MPO Seminar Series
FALL SEMESTER 2009, 3PM SLAB

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 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 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


MPO Seminar Series
SPRING SEMESTER 2009, 3PM SLAB

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 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 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

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


MPO Seminar Series
FALL SEMESTER 2008, 3PM SLAB

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 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


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 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

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

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 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

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

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 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

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