2014
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December 11, 2014 - 3:30pm
AOSC Student Seminar
Contact: Tim Canty
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December 4, 2014 - 3:30pm
Forecasting Severe Weather For The Capital Weather Gang
Dr. Jeffrey Halverson
University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
[ Abstract ]
Contact: William Miller
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November 20, 2014 - 3:30pm
Can we use GRACE, Argo, altimetry, and tide gauges to constrain estimates of deep ocean warming?
Dr. Eric Leuliette
NOAA NESDIS
[ Abstract ]
Contact: Eugenia Kalnay
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November 13, 2014 - 3:30pm
Mass Changes of Polar Ice Sheets and Sea Ice in a Changing Climate
Dr. Jay Zwally
ESSIC-University of Maryland, NASA Goddard, Cryospheric Science Branch
Contact: Derrick Lampkin
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November 6, 2014 - 3:30pm
Progress in Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere
Dr. Ludovic Brucker
NASA Goddard, Cryospheric Science Branch
[ Abstract ]
Contact: Derrick Lampkin
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October 30, 2014 - 3:30pm
Remote Sensing of Ice-Sheet Margins
Dr. Kelly Brunt
ESSIC-University of Maryland, NASA Goddard, Cryospheric Science Branch
[ Abstract ]
Contact: Derrick Lampkin
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October 23, 2014 - 3:30pm
Slip Slidin' Away: Glaciers and Ice Sheets in a changing climate
Sridhar Anandakrishnan
Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geoscience
[ Abstract ]
Contact: Derrick Lampkin
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October 16, 2014 - 3:30pm
Towards Multisensor Snow Assimilation: A Simultaneous Radiometric and Gravimetric Framework
Dr. Barton Forman
University of Maryland, Civil and Environmental Engineering
[ Abstract ]
Contact: Derrick Lampkin
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October 9, 2014 - 5:00pm
*** Distinguished Lecture ***
Location: CSIC Room 1115
Reception 4:00 PM
The challenges for food, water, and energy security in the face of climate change and loss of biodiversity.
Dr. Robert Watson
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change, University of East Anglia
[ Abstract | Presentation ]
Contact: Catherine Stephens
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October 2, 2014 - 3:30pm
Understanding Greenland's Coupled Ice Sheet-Atmosphere-Ocean System: Recent Progress
Dr. Gordon Hamilton
University of Maine, Climate Change Institute
[ Abstract ]
Contact: Derrick Lampkin
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September 25, 2014 - 3:30pm
Arctic Freshwater Export: Status, Mechanisms, and Prospects
Dr. Tom Haine
Johns Hopkins University
[ Abstract ]
Contact: Kayo Ide
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September 18, 2014 - 3:30pm
Efficiency Space: A Framework for Evaluating Joint Evaporation and Runoff Behavior
Dr. Randy Koster
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
[ Abstract ]
Contact: Rachel Pinker
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September 11, 2014 - 3:30pm
Additive and Multiplicative Incremental 4DVAR for Mixed Gaussian and Lognormal Distribution Errors
Dr. Steven Fletcher
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Colorado State University
[ Abstract ]
Contact: Daryl Kleist
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September 4, 2014 - 3:30pm
New satellite measurements related to plant physiological functioning
Dr. Joanna Joiner
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
[ Abstract ]
Contact: Russell Dickerson
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2012
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November 29, 2012
Tele-connecting local consumption to global land use and water consumption
Professor Klaus Hubacek
University of Maryland
[ Abstract | Presentation ]
Contact: Eugenia Kalnay
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November 15, 2012
Research and data management at the: NODC Ocean Climate Laboratory and World Dada Center for Oceanography
Dr. Sydney Levitus
NOAA/NESDIS National Oceanographic Data Center
[ Abstract | Presentation ]
Contact: Jim Carton
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November 12, 2012 - 11:00am
*** Note the Date and Time ***
*** Location: CSS3400 ***
A Fuel Injected Outlet Glacier: Melt Water Infiltration from Saturated Shear Margins
Dr. Derrick Lampkin
Pennsylvania State University
Contact: Jim Carton
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November 8, 2012
NASA Earth Sciences: activities and opportunities
Dr. Peter Hildebrand
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Contact: Jim Carton
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November 1, 2012
*** CANCELLED due to Storm Sandy ***
CGILS: First Results From an International Project to Understand Cloud-Climate Feedbacks in General Circulation Models
Professor Minghua Zhang
Stony Brook University
Contact: Ning Zeng
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October 25, 2012
Late Holocene Sea Level Rise: History, Processes, Future
Professor Michael Kearney
University of Maryland
[ Abstract ]
Contact: Eugenia Kalnay
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October 18, 2012
Community Radiative Transfer Model Development and Applications
Dr. Quanhua (Mark) Liu
University of Maryland
[ Abstract ]
Contact: Eugenia Kalnay
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October 11, 2012
*** Bob Hudson Symposium ***
TBA
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October 8, 2012 - 2:00pm
*** Note the Date and Time ***
*** Location: CSS3400 ***
Physical underpinnings of oceanic phytoplankton blooms
Dr. Amala Mahadevan
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Contact: Jim Carton
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October 4, 2012
Changes in the ventilation of the southern oceans due to stratospheric ozone depletion
Professor Darryn Waugh
Johns Hopkins University
[ Abstract ]
Contact: Kayo Ide
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September 27, 2012
Hot Air in the Forest Primeval
Professor Bill Brune
Pennsylvania State University
[ Abstract ]
Contact: Da-Lin Zhang
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September 20, 2012
Earth Science Research at NASA Langley Research Center
Dr. Bruce Doddridge
NASA Langley Research Center
[ Abstract ]
Contact: Russ Dickerson/Jim Carton
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September 13, 2012
*** AOSC Meeting ***
AOSC Meeting of the Whole
Professor Jim Carton
University of Maryland
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August 30, 2012
*** Special NOAA Seminar ***
*** Special Reception at 3pm ***
An Overview of the Current and Future NCEP Operational Modeling Suite
Dr. William Lapenta
Acting Director
NOAA/NCEP Environmental Modeling Center
[ Abstract ]
Contact: Jim Carton
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May 10, 2012
*** Alumnus Seminar ***
Multi-faceted forced variability of the South Asian summer monsoon
Dr. Massimo Bollasina
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Contact: Sumant Nigam
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May 3, 2012
*** Distinguished Alumnus Seminar ***
Shallow-water Remote Sensing: The Unsolved Problem of Atmospheric Correction
Dr. Curtis Mobley
Sequoia Scientific, Inc.
[ Abstract ]
Contact: Ragu Murtugudde
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April 26, 2012
A Significant Advance in Calculating EOFs from Very Large Data Sets
Dr. Huug van den Dool
NOAA/NCEP Climate Prediction Center
[ Abstract | Presentation ]
Contact: Eugenia Kalnay
|
April 19, 2012
Air Quality Forecasting basics and experiences
Dr. Pius Lee
NOAA Air Resources Laboratory
Contact: Russ Dickerson
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April 12, 2012
*** Alumnus Seminar ***
A Reanalysis for Mars: Insights into the Weather and Predictability of the Red Planet
Dr. Steven Greybush
University of Maryland
Contact: Eugenia Kalnay
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April 5, 2012
Assimilation of CO2 measurements from an AIRS channel with peak sensitivity in the mid- and lower-troposphere
Dr. Andrew Tangborn
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
[ Abstract ]
Contact: Eugenia Kalnay
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March 29, 2012 - 6:00pm
*** Rasmusson Lecture ***
Why is Global Warming Polarizing?
Professor George Philander
Princeton University
[ Abstract ]
Contact: Sumant Nigam
|
March 15, 2012
*** Faculty Seminar ***
The Impact of Tropospheric Aerosols, Volcanoes, and Ocean Circulation on Global Climate
Professor Ross Salawitch
University of Maryland
[ Abstract ]
Contact: Russ Dickerson
|
March 8, 2012
Chaotic Advection in a Three-dimensional, Idealized Ocean Eddy
Dr. Larry Pratt
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Contact: Kayo Ide
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March 1, 2012
How important is the Tibetan Plateau to China and global weather, environment, and climate systems?
Dr. Chungu Lu
National Science Foundation
[ Abstract ]
Contact: Zhanqing Li
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February 23, 2012
A tale of two winter storms: Dec 26, 2010 and Jan 26, 2011
Mr. Steven Zubrick
National Weather Service Sterling
[ Abstract ]
Contact: Scott Rudlosky
|
February 16, 2012
*** Faculty Seminar ***
Big History: Earth, Life, and Sustainability
Professor Raghuram Murtugudde
University of Maryland
[ Presentation ]
Contact: Tony Busalacchi
|
February 9, 2012
Nucleation, Growth, and Transformation of Atmospheric Aerosols: Recent Progress and Challenges
Professor Renyi Zhang
Holder of Harold J. Haynes Endowed Chair
Texas A&M University
Contact: Zhanqing Li
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February 2, 2012
Tales from my sabbatical: a hydrologist with a mid-life crisis playing multi-lateral development banking in Washington
Professor Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm
Florida International University
Contact: Tony Busalacchi
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2011
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December 1, 2011
Impact of Land Use, Climate Variability, and Watershed Restoration on Nitrogen Dynamics
Professor Sujay Kaushal
Universiy of Maryland
ESSIC & Geology
[ Abstract ]
Contact: Raghu Murtugudde
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November 17, 2011
The Structure of the LaGrange, Wyoming Tornado Observed during VORTEX2
Dr. Roger Wakimoto
Director
National Center for Atmospheric Research
[ Abstract ]
Contact: Kayo Ide
|
November 10, 2011
How Well Do We Know Recent Climate Trends at the Tropical Tropopause?
Dr. James Wang
NOAA Air Resources Laboratory
[ Abstract ]
Contact: Phil Arkin
|
November 3, 2011
Part I - Sea Surface Temperature for Numerical Weather Prediction.
Part II - U. S. Global Change Research Program Strategic Plan.
Professor David Halpern
NASA Headquarters
University of Maryland
[ Abstract | Presentation ]
Contact: Rachel Pinker
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October 20, 2011
*** Alumna Seminar ***
Estimation of Surface Carbon Fluxes with an Advanced Data Assimilation Methodology
Dr. Ji-Sun Kang
Ph.D. AOSC 2009
Advisor: Eugenia Kalnay
University of Maryland
[ Abstract | Presentation ]
Contact: Eugenia Kalnay
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October 13, 2011
*** Faculty Seminar ***
Long-term and Global Impact of Aerosols on Cloud and Precipitation
Professor Zhanqing Li
Universiy of Maryland
[ Abstract ]
Contact: Da-Lin Zhang
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October 6, 2011
*** Alumna Seminar ***
AIRS Contribution to Climate and Air Quality Studies - Focus on Algorithm Refinement and Validation
Dr. Juying Warner
Ph.D. Meteorology 1997
Advisor: Bob Ellingson
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology
[ Abstract | Presentation ]
Contact: Russ Dickerson
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September 29, 2011
*** Faculty Seminar ***
Regional Climate-Weather Research and Forecasting (CWRF) Model Development and Application over the U.S.
Professor Xin-Zhong Liang
University of Maryland
[ Abstract | Presentation ]
Contact: Russ Dickerson
|
September 22, 2011
Multi-model Ensemble Forecasting in the Energy Weather Industry
Dr. Daniel Kirk-Davidoff
MDA Information Systems
[ Abstract ]
Contact: Kayo Ide
|
September 15, 2011
America's Climate Choices, Maryland's Climate Choices
Professor Donald F. Boesch
President
University of Maryland
Center for Environmental Science
[ Abstract | Presentation ]
Contact: Tony Busalacchi
|
September 8, 2011
*** Chair's Address ***
State of the Department
Professor Jim Carton
University of Maryland
Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
|
June 23, 2011
* Special Seminar *
Observing System Simulation Experiments: Methodology, Early Results and Plans for the Future
Dr. Robert Atlas
Director
NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
[ Abstract | Presentation ]
Contact: Prof. Kayo Ide
|
May 18, 2011
El Nino in SODA 1871-2008
Prof. Benjamin Giese
Texas A&M University
Department of Oceanography
[ Abstract ]
Contact: Prof.Jim Carton
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May 10, 2011
* Joint AOSC-Dept. History Seminar *
Climate Controversies: Science and the Politics of Knowledge about Global Climate Change
Prof. Paul Edwards
University of Michigan
School of Information
[ Abstract | Presentation ]
Contact: Prof. Kayo Ide
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May 5, 2011
* Almuni Seminar *
Tropical Weather Systems within a Global Data Assimilation and Forecasting Framework
Dr. Oreste Reale
2011 Distinguishd Alumni Award Recipient
PhD, Meteorology, University of Maryland
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Laboratory for Atmosphere
[ Abstract | Presentation ]
Contact: Prof. Ning Zeng
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April 28, 2011
Using Neural Networks to Improve Atmospheric Model Physics
Dr. Vladimir Krasnopolsky
NOAA Nat'l Centers for Environmental Prediction Environmental Modeling Center
[ Abstract | Presentation ]
Contact: Prof. Da-Lin Zhang
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April 21, 2011
Adjoint Sensitivity Studies of Extratropical and (Sub-)Tropical Transition: Floyd (1999) and Andrea (2007)
Prof. Michael Morgan
University of Wisconsin
NSF Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences
[ Abstract | Presentation ]
Contact: Prof. Kayo Ide
|
April 14, 2011
Daily Precipitation Statistics: An Intercomparison between NCEP Reanalyses and Observations
Dr. Vernon Kousky
University of Maryland
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sceince
[ Abstract | Presentation ]
Contact: Prof. Jim Carton
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April 7, 2011
How Can Environmental Changes Affect Climate: Findings From the EAST-AIRE and AMF Experiments in China
Prof. Zhanqing Li
University of Maryland
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center
[ Abstract | Presentation ]
Contact: Prof. Eugenia Kalnay
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March 31, 2011
When did the Anthropocene Begin?
Observations and Climate Model Simulations
Prof. John Kutzbach
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Center for Climate Research
[ Abstract | Presentation ]
Contact: Prof. Sumant Nigam
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March 17, 2011
It is Necessary to Revolutionize Climate Prediction: Is it Possible?
Professor Jagadish Shukla
George Mason University
Institute for Global Environment and Society
[ Abstract | Presentation ]
Contact: Prof. Eugenia Kalnay
|
March 16, 2011
Aerosol Assimilation and its Applications
Dr. Nicholas Schutgens
University of Tokyo
Atmospheric and Oceanic Research Institute
Contact: Prof. Zhanqing Li
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March 14, 2011
Ideas for Improving Ensemble Data Assimilation
Dr. Takemasa Miyoshi
University of Maryland
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
Contact: Prof. Eugenia Kalnay
|
March 10, 2011
The Relationship between Refractivity and Atmospheric Boundary Layer Structure
Dr. Robert Marshall
Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division
[ Abstract | Presentation ]
Contact: Prof. Da-Lin Zhang
|
March 9, 2011
The Data-Assimilation Zoo. Section: Kalman Filters
Dr. Lars Nerger
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Contact: Prof. Jim Carton
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March 3, 2011
Recent Progress in Analysis and Prediction at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction, Environmental Modeling Center
Dr. Steve Lord
NOAA Nat'l Centers for Environmental Prediction
Environmental Modeling Center
[ Abstract | Presentation ]
Contact: Prof. Kayo Ide
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February 24, 2011
Air Quality in a Changing Climate
Dr. Darrell Winner
National Center for Environmental Assessment
[ Abstract | Presentation ]
Contact: Dr. Jeff Stehr
|
February 17, 2011
Almuni Seminar
Observed Global Precipitation Variability during the 20th Century
Dr. Phil Arkin
PhD, Meteorology, University of Maryland
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites
[ Abstract | Presentation ]
Contact: Prof. Antonio Busalacchi
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February 10, 2011
Integration of Information from Multiple Sources
Prof. Benjamin Kedem
University of Maryland, Department of Mathematics
[ Abstract ]
Contact: Prof. Rachel Pinker
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January 31, 2011
Too Smart for Our Own Good
Dr. Craig Dilworth
Uppsala University, Sweden, Department of Philosophy
[ Abstract | Presentation ]
Contact: Prof. Eugenia Kalnay
|
2010
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December 9
Ensemble Forecasting: Why and How?
Dr. Zoltan Toth
NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory
Forecast Application Branch
[ Abstract | Presentation ]
Contact: Kayo Ide
|
December 2
The NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis
Dr. Suranjana Saha
NOAA Nat'l Centers for Environmental Prediction
Environmental Modeling Center
[ Abstract | Presentation ]
Contact: Eugenia Kalnay
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November 18
The Effects of Deep Convection on Atmospheric Chemistry
Dr. Kenneth Pickering
PhD, Meteorology, University of Maryland
* Alumni Reception at 3:00pm *
NASA GSFC Atmos. Chem. and Dyn. Branch
UMD Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciecne
[ Abstract | Presentation ]
Contact: Russ Dickerson
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November 11
Contrasting Physical-Biological Interactions in the Central Gyres and Ocean Margin
Prof. Anand Gnanadesikan
NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Johns Hopkins University (Starting January 2011)
[ Abstract | Presentation ]
Contact: James Carton
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November 4
Overview of the Global Change Assessment Model (GCAM)
Dr. Sonny Kim
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Joint Global Change Research Institute
[ Abstract | Presentation ]
Contact: Ning Zeng
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October 28
Land-use Change and Earth System Dynamics: Advancing the Science
Prof. George Hurtt
University of Maryland
Department of Geography
[ Abstract ]
Contact: Ning Zeng
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October 21
The Fate of Ethanol and Meat in a Changing Climate: Integrating the Socio-Economic and Physical Drivers of Land-use Change in the Partial Equilibrium Economic Land-use (PEEL) Model
Dr. Joshua W. Elliott
University of Chicago
& Argonne National Laboratory
Computation Institute
[ Abstract | Presentation ]
Contact: Danniel Kirk-Davidoff
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October 14
A Hybrid Lagrangian/Eulerian View of the Atmospheric Mass Circulation: Preliminary Results
Prof. Ming Cai
Florida State University
Dept. of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science
On sabbatical at Univeristy of Maryland
[ Abstract ]
Contact: Eugenia Kalnay
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October 7
Recent Widening of the Tropical Belt
Dr. Dian Seidel
PhD, Meteorology, University of Maryland
NOAA
Air Resources Laboratory
[ Abstract | Presentation ]
Contact: Sumant Nigam
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September 30
"Blue Collar" Science and The Maryland State Implementation Plan for Air Quality
Dr. Jeffrey W. Stehr
University of Maryland
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
[ Abstract | Presentation ]
Contact: Russ Dickerson
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September 23
A Critical Look at the Science of Climate Change
Prof. Ross J. Salawitch
University of Maryland
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
[ Abstract ]
Contact: Kayo Ide
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September 16
Revolutionizing Climate Modeling: Impact of High Spatial Resolution
Prof. James Kinter
Institute of Global Environment and Society
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies
[Abstract | Presentation ]
Contact: James Carton
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September 2
Population and Climate Change: Coupling Population Models with Earth System Models
Prof. Eugenia Kalnay and Mr. Harald Rybka(#)
University of Maryland
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
(#) Also Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany
[Abstract | Presentation PartI & PartII ]
Contact: Kayo Ide
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May 6
Nitrogen: A Story of Food, Feed and Fuel
Professor James N. Galloway
University of Virginia
Department of Environmental Sciences
Abstract
Contact: Russell Dickerson
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April 29
The Multi-Faceted Influence of Aerosols in Climate
Professor Venkatachalam Ramaswamy
NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Princeton University
Abstract
Contact: Sumant Nigam
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April 22
Observations of Tropical Variability in the Upper Troposphere/ Lower Stratosphere: Insights from the SHADOZ Strategic Ozonesonde Network
Professor Anne Thompson
Penn State University
Department of Meteorology
Abstract
Contact: Ross Salawitch
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April 15
Droughts over the US Great Plains and the African Sahel: A Key Role for Atlantic Basin Temperatures
Professor Sumant Nigam
University of Maryland
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
& Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center
Abstract
Contact: Kayo Ide
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April 8
Modeling Land Cover/Land Use Changes and Their Impact on Regional Climate
Professor E. Hugo Berbery
University of Maryland
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
Abstract
Contact: Kayo Ide
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April 1
Enhanced surface heating and accelerated snow melt in the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau induced by absorbing aerosols
Dr. William K.M. Lau
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Chief, Laboratory for Atmospheres
Abstract
Contact: Jeff Stehr
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March 25
Recent Findings in Weather and Climate Research from the AIRS on Aqua
Dr. Thomas S. Pagano
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
AIRS Project Manager
Abstract
Contact: Kayo Ide
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March 8, Monday, 12pm
ESSIC Conference Room 4102 (M square)
From a Failed Growth Economy to a Steady State Economy: With Ten Policy Steps Along the Way
Professor Herman E. Daly
University of Maryland
School of Public Policy
[ Abstract | Talk ]
Contact: Eugenia Kalnay
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March 4
The Effervescent Eddy Enigma
Professor A. Dennis Kirwan Jr.
University of Delaware
College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
Abstract
Contact: Kayo Ide
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February 25
The Stratospheric Ozone Hole and the Montreal Protocol: Role Model for Global Warming?
Professor Robert Hudson
University of Maryland
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
Abstract
Contact: Russell Dickerson
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February 18
NOAA Operational Polar-Orbiting Satellites for Monitoring the Environment and Socioeconomic Activities
Dr. Felix Kogan
NOAA Satellite Meteorology & Climatology Division
Environmental Monitoring Branch
Abstract
Contact: Rachel Pinker
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February 11:
'"Blue Collar" Science and The Maryland State Implementation Plan for Air Quality'
Dr. Jeffrey W. Stehr
University of Maryland
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
Abstract
Contact: Kayo Ide
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February 4
Expansion of the World's Deserts due to Vegetation-Albedo Feedback Under Global Warming
Professor Ning Zeng
University of Maryland
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
Abstract
Contact: Kayo Ide
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2009
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November 19
Considerations of Domain Size and Large-Scale Driving for Nested Regional Climate Models: Impact on Internal Variability and the Skill at Developing Small-Scale Details
Professor René Laprise
Université du Québec à Montréal
abstract
Contact: Hugo Berbery
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November 12
Satellite Contributions to the Study of Global Change
Dr. Claire Parkinson
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Earth Observing System Project Science Office
Abstract
Contact: Rachel Pinker
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November 5
Ertel Potential Vorticity as a Diagnostic for the Mars Polar Vortex
Dr. Tim McConnochie
Abstract
University of Maryland, Astronomy
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Contact: Eugenia Kalnay
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October 29
Air Pollution and Adverse Respiratory Health Outcomes: How Does Epidemiology Work?
Professor Amir Sapkota
University of Maryland
School of Public Health
Abstract
Contact: Russ Dickerson
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October 22
Global and Regional Aerosol Variations During the EOS Satellite Era: An Analysis Using Data From Multiple Satellite Sensors and a Global Model
Dr. Mian Chin
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Branch
Abstract
Contact: Rachel Pinker
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October 15
The Amazonian Aerosol Characterization Experiment (AMAZE-08)
Professor Scot T. Martin
Harvard University
School of Engineering & Applied Sciences
Abstract
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
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October 8
3:30pm-3:35pm: Pre-seminar Presentation
Student Opportunities in the National Weather Association
Dr. Ralph Ferraro
National Weather Association
3:35pm-4:35pm: AOSC Seminar
Air Quality in Maryland: Progress Through Policy-Relevant Science
Professor Russell Dickerson
University of Maryland
Deparment of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
Contact: Kayo Ide
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October 1
Wind Wave Modeling at NCEP
Dr. Hendrik Tolman
NOAA NCEP/EMC
Marine Modeling and Analysis Branch
Contact: Kayo Id
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September 24
Aerosols Matter for Climate and Health. What We Remote Sensing Scientists Can Do to Help
Dr. Ralph Kahn
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Climate Branch
Abstract
Contact: Rachel Pinker
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September 17
Global Climate Change and Sahel Rainfall
Michela Biasutti
Columbia University
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Abstract
Contact: Raghu Murtugudde
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September 17
Global Climate Change and Sahel Rainfall
Michela Biasutti
Columbia University
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Abstract
Contact: Raghu Murtugudde
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September 10
The Hoax at the Equator that Elucidates Global Warming Controversies
Professor George Philander
Princeton University
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program
Contact: Sumant Nigam
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September 3
Ozone Profile and Tropospheric Ozone Retrievals from Hyperspectral Backscattered Ultraviolet Measurements
Dr. Xiong Liu
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Goddard Earth Sciences & Technology Center
Abstract
Contact: Russ Dickerson
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May 14
Data Assimilation and Ensemble Forecasting at the Met Office: Current Status and Future Plan
Dr. Dale Barker
UK Met Office
Abstract
Contact: Takemasa Miyoshi
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May 7
The Threat to Polar Bears From Global Warming
Prof. Eric DeWeaver
University of Maryland
Abstract
Contact: Sumant Nigam
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April 30
Traveling Waves and Instabilities in the Martian Atmosphere
Dr. John Wilson
NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Abstract
Contact: Kayo Ide
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April 23
The Pleistocene Glacial Controversary and the Discovery of Climate Warming and Continental Dynamics
Prof. Paul Hoffman
Harvard University
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
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April 22, Wednesday, 3:00pm-4:00pm
CSS 2324
On Initial Perturbations for Ensemble Prediction
Prof. Erland Källén
Stockholm University, Sweden
Abstract
Contact: Kayo Ide
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April 16
Turbulent Fluid Dynamics at the Margins of Rotational and Stratified Control: Submesoscale Fluid Dynamics in the Ocean
Prof. James C. McWilliams
University of California, Los Angeles
Abstract
Contact: Kayo Ide
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April 9
Predictability of Severe Weather at the Mesoscales
Prof. Fuqing Zhang
Penn State University
Abstract
Contact: Kayo Ide
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April 2
Inter- and intra-basin Freshwater Disparities and Global Ocean Thermohaline Circulation
Dr. Dan Seidov
NOAA Oceanic Climate Laboratory
Abstract
Contact: Senya Grodsky
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March 26
The Role of Tropospheric Ozone in Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate: New Insights from Satellites, Modeling and Assimilation
Dr. Kevin Bowman
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Abstract
Contact: Kayo Ide
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March 12
What Caused the Late 16th Century Drought Across Western North America?
Prof. Michael N. Evans
University of Maryland
Abstract
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
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March 5
MERRA Overview, Global Water and Energy Budgets and a Brief Demonstration
Dr. Michael Bosilovich
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Abstract
Contact: Massimo Bollasina
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February 27, Friday, 12:00pm-1:pm
CSS Room 2324
Moving Forward Following the Launch Failure of OCO
Ross Salawitch and Ben Johnson
University of Maryland
Contact: Ross Salawitch
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February 26
Climate, Oceans, Global Warming, and Infectious Disease: The Cholera Paradigm
Prof. Rita Colwell
University of Maryland
Abstract
Contact: Ragu Murtugudde
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February 19
Atmospheric Bromine: Sources, Distribution, and Photochemistry
Prof. Ross Salawitch
University of Maryland
Abstract
Contact: Ross Salawitch
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February 12
Wind Power, Weather and Climate
Prof. Daniel Kirk-Davidoff
University of Maryland
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
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February 5
SST Gradients, Boundary Layer Convergence and a Simple Model of Climatological Rainfall and Latent Heating Profiles over the Tropical Oceans
Dr. Larissa Back
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Contact: Sumant Nigam
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2008
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December 11
(Almost) nine years of MODIS: What we are learning about global aerosol
Dr. Robert Levy
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
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December 4
Stratosphere-Troposphere Dynamical Coupling and Tropospheric Predictability
Dr. Ed Gerber
Columbia University
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
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November 20
Hurricanes in the Climate System
Prof. Kerry Emanuel
M.I.T.
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
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SPECIAL SEMINAR-- 4:30 pm
Atmospheric self-cleansing capacity: clean air for all?
Dr. Jos Lelieveld
Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Contact: Russ Dickerson
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November 13
Impacts of Global Change on Regional Air Quality
Prof. Tracey Holloway
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
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November 6
Recent and Projected Future Behavior of Arctic Clouds
Dr. Steve Vavrus
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
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October 30
The Role of Moisture in the MJO
Prof. David Randall
Colorado State University
Contact: Sumant Nigam
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October 23
The Incredible Shrinking Iguana: Galapagos, Gaia, and Hominid Evolution'
Prof. Ragu Murtugudde
ESSIC/AOSC, University of Maryland
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October 16
Forced and Internal 20th Century SST Trends in North Atlantic: Attributions and Climate Impacts
Dr. Mingfang Ting
LDEO/Columbia University
Contact: Renu Joseph
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October 9
Improving our understanding of Atlantic hurricanes through knowledge of the Saharan Air Layer: Hope or Hype?"
Dr. Scott Braun
NASA/GSFC
Contact: Dalin Zhang
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October 3, Friday, Noon
Special seminar, jointly held with the Atmospheric Chemistry Seminar Series in room CSS 3425
Status of Ensemble Forecasting at ECMWF: 32-day seamless probabilistic prediction
Dr. Roberto Buizza
ECMWF
Talks slides: PDF
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October 2
Natural and forced modulation of ENSO in the GFDL CM2.1 coupled GCM
Dr. Andrew Wittenberg
NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab
Contact:Dan Kirk-Davidoff
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September 25
Fears, Fantasies, and the Possibility of Climate Control: A useable history of climate engineering
Prof. James Fleming
Colby College
Abstract
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
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September 18
Impact of Climate Change on Global Viticulture
Prof. Anthony Busalacchi
ESSIC, U. Maryland
Abstract
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September 11
New Developments in Ensemble Kalman Filters
Prof. Eugenia Kalnay
AOSC, U. Maryland
Presentation (PDF)
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September 4
The economics of climate change
Prof. Tom Schelling
Dep't. of Economics
University of Maryland
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May 15
Coupled ocean-atmosphere breeding for ensemble forecasting and data assimilation
Dr. Shu-Chih Yanh
University of Maryland
Contact: Shu-Chih Yang
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May 8
Rewriting History on Ice in the Arctic - Surprising Results from the Arctic Coring Expedition
Prof. Kristen St. John
James Madison University
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
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May 1
What the ice ages are trying to tell us about climate sensitivity
Prof. Robert Toggweiler
Princeton University
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
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April 24
PDFs of tropospheric humidity: Measurements and theory
Prof. Darryn Waugh
Johns Hopkins University
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
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April 18 Note: Friday!
Global Warming and Atmospheric Brown Clouds: A Double Threat for Asia
Prof. V. Ramanathan
UCSD
Contact:Zhanqing Li
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April 17
The Tropical Warm Pool in a Warming World
Prof. Peter Webster
Georgia Tech
Contact:Sumant Nigam
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April 10
Surface-based Remote Sensing of Aerosol Indirect Effects
Prof. Mark Miller
Rutgers University
Contact:Zhanqing Li
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April 3
Elements of Climate Stabilization: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program Scenarios of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Atmospheric Concentrations
Dr. Leon Clarke
JGCRI, PNL
Contact: Eugenia Kalnay
His slides: PDF
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March 27
Denitrification and anammox in the Arabian Sea
Prof. Bess Ward
Princeton University
Contact: Raghu Murtugudde
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March 13
Daily Optimum Interpolation Analysis for Sea Surface Temperature
Dr. Thomas Smith
Satellite Climate Studies Branch, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR and ESSIC/CICS
Abstract Contact: Rachel Pinker
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Friday March 7
Cloud-aerosol-precipitation processes as revealed by the A-Train
Prof. Graeme Stephens
Colorado State University
Contact: Zhanqing Li
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Thursday March 6
Dynamical Polar Warming Amplification and a New Cliamte Feedback Analysis Framework
Prof. Ming Cai
Florida State University
Abstract Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
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February 21
Dr. Andrew Tangborn
NASA/GSFC, UMBC JCET
Contact: Dale Allen
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February 18
Note: 11 am Monday, in Room 3425
Predictability of a large-scale flow conducive to extreme precipitation over western Alps
Dr. Federico Grazzini
ARPA-Servizio IdroMeteorologico, Bologna, Italy
Contact: Istvan Szunyogh
Abstract
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February 14
Simulation and Assimilation of Denmark Strait Overflow
Prof. Tom Haine
Johns Hopkins University
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
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February 7
The Fronts are Moving! The Fronts are Moving!
Prof. Robert Hudson
University of Maryland
Contact: Robert Hudson
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January 31
Recent advances in the WRF model and applications to convection-resolving forecasting
Dr. Joe Klemp
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Contact: Dalin Zhang
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January 17
Ocean Viscosity and Climate
Dr. Markus Jochum
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Contact: Raghu Murtugudde
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2007
|
December 6
"The Orbiting Carbon Observatory"
Prof. Ross Salawitch
University of Maryland
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November 29
From the Laboratory to the Storm Environment: Integrating Observations and Models of Rainfall Microphysics
Prof. Ana Barros
Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Duke University
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
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November 15
Regional radiative forcing vs regional climate response: Implications for science and for environmental policy
Dr. Hiram Levy
NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Contact: Russ Dickerson
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November 8
"Hadley circulation and monsoon dynamics."
Prof. Tapio Schneider
Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Caltech
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
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November 1
Self-maintaining jets and subtropical drying in the greenhouse
Prof. Walter Robinson
NSF/University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
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October 25
Weather by the Numbers: The Development of NWP in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Prof. Kristine Harper
Humanities Department, New Mexico Tech
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
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October 18
"Climate change in the Sahel"
Dr. Alessandra Giannini
IRI for Climate and Society/Columbia University
Contact: Ernesto Munoz
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October 11
Tropical and Subtropical Salinity and Hydrologic System Variability During the Late Quaternary
Prof. Howard Spero
Department of Geology, U.C. Davis
Contact: Ning Zeng
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October 4
Examples of Four-Dimensional Data Assimilation in Oceanography
Dr. Ibrahim Hoteit
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Contact:Eugenia Kalnay
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September 27
Africa's role in global water and carbon cycles: Diagnosing ecosystem processes and connections to climate
Dr. Christopher Williams
GEST/UMBC/NASA GSFC
Contact: Ning Zeng
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September 20
Observing System Experiments using NCEP Operational Data Assimilation Systems
Mr. James Jung
NCEP
Contact: Eugenia Kalnay
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September 13
Modeling Marine Microbial Communities
Dr. Mick Follows
Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Contact: Ragu Murtugudde:
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September 6
From Physics to Fish: Nature's rules and biological loopholes
Prof. Ragu Murtugudde
Dep't. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
University of Maryland
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May 24
Overview of the EAST-AIRE experiment
Prof. Zhanqing Li
University of Maryland
|
May 17
The use of spectral zenith radiance measurements to better understand cloud-radiation processes
Dr. Warren Wiscombe
NASA GSFC
|
May 10
Prof. Alex Hall
A Strategy to Reduce the Persistent Spread in Projections of Future Climate
University of Calfornia at Los Angeles
|
April 26
The Eugene Rasmusson Symposium at the 2007 AMS Annual Meeting: Gene's Hydroclimate Legacy
Prof. Sumant Nigam
University of Maryland, College Park
Contact: Sumant Nigam
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April 19
The Origins of ITCZ, Monsoon and Monsoon Onset
Dr. Winston Chao
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
Abstract
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April 12
POSTPONED TO FALL 2007
History of Numerical Weather Forecasting
Prof. Kristine Harper
New Mexico Tech
Contact:Dan Kirk-Davidoff
|
April 5
The Impact of Tropical Indian Ocean Warming on Southern Hemisphere Polar Climate
Dr. Judith Perlwitz
NOAA Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Contact:Dan Kirk-Davidoff
Abstract
|
March 29
Tropical influences on the hydroclimate and vegetation of Central and Southwest Asia
Prof. Matt Barlow
U. Mass Lowell
Abstract
Contact: Sumant Nigam
|
March 15
SO2 over China detected with EOS Aura Ozone Monitoring Instrument and aircraft in-situ measurements
Dr. Nickolay A. Krotkov
GEST/UMBC and NASA/GSFC
Contact: Zhanqing Li
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March 8
Linking Landscape and Water Quality in the Mississippi River Basin for 200 years
Prof. R. Eugene Turner
Louisiana State University
Contact: Daniel Kirk-Davidoff
Abstract
|
March 1
The Global Aerosol System as Viewed by MODIS Today
Dr. Lorraine Remer
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Contact: Zhanqing Li
Abstract
|
February 22
Causes and Impacts of the 2005 Amazon Drought
Prof. Ning Zeng
University of Maryland
Contact: Ning Zeng
Abstract
|
February 15
Tracking the sources of stratospheric water: new measurements of isotopic markers of deep convection
Dr. Elizabeth Moyer
Harvard University
Contact:Dan Kirk-Davidoff
|
February 8
Climate Change Technology Research: Do we need a Manhattan Project for the Environment?
Mr. Lee Lane
Climate Policy Center
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
|
February 1
Hybrid Variational/Ensemble Data Assimilation
Dr. Dale Barker
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
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Friday, January 12 at 11 am in CSS 3425
Impact of climate change on the water cycle in West Africa:
Numerical modelling and uncertainty
Dr. Tristan d'Orgeval
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique du C.N.R.S.
Contact: Hugo Berbery
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2006
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December 7
Sensitivity study of T2m and precipitation forecasts to soil moisture initial condition using NCEP WRF ensemble system
Dr. Jun Du
NOAA/NCEP/EMC
Abstract
PowerPoint Slides of Talk
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
|
November 30
Stratosphere-troposphere Interactions Forced by Variations in Snow Extent
Prof. Paul Kushner
University of Toronto
Contact: Sumant Nigam
|
November 16
Human impacts on atmospheric deposition of iron
Dr. Natalie Mahowald
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
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November 9
"How do "greenhouse" Climates Work?"
Prof. Matthew Huber
Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Purdue University
Relevant Paper
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
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November 2
"NCEP Update: Review of Progress in Operational Weather, Climate and Ocean Forecasts"
Dr. Louis Uccellini
NOAA/NWS
Slides from the Talk
Movie 1
Movie 2
Contact: Eugenia Kalnay
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October 26
"Diagnosing Climate Model Fidelity"
Prof. Daniel Kirk-Davidoff
University of Maryland
|
October 19
"The mesoscale dynamics associated with fire-atmosphere interactions"
Dr. Jay Charney
USDA Forest Service
Contact: Daniel Kirk-Davidoff
|
October 12
"Indian Ocean Climate Variability of Relevance to Biogeochemistry"
Prof. Ragu Murtugudde
University of Maryland, College Park
|
October 5
"Recent Changes in Arctic-Atlantic Climate"
Dr. Helge Drange
Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Norway
Contact: Emily Becker
|
September 25
"Understanding the Land-Cloud-Atmosphere Interaction"
Dr. Alan Betts
Atmospheric Research
Contact: Eugenia Kalnay
|
September 21
"Multimodel Ensemble Prediction System in Spain"
Dr. Jose Garcia-Moya
National Institute of Meteorology, Spain
Contact: Eugenia Kalnay
|
September 7
"The Tropical Pacific Meridional Mode and ENSO-like Decadal Variability"
Prof. Dan Vimont
Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Contact: Sumant Nigam
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June 16
Special Time: 1:30 pm Friday
Cegeon Chan
M.I.T. Contact: Ferdinand Baer
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May 11
Explosive cyclogenesis over western Pacific: Impacts of upstream wave packets
Edmund Chang
The Institute for Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres
SUNY Stony Brook
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
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May 4
Mechanisms for decadal changes in ENSO
Dr. Rong-Hua Zhang
ESSIC
Contact: Rong-Hua Zhang
|
April 27
When will the Antarctic ozone hole recover?
Dr. Paul Newman
NASA GSFC
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
|
April 20
Hydroclimate Variability over the Great Plains in Observations, Reanalyses, and Model Simulations
Prof. Sumant Nigam
AOSC
Contact: Sumant Nigam
|
March 30
Changing Characteristics of Hurricanes in a Warming World
Dr. Greg Holland
Mesoscle and Microscale Modelling Division
NCAR
Contact: Da-Lin Zhang
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March 16
The Global Carbon Cycle: A Faustian Bargain?
Prof. Berrien Moore
Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space
University of New Hampshire
Contact: Antonio Busalacchi
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March 9
Dynamics of the (so-called) North Atlantic Oscillation and (so-called) Annular Modes
Prof. Geoff Vallis
Department of Geosciences
Princeton University
Contact: Roxana Wajsowicz
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March 2
Detection and attribution of regional climate change
Prof. David Karoly
School of Meteorology
University of Oklahoma
Relevant Paper
Contact: Eugenia Kalnay
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February 16
Direct estimation of midlatitude stratosphere-troposphere mass exchange using an advection-diffusion method
Prof. Noboru Nakamura
Dept. of Geosciences
University of Chicago
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
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February 9
What controls the cross-tropopause transport of water vapor and CO over the Asian monsoon/Tibetan Plateau? - A preliminary investigation based on Aura and other A-train observations
Prof. Rong Fu
Dept. of Atmospheric Science
University of Georgia
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
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February 8 (Wednesday), 10:00 in Room CSS 2324
Accounting for an imperfect model in 4D-Var
Dr. Yannick Trèmolet
ECMWF
Contact: Istvan Szunyogh
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February 7 (Tuesday), 3:30 in Room CSS 2428
A consistent theory for linear waves of the Shallow Water Equations on a rotating plane in mid-latitudes
Prof. Nathan Paldor
Dept. of Atmospheric Science
Department of Atmospheric Sciences
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Relevant Paper
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
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February 2 at 3:20
Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange Trend From Changing Sea-Surface Temperatures
Dr. Mark Olsen
NASA GSFC
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
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January 25
Special Seminar: Wednesday at 3:30 pm
Understanding Processes and Uncertainties in Atmospheric Modeling: The Global Modeling Initiative
Prof. Jose Rodriguez
U. Miami and NASA/Goddard
Contact: Russell Dickerson
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January 19
Special Time: 2 pm
Stratospheric Clouds: The Meteorology, Marvels, and Mysteries Mr. Mike Fromm
Naval Research Lab
Contact: Zhanqing Li
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2005
|
December 19
Special Time: 11 am, rm. 3425
Ensemble Data Assimilation with the NCEP GFS
Dr. Jeff Whitaker
NOAA
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
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December 8
The signature of global warming and Pacific pan-decadal variability in the observed and reanalyses fields
Dr. Jonathan Chen
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center
University of Maryland, College Park
Contact: Jonathan Chen
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December 1
Location: Chemistry Building, Room 1407 Time: 7 pm Seminar, 8 pm Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate in the "Anthropocene"
Prof. Paul Crutzen
Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Contact: Russ Dickerson
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November 17
Air-sea CO2 flux response to climate variability on seasonal, interannual and decadal timescales
Prof. Galen McKinley
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
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November 10
The West African Monsoon System: 20th Century Simulation and 21st Century Prediction
Prof. Kerry Cook
Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Cornell University
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
|
November 3
What can biogeochemical tracers tell us about pathways of ocean ventilation?
Dr. Anand Gnanadesikan
NOAA/GFDL
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
|
October 31, Monday 11:30 am, Room 3425
"The Maximum Likelihood Ensemble Filter: Recent development and preliminary results"
Milija Zupanski
CIRA/Colorado State University
Contact: Eugenia Kalnay
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October 27
Global Changes of the Water Cycle Intensity
Michael Bosilovich
NASA/GSFC
Contact: Roxana Wajsowicz
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October 21 Friday, 3 pm
'Issues in Modeling the Aerosol Effects on Climate'
Dr. Chul Chung
Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Contact: Sumant Nigam
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October 20 2:30 pm in CSS 2324
"Partitioning of poleward heat transport between the atmosphere and ocean"
Prof. John Marshall
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
M.I.T.
Contact: Roxana Wajsowicz
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October 13
"Atmospheric Aerosols: Formation, Aging, and Interaction with Cloud- Climate"
Prof. Renyi Zhang
Department of Atmospheric Sciences
Texas A&M
Relevant Paper 1
Relevant Paper 2
Contact: Zhanqing Li
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October 6
"Air Pollution: Science, Impacts and Policy"
Prof. Denise Mauzerall
Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton University
Contact: Russ Dickerson
|
September 29
'A parametric view of climate and low-frequency variability'
Prof. Sukyoung Lee
Dept. of Meteorology
Pennsylvania State University
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
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September 22
"A Global Convection Circulation Paradigm for the Annular Mode"
Prof. Ming Cai
Dept. of Meteorology
Florida State University
Relevant Paper 1
Relevant Paper 2
Contact: Eugenia Kalnay
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September 15
"Prospects for Passive Precision Measurement of CO2 column from Space"
Dr. Bill Heaps
NASA/GSFC
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
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September 9 (Friday), 3 pm
Note Special Day and Time
"Tropical rainfall impacts under global warming"
Prof. David Neelin
Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles
Relevant Paper
Contact: Ning Zeng
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May 12
Use of AIRS/AMSU data for weather and climate studies
Dr. J. Susskind
NASA/GSFC
Contact: ekalnay@atmos.umd.edu
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May 5
Satellite Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Conditions Hazardous to Aviation
Dr. Gary Ellrod
NOAA/NESDIS
Contact: ekalnay@atmos.umd.edu
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April 28
"Hyperspectral Infrared Remote Sensing Research and Development Activities at NESDIS"
Dr. Mitchell D. Goldberg
NOAA/NESDIS
Contact: ekalnay@atmos.umd.edu
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April 21
"Constraining the Missing CO2 Sink"
Dr. Randy Kawa
NASA/GSFC
Contact: Ning Zeng
|
April 14
"The Global Carbon Cycle: an Introduction"
Ning Zeng
Dept. of Meteorology
University of Maryland
Contact: Ning Zeng
|
April 7
"Predictability of Climate: Why Do Climate Model Sensitivities to Doubled CO2 Differ?"
Prof. Ed Schneider
George Mason University and COLA
Contact: roxana@atmos.umd.edu
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March 31
"Evidence of Land-Atmosphere Feedback in the Observational Record"
Dr. Randal Koster
NASA/GSFC
Contact: zeng@atmos.umd.edu
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March 17
"Representing Extreme Behavior in Climate Models"
Dr. Jim Kinter
COLA
Contact: zeng@atmos.umd.edu
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March 10
"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"
Dr. Peter Colarco
ESSIC
University of Maryland
Contact: zeng@atmos.umd.edu
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March 3
"Forecasting Extremes in the Indian Ocean Sector Climate"
Dr. Roxana Wajsowicz
Dept. of Meteorology
University of Maryland
Contact: zeng@atmos.umd.edu
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February 24
" Prospects for Passive Precision Measurement of CO2 column from Space"
Dr. Bill Heaps
NASA/GSFC
Contact: dankd@atmos.umd.edu
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February 17
"Paleoclimate: An Introdution"
Prof. Dan Kirk-Davidoff
Dept. of Meteorology
University of Maryland
Contact: zeng@atmos.umd.edu
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February 10
"Characterization and High Resolution Numerical Simulations of Stratospheric Clear Air and Optical Turbulence "
Prof. Alex Mahalov
Arizona State University
Contact: ekalnay@atmos.umd.edu
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February 3
"The Total Ozone Record as a Diagnostic of Decadal Climate Change"
Prof. Bob Hudson
Department of Meteorology
University of Maryland
Contact: zeng@atmos.umd.edu
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2004
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December 9
Special Seminar
"Air Quality and Climate Change"
Prof. Mario Molina
MIT, Nobel Laureate of Chemistry
Contact: bruce@atmos.umd.edu
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December 2
Rapid Intensification of Hurricane Charlie (2004) Observed by Coastal WSR-88Ds
Dr. Wenchau Lee
NCAR
Contact: dalin@atmos.umd.edu
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November 18
Including Land in Climate Models
Robert E. Dickinson
Georgia Institute of Technology
Contact: Ning Zeng
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November 11
"Diagnosing Ocean Transport Pathways and Timescales From Tracers"
Prof. Tom Haine
Johns Hopkins University
Contact: roxana@atmos.umd.edu
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November 4
"Corals, Coccoliths, and CO2: The Role of Carbonate Cycling in the Earth System"
Dr. Andy Ridgwell
University of British Columbia
Contact: zeng@atmos.umd.edu
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October 28
Why is the climate change debate so confusing?
Dr. Andy Dessler
ESSIC and Department of Meteorology
University of Maryland
Contact: zeng@atmos.umd.edu
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October 21
The impact of large-scale wind farms on climate
Prof. Daniel Kirk-Davidoff
Department of Meteorology
University of Maryland
Contact: zeng@atmos.umd.edu
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October 14
Suppression of Deep Convection by Saharan Air Layer over the Tropical North Atlantic
Dr. Sun Wong
ESSIC, University of Maryland
Contact: dessler@atmos.umd.edu
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October 7
"Reforecasts, an Important New Data Set for Improving Weather-Climate Predictions"
Drs. Tom Hamill and Jeff Whitaker
NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center
Boulder, Colorado
Contact: ekalnay@atmos.umd.edu
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September 30
"Geological Perspective on Global Warming"
Prof. George Philander
Department of Geological Sciences
Princeton University
Contact: roxana@atmos.umd.edu
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September 23
"Regional Air Pollution Potential"
Dr. Mark Lawrence
Department of Airchemistry/NWG
Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Contact: russ@atmos.umd.edu
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September 16
"The Discovery of Global Warming"
Dr. Spencer Weart
Center for History of Physics
American Institute of Physics
Contact: zeng@atmos.umd.edu
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September 9
"The Internal Variability of the Tropical Oceans"
Prof. Ragu Murtugudde
ESSIC and Department of Meteorology
University of Maryland
Contact: zeng@atmos.umd.edu
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May 6
Dr. Xuguang WangPenn State Ensemble Forecasting with the Ensemble Transform Kalman
Filter (ETKF)
Contact person: Dr. Istavan Szunyogh
|
April 29
Dr. Franco Enaudi
NASA/GSFC, Earth Science Directorate
Earth science research at NASA with an emphasis on research at the Goddard Space Flight Center
Contact person: Dr. Ning Zeng
|
April 22
Dr. Gerard Roe
University of Washington Characterization of Millennial-Scale Climate Variability
Contact person: Prof. Dan Kirk-Davidoff
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Special Joint Seminar --Meteorology/Geology/Geography/ESSIC
April 15
Dr. William Ruddiman University of Virginia
The Anthropogenic Greenhouse Era
Began Thousands of Years Ago
Contact person: Prof. Ning Zeng
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April 8
Dr. Ning Zeng
Meteorology and ESSIC, U Maryland, College Park
How strong is carbon-climate feedback under global warming?
Contact person: Dr. Ning Zeng
|
April 1
Dr. Jonathan Adams
Environmental Science and Ecology, Providence, Rhode Island
Patterns in tree species richness and the glacial extinction hypothesis
Contact person: Dr. Ning Zeng
|
March 18
Dr. Elizabeth NorthUniversity of Maryland, Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory
Linking environmental variability to fish population
fluctuations using field and modeling approaches
Contact person: Prof. Eugenia Kalnay
|
March 11
Dr. Adam Sobel Lamont-Doherty
Observatory, Columbia University
The role of surface fluxes, cloud-radiative feedbacks, and ocean coupling in the tropical intraseasonal oscillation
Contact person: Dr. Ning Zeng
|
March 3
Special date: WendnsdayJoint Oceanographic Institute/USSAC
Distinguished Lecturers Series
Dr. Mitch LyleBoise State Univeristy
The Pacific Ocean and Climate Change, from Eocene Extreme Warmth to Pleistocene
Glacial Cycles
Contact person: Ms. Sandra Martinka
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Feburary 19
Dr.Yoram KaufmanNASA/GSFC
Aerosol effect on climate - the unique satellite vantage point
Contact person: Dr. Z. Li
|
Feburary 12
Dr. Vernon Kousky
NOAA/Climate
Prediction Center The Recent Evolution of the ENSO cycle
Contact person: Prof. O. Thompson
|
Feburary 5
Dr. Devara
Atmospheric Aerosol Research Activity at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology
(IITM), Pune, India
Contact person: Prof. R. Pinker
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January 29
Dr. Zhanqing Li
Departmentof Meteorology, University of Maryland
Cloud Absorption Anomaly: An Overview and Update
Contact person: Prof. Ning Zeng
|
2003
|
December 11
Dr. Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas
Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland
Interannual Variability of Warm-Season Rainfall over the US Great Plains in NCAR/CAM2.0 and NASA/NSIPP Simulations
Contact person: Dr. Sumant Nigam
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December 4
Dr. Mick Follows
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Modulation of atmospheric CO2 by the oceans subtropical thermocline
Contact person: Dr. Raghu Murtugudde
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November 20
Dr. Bernard Dugas
Numerical Prediction Research Division, Atmospheric Environment Service
Results from the Global Environmental Multiscale (GEM) model at RPN
Contact person: Dr. Michael Fox-Rabinovitz
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November 13
Dr. William Lau
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Precipitation-Aerosol-Clouds interactions and Climate Change
Contact person: Dr. Ning Zeng
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November 7, 3:30 pm
Room 2400
Dr. Michael Ghil
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, and University of California, Los Angeles
Interannual Variability of the Wind-Driven Ocean Circulation: A New Source of Climate Predictability?
Contact person: Dr. Eugenia Kalnay
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October 30
Dr. Andrew Robertson
International Research Institute for Climate Prediction (IRI)
Downscaling of seasonal rainfall predictions over NE Brazil using a Hidden Markov Model
Contact person: Dr. Hugo Berbery
|
October 23
Dr. J. Shukla
George Mason University and
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)
The Walker Family: ENSO, Monsoon and the Indian Ocean "dipole"
Contact person: Dr. E. Kalnay
|
October 16
Dr. Paul Dirmeyer
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)
Global soil wetness products: What can we believe?
Contact person: Dr. Ning Zeng
|
October 9
Dr. Larrabee Strow
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Early observations from the Advanced Infrared Sounder on Aqua
Contact person: Dr. Andrew Dessler
|
October 2
Dr. Raghu Murtugudde
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), University of Maryland
'Bio-Climate Feedbacks: Towards an Earth System Model?
Contact person: Dr. Hugo Berbery
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September 25
Dr. Jose Rodriguez
RSMAS, University of Miami
NASA's Global Modeling Initiative and the "Science of Assessment"
Contact person: Dr. Tony Busalacchi
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September 18
Dr. J. Marshall Shepherd
Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA
Can Cities Make Their Own Rainfall?: Recent Insights from new NASA Research -
Contact person: Ms. Melanie Follette
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September 11
Dr. Istvan Szunyogh; coauthors: E. Kostelich, B. Hunt, E. Ott, E. Kalnay, G Gyarmati, D.J. Patil, J. Yorke and A. Zimin
Institute for Physical Science and Technology and Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland
A Local Ensemble Kalman Filter for the NCEP Global Forecast System
Contact person: Dr. Eugenia Kalnay
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September 4
Dr. Konstantin Vinnikov and Norman Grody (NESDIS/NOAA)
Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland
Warming Trend in Satellite Observed Globally Averaged Tropospheric Mean Temperature
Contact person: Dr. Hugo Berbery
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May 15
Dr. Arnold Gordon
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory - Columbia University
The Coolness of the Indonesian Throughflow
Contact person: Dr. Roxana Wajsowicz
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May 9 at 11:00 am
Special seminar
Rm 3425 CSS
Renu Joseph
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois
Stationary wave response to climate change in a coupled GCM
Contact person: Dr. Sumant Nigam
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May 8
Dr. Dmitri Chalikov
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center - University of Maryland
Monin-Obukhov similarity theory. Revision and application to parameterization of mixing in upper ocean
Contact person: Dr. Hugo Berbery
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May 1
Dr. David Considine
NASA Langley Research Center
When are we going to get there? Problems in predicting the recovery of the stratospheric ozone hole
Contact person: Dr. Andrew Dessler
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April 24
Dr. James Carton
Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland
SODA POP -- a reanalysis of ocean climate
Contact person: Dr. Da-Lin Zhang
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April 17
Dr. Jim Collatz
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Interannual variability of the terrestrial carbon cycle
Contact person: Dr. Ning Zeng
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April 10
Dr. Winston T. Luke
NOAA/Air Resources Laboratory (R/ARL)
BRACE - Bay Region Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment: Overview and some early results
Contact person: Dr. Russ Dickerson
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April 3
Dr. Ming Cai
Department of Meteorology - University of Maryland
Dynamical Implications of Atmospheric Eddies' Orientation
Contact person: Dr. Eugenia Kalnay
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March 20
Dr. Siegfried Schubert
The Earth Sciences Directorate at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
The Impact of ENSO on Extreme Winter Weather over the United States
Contact person: Dr. Tony Busalacchi
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March 13
Dr. Robert Atlas
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
The Impact of Scatterometer Observations on Weather Prediction
Contact person: Dr. Hugo Berbery
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March 6
Dr. Mike Spall
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Deep convection east of Greenland: Atmospheric forcing and oceanic response
Contact person: Dr. Roxana Wajsowicz
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February 27
Professor Shoshiro Minobe
Division of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Hokkaido University
Regime shifts, pentadecadal and bidecadal oscillations over the North Pacific
Contact person: Dr. Roxana Wajsowicz
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February 20
Dr. Oleg Dubovik
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center - GEST Center/UMBC
Inversion of Spectral Aerosol Optical Thickness & Sky Radiance to Derive Aerosol Optical and Microphysical Properties from AERONET
Contact person: Dr. Rachel Pinker
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February 13
Dr. Andrew Dessler
Department of Meteorology and Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC)- University of Maryland
New developments in understanding troposphere-to-stratosphere transport: Isotopes and seasonal cycles
Contact person: Dr. Ferd Baer
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February 6
Dr. Fu-Lung Chang
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC)- University of Maryland
Validation of a new cloud microphysical retrieval scheme applied to MODIS data
Contact person: Dr. Zhanqing Li
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January 30
Dr. Bill Stockwell
Office of Weather and Air Quality NOAA/OAR
Mesoscale Air Quality Modeling of Ozone and Aerosol
Contact person: Dr. Russ Dickerson
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2002
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December 5
Dr. Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas
Department of Meteorology - University of Maryland
Seasonal moisture flux variability over North America in AMIP simulations and atmospheric reanalyses
Contact person: Dr. Sumant Nigam
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November 21
Dr. Jorge Sarmiento
Princeton University
Response of ocean biology to global warming
Contact persons: Dr. Tony Busalacchi -- Dr. Raghu Murtugudde
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November 14
Dr. Annarita Mariotti
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) - University of Maryland
Variability of the Euro-Mediterranean water cycle
Contact person: Dr. Tony Busalacchi
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November 7
Dr. Ray Hoff
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Towards a global lidar observing capability
Contact person: Dr. Russ Dickerson
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October 31
Dr. Omar Torres
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology at UMBC
The use of ultraviolet observations to measure aerosol absorption from space
Contact person: Marcos Andrade
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October 24
Dr. Barry Klinger
George Mason University and COLA
Remote wind-driven overturning in the absence of the Drake Passage Effect
Contact person: Roxana Wajsowicz
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October 17
Dr. Kuo-Nan Liou (Chair)
Department of Atmospheric Sciences - University of California at Los Angeles
Remote Sensing of Cirrus Clouds: A Global Perspective and Global Implication
Contact person: Dr. Zhanqing Li
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October 10
Dr. Wei-Kuo Tao
Laboratory for Atmospheres - NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Convective Systems over the South China Sea: Cloud-Resolving Model Simulations
Contact person: Dr. Sumant Nigam
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October 3
Drs. Mozheng Wei and Zoltan Toth
Environmental Modeling Center, NCEP/NOAA
Explaining Forecast Errors by Ensemble Perturbations
Contact person: Dr. Eugenia Kalnay
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September 26
Drs. Raghu Murtugudde, Joel Picaut, Eric Hackert, Tony Busalacchi and Gary Lagerloef
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC)- University of Maryland
Mechanisms of the 1997-98 El Niño-La Niña Observed From Space
Contact person: Dr. Tony Busalacchi
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September 19
Dr. Peter Yau
Dept of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences - McGill University
Title: Spiral bands in a simulated hurricane
Contact person: Dr. Da-Lin Zhang
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September 12
Dr. Vladimir Krasnopolsky
Environmental Modeling Center NWS/NCEP/NOAA (SAIC)
Introduction to Neural Networks with Some Atmospheric and Oceanic Applications
Contact person: Dr. Michael Fox-Rabinovitz
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September 5
Dr. Eugenia Kalnay, the Chaos Group and Malaquias Peña
Department of Meteorology/IPST - University of Maryland
Breeding, Predictability and Data Assimilation
Contact person: Dr. Hugo Berbery
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May 16
Dr. John Derber
Environmental Modeling Center/NCEP/NOAA
The trials and tribulations of data assimilation
Contact person: Eugenia Kalnay
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May 9
Dr. Roseanne Diab
University of Natal, Durban, South Africa
Tropospheric Ozone over Africa
Contact person: Anne Thompson
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May 6 at 1:00 pm
Room 2428
Dr. Istvan Szunyogh
IPST, The University of Maryland
The dynamical foundation of targeting weather observations
Contact person: Ferd Baer
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May 3 at 11:00 am
Room 3425
Dr. Baijun Tian
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Tropical Cloud Radiative Forcing and the Hadley/Walker Circulation
Contact person: Sumant Nigam
Special seminar
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May 2
Dr. Fu-Lung Chang
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) University of Maryland
Examining the cloud and radiation quantities derived from satellite observations
Contact person: Zanqing Li
Special seminar
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May 1 at 12:00 pm
Room 2428
Dr. Ming Cai
Department of Meteorology, The University of Maryland
Dynamical fingerprint of climate variability and trend
Contact person: Ferd Baer
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April 29 at 1:00 pm
Room 2428
Dr. Aiguo Dai
NCAR
Diurnal Cycle in Observed and Model Simulated Precipitation
Contact person: Ferd Baer
Special seminar
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April 25
Dr. Kenneth Mitchell
Environmental Modeling Center/NCEP/NOAA
Land surface modeling initiatives in the NCEP Eta mesoscale model and the Eta Data Assimilation System (EDAS)
Contact person: Hugo Berbery
Special seminar
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April 18
Dr. Fuzhong Weng
Office of Research and Applications, NOAA/NESDIS and CICS/University of Maryland
Atmospheric and Surface Parameters Retrieved from Satellite Microwave Radiometry
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April 16 at 4:30 pm
Dr. René Laprise
Regional Climate Modelling Laboratory, Université du Québec à Montréal
Testing the downscaling skill of nested Regional Climate Models: The Big-Brother experiment
Contact person: Hugo Berbery
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April 11
Dr. Anwar Huq
Center of Marine Biotechnology - University of Maryland Biotech Institute
Vibrio cholerae and Cholera: Detection, Prediction & Prevention
Contact person: Tony Busalacchi
Special seminar
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April 4
Dr. Georgyi Stenchikov
Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University
Arctic Oscillation response to the Mt. Pinatubo Eruption.
Contact person: Ken Pickering
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March 21
Dr. Michael Ek
Environmental Modeling Center/NCEP/NOAA
Coupled land-atmosphere model evaluation and impact of soil moisture on cumulus initiation
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March 14
Dr. Kamran Syed*, Arnold Gruber and Cheng-Zhi Zou
*Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland
Computation of Global Moisture Flux, Flux Divergence and Residual Evaporation Using Diverse Data Products
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March 7
Dr. George J. Huffman
Goddard Space Flight Center/NASA
Progress in Global Rainfall Estimates
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February 28
Dr. Alan Robock
Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University
Volcanic Eruptions and Climate: Winter Warming and Summer Cooling
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February 21
Dr. Keith Moore
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
Phytoplankton Functional Groups and Oceanic Carbon Cycling
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February 14
Dr. Tim DelSole
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)
Optimal Persistence Patterns: An Approach to Predictability and Decadal Variability Theory
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February 7
Dr. Victor Nikolaevskiy
Institute of Earth Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences
Modeling of Tornadoes by turbulence theory with eddy angular momentum
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January 31
Drs. Jean-François Estrade and Joe Sela
Environmental Modeling Center/NCEP/NOAA
The NCEP global spectral model: New challenges in parallelization
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2001
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December 6
Dr. Michael Fox-Rabinovitz
ESSIC/Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland and Data Assimilation Office, NASA/GSFC
Studying anomalous regional climate events with a variable-resolution stretched-grid GCM and Data Assimilation System
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November 29
Dr. Roxana C. Wajsowicz
Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland
Determining the Circulation of the North Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea
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November 15
Dr. Eric DeWeaver
Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland
Dynamics of the El Niño Anticyclones
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November 8
Dr. Michael King
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Remote Sensing of Cloud, Aerosol, and Water Vapor Properties from MODIS
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November 1
Dr. Aimé Fournier
Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland
Multiwavelet multiresolution adaptive spectral-element computation of shallow-water flow
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October 26 at 11:00 am Rm 3425 CSS
Doug Wilson
NOAA/AOML, Miami
Physical Oceanography in the Caribbean: Recent Programs and Observations
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October 25
Dr. Xu Li
Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland
Satellite Data Assimilation in ECMWF Reanalysis
Special seminar
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October 18
Dr. Randal Koster
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Impact of Land Processes on Seasonal Precipitation Forecasts
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October 11
Drs. M. Corazza, E. Kalnay and D. J. Patil
Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland
Breeding and Data Assimilation
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October 4
Dr. Steve Tracton
Environmental Modeling Center/NOAA/NWS/NCEP /
The NCEP/EMC Short Range Ensemble Forecast(SREF) System
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September 27
Dr. David Stensrud
NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory
Value of Real-time Land Use Data in Numerical Weather Prediction
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September 21 (FRIDAY)
Dr. Axel Kleidon
Department of Geography, University of Maryland
Growing deep: Model investigations into the role of deep rooted vegetation in the climate system
SPECIAL SEMINAR
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September 6
Dr. Konstantin Vinnikov
Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland
Trends in Statistical Moments of Climatic Indices. Seasonal and Diurnal Cycles in the Trends
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June 28 at 3:30 pm
Rm 2400 CSS
Dr. Richard Kerr
Senior Writer for Science
How Science Becomes News?
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May 31 at 3:30 pm
Rm 2400 CSS
Dr. Jeff Proehl
Dartmouth University
Wave Geometry and Equatorial Oceanic Instability
Special seminar
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May 10
Prof. Roger Pielke Sr.
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
Missing links in multi-decadal regional and global climate prediction
Special seminar
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May 8 at 3:00 pm
Rm 3425 CSS
Prof. Ray Najjar
Department of Meteorology, The Pennsylvania State University
Modeling photochemistry in Sargasso Sea surface waters
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May 4 at 1:00 pm Rm 3425 CSS
Dr. Sim Aberson
Hurricane Research Division/AOML/NOAA
Targeting dropwindsonde data to improve hurricane forecasts (1997-1998)
Special seminar
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May 3
Dr. David P. Bacon
Director, Center for Atmospheric Physics/Science Applications International Corporation
OMEGA: Multiscale weather forecasting using adaptive unstructured grids
Special seminar
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April 26
Dr. Eugene M. Rasmusson
Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland
On the trail of ENSO: Part I (1867-1969) A fascinating tale of scientific progress and missteps
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April 19
Dr. Winston Chao
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
On the origin of monsoon and its onset
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April 12
Dr. Michael Mishchenko
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (New York)
Global climatology of aerosol properties over the ocean for the period of NOAA-9 observations based on two-channel AVHRR retrievals
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April 5
Dr. Darryn W. Waugh
Department of Earth & Planetary Science, Johns Hopkins University
Intrusions into the tropical upper troposphere
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March 29
Dr. Joe Friday
National Research Council
Policy Issues in the Practice of Meteorology
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March 19 at 3:00 pm Rm 3425 CSS
Yoshiaki Takeuchi
Numerical Prediction Division, Japan Meteorological Agency
The variational assimilation system for global and mesoscale NWP model developed by JMA
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March 15
Dr. Arnold Gruber
National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS)/NOAA
Recent results from the Global Precipitation Climatology Project
Special seminar
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March 8
Dr. Ron McPherson
Executive Director of the American Meteorological Society
What's New with the American Meteorological Society
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Mar. 2 at 12:00 pm Rm 3425 CSS
Dr. Brooke L. Hemming
Office of International Activities - Environmental Protection Agency
Thermodynamics of Aerosol-Phase Atmospheric Organics: Temperature and Humidity Effects
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March 1
Dr. Peter M. Lyster
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC)/ U. Maryland
High-end computing and Kalman filter development for data assimilation
Special seminar
(joint Atm. Chem. talks)
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February 22
Dr. James Christian
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC)/ U. Maryland
Biogeochemical modelling of the tropical Pacific Ocean
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February 15
Dr. Alan K. Betts
Atmospheric Research
Contrasting the land-surface-atmosphere interaction at boreal latitudes and in the tropics
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February 8
Dr. Zhaohua Wu
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies
"Baking Bread": A Poor Chef's Recipe for Thermally Driven Circulations in the Tropics
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February 1
Dr. Muthuvel Chelliah
Climate Prediction Center/National Centers for Environmental Prediction/NOAA
Interdecadal and ENSO related changes in tropical convection and associated global impacts
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2000
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December 7
Dr. Eugene M. Rasmusson
Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland
On the trail of ENSO: Part I (1867-1969) A fascinating tale of scientific progress and missteps
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December 4 at 3:30 pm
Rm 2114 CSS
Dr. N. H. Saji
Institute for Global Change Research, Frontier Research System for Global Change, Tokyo
A View of the Indian Ocean Climate System From the Vantage Point of Dipole Mode Events
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November 30
Dr. Frank Evans
Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences/ University of Colorado
Retrieving and simulating cloud fields from ARM radar observations
Special seminar (jointly sponsored with ESSIC)
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November 16
Dr. Pao K. Wang
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Physical and Dynamical Processes at Cloud-top Level of Severe Thunderstorms
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November 9
Dr. Ants Leetmaa
Climate Prediction Center - NOAA/National Centers for Environmental Prediction
Monitoring and Forecasting Drought
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November 2
Dr. Ming CaiÂ
Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland
A theory on prevailing easterlies and zonally tilted thermocline over equatorial Pacific and the accompanying ENSO variability
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Oct. 31 at 11:00 am
Rm 3425 CSS
Dr. Hee-Sang Lee
Department of Meteorology/Florida State University
Improvement of initial state of clouds and its impact on cloud forecasts in the Florida State University Global Spectral Model
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October 26
Dr. Robert Hudson
Department of Meteorology/University of Maryland
Detection of decadal climate change from the total Ozone record
Special seminar
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October 19
Dr. Dennis Lettenmaier
Department of Civil Engineering - University of Washington
Challenges and opportunities in macroscale hydrology
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Oct. 18 at 3:00 pm
Rm 3425 CSS
Dr. K. R. Saha
Former Director of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology
African Monsoons
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Oct. 17 at 3:00 pm
Rm 3206 Math Bldg
Dr. Lennart Bengtsson
Director, Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology
Will extreme weather events become more common in a future climate?
Special seminar
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October 12
Dr. Anne Thompson
NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center and Department of Meteorology/University of Maryland
Tropospheric Ozone Observations: An overview of recent advances
Special seminar
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October 5
Drs. Ming Cai and Eugenia Kalnay
Department of Meteorology/University of Maryland
The growing errors in the Cane-Zebiak coupled ocean-atmosphere model
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September 28
Dr. Dale J. Allen
Department of Meteorology/University of Maryland
Lightning and Atmospheric Chemistry as Simulated with a Global Chemical Transport Model
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September 21
Dr. Jean Côté
Meteorological Service of Canada - Numerical Methods Group
Algorithmic developments around the Global Environmental Multiscale (GEM) model
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September 19
at 3:00 pm
Special seminar
Dr. Thomas Cuff
U.S. Naval Observatory - Washington, DC
Operational Weather and Oceanography in the U.S. Navy
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September 14
Dr. Dmitri Chalikov
Ocean Modeling Branch - NOAA/National Centers for Environmental Prediction
Development of the Ocean Forecasting System for MPP computers
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September 7
Drs. Ming Cai and Eugenia Kalnay
Department of Meteorology/University of Maryland
SEMINAR CANCELED - New date: October 5
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July 24:
Special seminar
Dr. Istvan Szunyogh
NOAA/National Centers for Environmental Prediction
Relationship between atmospheric baroclinic waves and the impact of targetted observations
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May 18 Empirical Orthogonal Teleconnections
Dr. Huug Van den Dool
Climate Prediction Center, NOAA/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD
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May 12 (Friday) Special Seminar
Time: 10:00am; Room: 3425 Location and intensity of the ITCZ: Effects of westward-propagating synoptic-scale disturbances
Prof. C. Zhang
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS), University of Miami, Miami, Florida
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May 11
Time: 3:30pm Aerosol effects on climate
Prof. John Seinfeld
Chair, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
(co-sponsored by the Department of Chemical Engineering)
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May 5
(Friday) Special Seminar
Time: 3:30pm; Room: 3425?? Farming strategies for variable climate--a challenge
Prof. Sulochana Gadgil
Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
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May 4 Tornadogenesis within supercell storms
Prof. Roger Wakimoto
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
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May 1
(Monday) Special Seminar
Time: 3:30pm; Room: 3425?? Direct and inverse methods for estimating influence areas for the atmosphere of a given region: Theory and numerical experiments
Prof. Gdaly Rivin
Head, Laboratory of the Modeling of Atmospheric Processes, Inst. of Computational Technologies, Novosibirsk, Russia
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April 27 Predictability and the relationship between subseasonal and interannual variability during the Asian summer monsoon
Dr. Ken Sperber
Program for Climate Model Diagnostics and Intercomparison (PCMDI), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA
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April 20 Madden Julian Oscillation (MJO) prediction and predictability
Prof. Duane Waliser
Institute for Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres, State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook, New York
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April 13 Variational data assimilation using quasi-inverse method: Application to storm-scale prediction
Dr. Seon Ki Park
Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
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April 6
Decadal Variability in the North Atlantic
Dr. Sirpa Hakkinen
Oceans & Ice Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
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March 30
Convection and radiation in TOGA COARE: Implications for tropical atmospheric circulations
Prof. Richard Johnson
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
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March 29
(Wednesday) Special Seminar
Time: 2:00pm; Room: 3425 Investigation of surface and subsurface variability in the tropical Pacific using Cyclostationary EOF analysisd
Prof. Kwang-Yul Kim
Department of Meteorology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
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March 27
(Monday) Special Seminar
Time: 3:00pm; Room: 3425?? A concept to find and verify the slow manifold using local and global models in climate integrations
Dr. Juergen Steppeler
DWD, Offenbach, Germany
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March 16
Trace gas observations during the 1999 Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX)
Dr. Armin Hansel
University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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March 9
The Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX): Impact of continental emissions on the composition and radiative properties of the marine atmosphere
Prof. Russ Dickerson
Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland, Colllege Park, Maryland
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February 24
Where does the rainwater come from? Applying a back-trajectory scheme to atmospheric water vapor
Dr. Paul Dirmeyer
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, IGES, Calverton, MD
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February 17
Recent innovations that enhance global and regional climate modeling
Prof. Ferdinand Baer
Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
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February 10
The nonhydrostatic Global Environmental Multiscale (GEM) Model
Dr. Kao-San Yeh
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), University of Maryland, College Park, MD
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February 3
Dynamical analysis of the Pacific/North American (PNA) Pattern of Winter Variability
Dr. Sumant Nigam
Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
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1999
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December 9
Oceanic normal modes and application to problems of ocean tides and circulation
Dr. D. B. Rao
Environmental Modeling Center, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, NOAA, Camp Springs, MD
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December 8
(Wednesday) Special Seminar
Time: 3:30pm; Room: 2114
(Classroom in OLD wing of CSS Bldg) Global energy budgets of the atmosphere: Recent results from ERA and NCEP Reanalyses
Dr. Kevin Trenberth
Climate and Global Dynamics division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
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December 2
NCEP: Vision for 2000-2005 and related strategic issues
Dr. Louis Uccellini
Director, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, NOAA/NWS, Camp Springs, MD
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November 18
Mesoscale modeling of orographic precipitation over the Pacific Northwest
Prof. Brian Colle
Institute for Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres, Marine Sciences Research Center
State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY
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November 16
(Tuesday) Special Seminar
Time: 3:30pm; Room: 3425 Atmospheric and Oceanographic Analyses and Forecasts for the Chesapeake Bay Region during the
Coastal Marine Demonstration Project
Dr. Frank Aikman III
Chief, Oceanographic Programs, Coast Survey Development Lab., National Ocean Service, NOAA, Silver Spring
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November 11
Recent research in tropospheric chemistry
Prof. Daniel Jacob
Department of Chemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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November 8
(Monday) Special Seminar
Time: 2:00pm; Room: 3425 Disturbances of the summer monsoon over Australia
Dr. K. R. Saha
Former Director, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India
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November 4
Wetter but Less Extreme: 20th Century Trends in Floods, Droughts, and Everything in Between
Dr. Harry Lins
Office of Surface Water, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia
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October 28
Seasonal predictions with NASA/GEOS-2 general circulation model
Dr. Siegfried Schubert
Data Assimilation Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
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October 21
Magnetospheric Modeling for Space Weather
Prof. Konstantinos Papadopoulos
Departments of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
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October 14
The Environmental Modeling Center: Present status and future plans
Dr. Steven Lord
Environmental Modeling Center, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, NOAA, Camp Springs, MD
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October 7
Shortwave radiation absorption in clear and cloudy skies
Prof. Catherine Gautier
Director, Institute for Computational Earth System Science
University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
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September 30
Co-sponsored by ESSIC Evaluating regional-scale photochemical models and using them for guiding emissions management
Prof. S. T. Rao
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Albany, NY
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, State University of New York at Albany, NY
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September 23
Tropical pipes and Taylor pipes, Baker's maps, random walks and eggbeaters: A survey of mixing and transport in the stratosphere
Dr. Lynn Sparling
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
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September 17
(Friday) Special Seminar
Time: 3:30pm; Room: 3425 Satellite altimetry observations of the Black Sea
Dr. Gennady Korotaev
Deputy Director, Marine Hydrophysical Institute of the Ukraine Academy of Science, Ukraine
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September 16
Bio-optical Properties of the Marine Cyanobacteria Trichodesmium and its role in climate change
Dr. Ajit Subramaniam
Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
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