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2017-2018 Seminars

Date Speaker Seminar Info
12-Sep-2017 Jean-Francois Lamarque, NCAR The not-so-straight path from CESM1 to CESM2
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19-Sep-2017 Rhys Parfitt, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Why Are High-Resolution Western Boundary Currents Required to Properly Model Their Influence on Mid-latitude Weather and Climate?
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26-Sep-2017 Ahmed Tawfik, NCAR Building Convection from the Ground Up
[Abstract] [Video]
03-Oct-2017 Charles Bardeen, NCAR Using CESM to investigate cataclysmic events: Asteroids to Nuclear Winter
[Abstract] [Video]
10-Oct-2017 Bill Frey, University of Colorado The role of Southern Ocean cloud and climate interactions
[Abstract] [Video]
17-Oct-2017 Jim Fleming, Colby College Gordian Knots of Prevision: The lessons of history
[Abstract] [Video]
24-Oct-2017 Pedro DiNezio, University of Texas Prediction of 2-year La Nina using CESM
[Abstract] [Video]
31-Oct-2017 Kevin Trenberth, NCAR Covariability of hourly precipitation
[Abstract] [Video]
07-Nov-2017 Ben Sanderson, NCAR Do we need large ensembles?
[Abstract] [Video]
14-Nov-2017 Rich Neale, NCAR The Importance of Sub-seasonal Tropical Variability in CESM
[Abstract] [Video]
21-Nov-2017 Andrew Gettelman Through the Looking Glass: Forcing and Feedbacks in CESM2
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28-Nov-2017 Clay Tabor, NCAR Interpreting precession driven delta-O-18 variability in the South Asian monsoon region
[Abstract] [Video]
05-Dec-2017 Sarah Larson, University of Wisconsin A mechanically decoupled CESM: removing the wind-driven piece of climate
[Abstract] [Video]
12-Dec-2017 AGU - No Seminar
19-Dec-2017 Judith Berner, NCAR Role of perturbed frequency and damping for El Niño-Southern Oscillation irregularity
[Abstract] [Video]
26-Dec-2017 Winter Break
02-Jan-2018 Joanie Kleypas, NCAR Can the collapse of coral reef ecosystems be avoided?
[Abstract] [Video]
09-Jan-2018 AMS - No Seminar
16-Jan-2018 Jielun Sun, NCAR MMM Incorporating Non-hydrostatic Pressure Work in Thermal Energy Conservation - Implication of Thermal and Kinetic Energy Exchange
[Abstract] [Video]
23-Jan-2018 Aixue Hu, NCAR Internal climate variability and potentially avoided impacts of the projected future regional sea level rise
[Abstract] [Video]
25-Jan-2018 Special Seminar: Julia Slingo, UK Met Office Special CGD/MMM Joint Seminar: The Changing Landscape of Weather and Climate Risk (3:30 pm, FL2-1022)
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30-Jan-2018 Rachel Hoesly, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory The Community Emissions Data System (CEDS): data, emissions, and uncertainty estimates
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06-Feb-2018 Nicholas Parazoo, NASA Jet Propulstion Laboratory Land BGC and Societal Dimensions WG - Detecting Global Carbon-Climate Feedbacks: Recent lessons from NASA Observations and NCAR Models
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13-Feb-2018 Mitch Moncrieff, NCAR Organized Convection Parameterization for GCMs
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20-Feb-2018 Matt Long, NCAR Ocean BGC - Losing breath: the future of ocean oxygen
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27-Feb-2018 Dave Lawrence, NCAR Advances in land modeling: Implications for our understanding of land forcing and feedbacks on climate
[Abstract] [Video]
13-Mar-2018 Kevin Grise, University of Virginia Are the Tropics Expanding? Comparing Our Expectations from Climate Models with Observations
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20-Mar-2018 Marika Holland, NCAR Factors Influencing Regional Changes in Antarctic Sea Ice
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27-Mar-2018 Lorenzo Polvani, Columbia University Why has the tropical lower stratosphere stopped cooling for the last 20 years?
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03-Apr-2018 Matt Newman, NOAA Initialized climate forecasts without initialization
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10-Apr-2018 Arctic System Change Workshop - No Seminar [Agenda]
17-Apr-2018 Gerald Meehl, NCAR Tropical ocean decadal variability and connections to Antarctic and Arctic sea ice
[Abstract] [Video]
23-Apr-2018 Special Seminar: Laure Zanna, Univ. of Oxford Ocean Heat Uptake and Dynamic Sea Level Rise: Past and Future Uncertainty
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24-Apr-2018 Clara Deser, NCAR ENSO teleconnections and climate impacts over North America: How well do we know them and how do we evaluate models accordingly?
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01-May-2018 Andrew Bentley, University of Northern Colorado Belief in dissenter messages vs. anthropogenic climate change acceptance: A hard lesson in climate education
[Abstract] [Video] [Article]
08-May-2018 Justin Small, NCAR Importance of the ocean general circulation to Southern Ocean mixed layer formation
[Abstract] [Video]
15-May-2018 Simone Tilmes, NCAR CESM1(WACCM) Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering Large Ensemble (GLENS) Project
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22-May-2018 Allison Baker, NCAR CISL Optimizing Data Compression for CESM
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30-May-2018 *Wednesday* Haiyan Teng, NCAR Circumglobal Teleconnections and Linkages with Heat Waves in the Northern Hemisphere Summer
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