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SEMINAR: MPO Special Seminar:Dynamo field campaign, TODAY, at 1:30 p.m, Slab Seminar room, S/A 103

From: Sandrine Apelbaum <sapelbaum@rsmas.miami.edu>
Subject: SEMINAR: MPO Special Seminar:Dynamo field campaign, TODAY, at 1:30 p.m, Slab Seminar room, S/A 103
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 09:10:09 -0400

MPO Seminar


DYNAMO Field Campaign: Overview, Operation, and Preliminary Results (Part II)

October 8th 1:30pm SLAB seminar room



Introduction - Dr. Chidong Zhang

What I learned from 10 days studying the field catalog - Dr. Brian Mapes

Preliminary evaluation of ECMWF forecasts during DYNAMO  - Marcela Ulate

Cloud evolution over Gan using KAZR radar during DYNAMO - David Zermeno

A brief overview of aircraft observations - Dr. Shuyi Chen

Synoptic disturbances and dry air intrusion in DYNAMO - Brandon Kerns

A mysterious convective "explosion" in DYNAMO - Falko Judt

Humidity variability measurements - Dr. Paquita Zuidema

Final Remarks - Dr. Chidong Zhang



Abstract

In Fall 2011 and Spring 2012, a number of MPO faculty, graduate students,
and research scientists participated in a major international field
campaign over the central equatorial Indian Ocean. The field campaign is
part of the research program DYNAMO, standing for Dynamics of the
Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO). Its overarching goal is to advance our
understanding of the physical processes key to convective initiation of
the MJO and to improve our ability of simulating and predicting the MJO.

In the first of the two-seminar series, the MPO DYNAMO group will present
an overview of the DYNAMO field campaign (including its scientific
rationale, objectives, and experimental design), their radar and aircraft
operations, and their general field experience at remote atolls of Diego
Garcia and Addu, Maldives.

The second seminar will cover preliminary results produced by the MPO
DYNAMO group and by other DYNAMO PIs. They include assessment of real-time
prediction skill of the MJO, data analysis of cloud radars, aircraft
measurement, a RSMAS microwave radiometer, soundings, and upper-ocean
observations from ships and moorings.


Sandrine Apelbaum
Meteorology and Physical Oceanography 
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
University of Miami
4600 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, FL 33149-1098
Tel     (305) 421-4057
Fax     (305) 421-4696