Previous CGD Seminar Series
2016-2017 Seminars
| Cheryl Harrison, NCAR/CGD | Effects of mesoscale turbulence on carbon export: a global perspective [abstract] |
| Gunilla Svensson, Stockholm University | Observations and modeling of the atmospheric boundary layer and its impact on the general circulation [abstract] [ video] |
| Clara Draper, NASA | Land data assimilation, and the use of land surface observations in NASA's reanalysis program [abstract] [ video] |
| Yuanlong Li, CU | Decadal acceleration of upper Indian Ocean warming [abstract] [video] |
| Bas van Ruijven, NCAR/CGD | Impacts of climate change on building energy use [abstract] [video] |
| Gerald Meehl, NCAR/CGD | Antarctic sea ice should be melting but it’s not: Connections to global temperature trends and decadal variability in the tropical Pacific [abstract] [ video] |
| Jorge Sarmiento, Princeton University | The Outsized Role of the Southern Ocean in the Regulation of Carbon, Heat, and Biological Productivity [abstract] [ video] |
| Elizabeth Maroon, CIRES | The influence of the Rocky Mountains on the ocean's Meridional Overturning Circulation [abstract] [ video] |
| Hannah Christensen, NCAR/CGD | Revisiting the parametrization problem [abstract] [video] |
| Alistair Rogers, Brookhaven National Laboratory | The Representation of Photosynthesis in Earth System Models [abstract] [video] |
| Erik Larson, NOAA | CMIP5 estimate of Earth's energy budget [abstract] [video] |
| Brian Toon, CU/LASP | Climate change on Mars [abstract] [video] |
| *Ali Mashayek, MIT | Overturning the circulation of the ocean [abstract] [video] |
| *Satoshi Kimura, Nansen Environmental and Remotee Sensing Center | Oceanographic controls on the variability of ice-shelf basal melting and circulations of glacial meltwater in the Amundsen Sea Embayment [abstract] [ video] |
| *Simone Marras, Stanford University | Some numerical challenges in computational fluid dynamics for atmospheric and ocean simulations [abstract] [ video] |
| Jadwiga Richter, NCAR/CGD | The quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO): Past, present, and the future [abstract] [ video] |
| *Bill Lipscomb, Los Alamos National Lab | Modeling Ice Sheets and Sea Level with the Community Earth System Model [abstract] [ video] |
| *Dan Whitt, NCAR/CGD | Exploring mesoscale-to-submesoscale Earth system dynamics in the upper ocean: How unsteady winds fuel phytoplankton growth at ocean fronts [abstract] [ video] |
| *Scott Bachman, University of Cambridge | Muddied waters: Large-scale ocean eddy closures for CMIP6 and beyond [abstract] [ video] |
| Andrew Gettelman, NCAR/CGD | The Importance of Cloud Microphysics for Climate Forcing and Feedbacks [abstract] [ video] |
| Kristopher Karnauskas, CU Boulder | Detecting the influence of the Hadley circulation on Atlantic hurricanes through OLR [abstract] [ video] |
| Peter Sullivan, NCAR/MMM | Boundary-layer induced frontogenesis in the ocean surface layer [abstract] [video] |
| Cassandra Brooks, Stanford University | Policies for managing the global commons: The case of marine protected areas in Antarctica [abstract] [ video] |
| Isla Simpson, NCAR/CGD | Why do modelled and observed surface stress climatologies differ in the trade-wind regions? [abstract] [ video] |
| Brian Medeiros, NCAR/CGD | Trade-wind clouds in climate models: How bad is good enough? [abstract] [video] |
| Patrick Laloyaux, ECMWF | Earth system climate reanalyses at ECMWF [abstract] [ video] |
| Sebastian Ortega, Georgia Institute of Technology | The planetary scale circulation of the tropical upper troposphere and its influence on tropical weather [abstract] [ video] |
| Jessica Luo, NCAR/CGD | Gelatinous zooplankton in marine ecosystems: a neglected but critical link in the ocean carbon cycle [abstract] [ video] |
| Ahmed Tawfik, NCAR/CGD | When does the land surface matter? Surface-Convection Feedbacks and Models [abstract] [video] |
| Kathleen Pegion, George Mason University | Which Predictability Estimates are Most Realistic? [abstract] [video] |
| Colin Zarzycki, NCAR/CGD | Tracking extremes in climate data: community defragging and understanding uncertainty [abstract] [ video] |
| Alice DuVivier, NCAR/CGD | Modeled air-sea interactions around southeastern Greenland [abstract] [video] |
| Liz Drenkard, Rutgers | Anticipating Pacific Coral Reef Resilience and Susceptibility to Climate Variability [abstract] [video] |
| Kevin Trenberth, NCAR/CGD | Implications of Earth’s energy imbalance for surface fluxes and especially ocean heat transports [abstract] [ video] |
| Reto Knutti, ETH Zurich | Climate sensitivity, the limits of linear models and implications for science and society [abstract] [video] |
| Jennifer Balch, CU Boulder | Frontier fire in the Amazon: Local to global consequences of human-altered fire regimes in tropical forests[abstract] [video] |
| Judith Berner, NCAR/CGD | Improving ENSO variability in the Community Earth System model by increasing resolution and introducing stochastic perturbations [abstract] [ video] |
* CGD Scientist Candidate