons: the first decade of Aircraft Reconnaissance, Andrew Hagen

Response of the adiabatic meridional overturning circulation to global warming, Myeonghee Han

Aspect ratio effect on horizontal convection, Weiwei Zhang

Wed Nov 11

Student Seminars

Modulation of obliquity driven climate change by ice, clouds and water vapor feedbacks, Damianos Mantsis
Atul Kapur
Guilherme Castelao

Wed Nov 18

Student Seminars
Shaunna Donaher
Xue Zheng
Yumin Moon

Wed Dec 2

What may have occurred had Hurricane Ivan made landfall near Tampa Bay?
Prof. Robert Weisberg
College of Marine Science
University of South Florida

Wed Dec 9

1-hour Student Seminar
Daniel Stern

Wed Jan 14

Observed changes in the Southern Ocean Winds and associated Impacts on the Oceans Stratification and Circulation: Are there lessons for the role of the Southern Ocean in CO2 uptake and paleo climatic events?
Martin Visbeck
IfM-GEOMAR, Kiel

Wed Jan 21

Hurricane-induced mixed layer cooling in mesoscale oceanic eddies
Benjamin Jaimes
MPO

Wed Jan 28

TBA

Wed Feb 4

1-hour Student Seminar
Turbulence Structure of Continental Boundary Layer Stratocumulus Cloud
Virendra Ghate
MPO

Wed Feb 11

Oceanic Response to Tropical Cyclones: Implications for Intensity Change
Nick Shay
MPO

Wed Feb 18

An overview of the emerging dynamical understanding of concentric eyewalls in hurricanes
Chris Rozoff
University of Wisconsin

Wed Feb 25

Monte carlo methods for two problems in atmospheric radiative transfer
Dr. Robert Pincus
University of Colorado and NOAA

Wed Mar 4

Citation Made Easy
Brian Mapes
MPO

Wed Mar 11

Hurricanes and Global Warming: Has There Been a Doubling of the Number of Cyclones in the Last Century?
Chris Landsea
National Hurricane Center

Wed Apr 1

Student Seminars
Designing regional model experiments to explain seasonal Atlantic High variations, Patrick Kelly
The dynamic response of the hurricane wind field to spiral rainband heating, Yumin Moon
A comparison of model-simulated vs. observed MOC variability at 26.5°N, Benjamin Shaw

Wed Apr 8

Convectively coupled gravity waves in the tropics: Why do most waves travel westward?
Dr. Stefan Tulich
University of Colorado and NCAR

Wed Apr 15

The maximum intensity of numerically simulated tropical cyclones
George Bryan
NCAR

Thu Apr 16, SLAB, 3pm

The Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Model (OLAM): A versatile numerical simulation model for studying weather, micrometeorology, and climate
Dr. Robert Walko
Duke University

Wed Apr 22

Fri Apr 24, MSC 343, 11am

The Attribution of the Causes of Current Decadal Droughts
Peter George Baines, University of Melbourne, Australia

Wed Apr 29

Student Seminars
Multi-wavelength Radar Observations of Tropical Cyclone Rainbands Over South Florida, Shaunna Donaher
Microphysical and radiative variability of the Stratocumulus cloud deck over the Southeast Pacific, David Painemal
Observations from Aircraft of Aerosol-Cloud-Drizzle Variability in Coastal Marine Stratocumulus, Xue Zheng

Wed May 6

Student Seminars
Validation of Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) Data Using GPS Dropsondes in Tropical Cyclone Environments, Eddy Hildebrand
Toward Multi-model Ensembles and Better Understanding of Uncertainties in Tropical Cyclone Forecasts, Derek Ortt

Tue May 12, MSC343, 3pm

CABARET in the ocean gyres: a novel high-resolution computational method for fluid mechanics
S.A. Karabasov
Royal Society University Research Fellow
Department of Engineering University of Cambridge

Wed May 13

Moist Convection and Mesoscale Predictability
Rich Rotunno
NCAR

Fri May 15 MSC343, 11am

Observed and simulated response of the equatorial Pacific to global warming
Kris Karnauskas
Columbia University/LDEO

Wed Aug 27, 10AM

MS Thesis Defense: Environmental Influences on Rapid Intensity Changes in Tropical Cyclones — A Case Study
Alexander Lowag
MPO

Wed Sep 15, 2:00pm

MS Thesis Defense: Climate Response of the Equatorial Pacific to Global Warming
Pedro DiNezio
MPO

Wed Sep 24, MSC 343

Multiple zonal jets in the oceans: dynamics and kinematics
Igor Kamenkovich
MPO

Wed Oct 1

Monitoring the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation: Results from the RAPID-MOC Array at 26.5° N
Bill Johns
MPO

Wed Oct 8

Multi-Model Ensemble ENSO Prediction with three global coupled models
Ben Kirtman
MPO

Wed Oct 15

Large Eddy Simulation of Mixing in Stratified Turbulent Flows
Tamay Ozgokmen
MPO

Wed Oct 22

Student Seminars
Convectively-generated PV and Vortex Rossby Waves in Hurricanes Rita and Katrina (2005), Falko Judt
Simulated multi-decadal variability in the mean meridional circulation over the 20th century, Damianos Mantsis

Wed Oct 29

TBA

Wed Nov 5

Turbulent coherent structures behind capes
Marcello Magaldi
MPO

Wed Nov 12

The production and dissipation of compensated thermohaline variance by mesoscale stirring
Shafer Smith
Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University

Mon Nov 17, 3:00pm

MS Defense: Role of Stochastic Forcing in ENSO variability in a Coupled GCM
Atul Kapur
MPO

Wed Nov 19

Big trouble with little clouds: How shallow convection leads to divergent climate responses
Brian Medeiros
Dept. of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences, UCLA

Thu Nov 20, 9:00am

Observing Eddy Variability Using High-Frequency (HF) Radar in the Straits of Florida
Andrew Brad Parks
MPO

Mon Nov 24, 1pm

Incorporating Model Quality Information in Climate Change Detection and Attribution Studies
Ben Santer
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Mon Nov 24, 3:00pm

How to model mixing in overflows
Mehmet Ilicak
MPO

Wed Dec 3

Student Seminars
Seasonal and inter-annual variability of the North Brazil Current Rings, Guilherme Castelão
Air-Sea Coupling-Induced Asymmetry in HUrricane Boundary Layer and Surface Fluxes, Chiaying Lee
Climate Noise and Climate Predictability, Leo Siqueira

Tue Dec 9, MSC343, 3pm

Student Seminars
Impact of shelf and offshore processes on the transport of Mississippi River waters, Rafael Schiller
Evaluating the Vertical Structure of Tangential Winds in Tropical Cyclones Simulations: Comparison to Observations and Theory, Daniel Stern
Model sensitivity to mixing study, Weiwei Zhang

Wed Dec 17

The impact of temporal variability in forcing on mixing and entrainment in a 2D gravity current from a high-order non-hydrostatic spectral element model
Silvia Matt
MPO

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 June 25

Modelling of the exchanges between a convective gyre and a boundary current: application to the Greenland Sea
Dr. Clement Rousset
RSMAS/MPO