MPO Seminar Series
SPRING SEMESTER 2008, 3PM SLAB
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
MPO Seminar Series
FALL SEMESTER 2007, 3PM
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
MPO Seminar Series
SPRING SEMESTER 2007, 3PM
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 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
Fri Jun 1
Remotely Sensed Tropical Cyclone Structure
Jeff Hawkins
Naval Research Laboratory
Monterey, CA
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