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2018-2019 Seminars

Date Speaker Seminar Info
4-Sept-2018 Paul Dirmeyer, George Mason University The role of the land surface in weather and climate
[Abstract] [Video]
11-Sept-2018 Kevin Trenberth, NCAR The changing flow of energy through the Earth's Climate System
[Abstract] [Video]
17-Sept-2018
*Monday*
Lei Zhang, University of Colorado Ningaloo Niño and its role in the inter-basin coupling
[Abstract] [Video]
25-Sept-2018 William Collins, Lawrence-Berkeley National Laboratory The Radiative Drivers of Climate Change: Known Knowns and Known Unknowns
[Abstract] [Video]
1-Oct-2018
*Monday*
Isla Simpson, NCAR Modelled and observed multi-decadal variability in the North Atlantic jet stream
[Abstract] [Video]
9-Oct-2018 Genevieve Jay Brett, University of Hawaii The Western Alboran Gyre, its properties, and their exchange
[Abstract]
16-Oct-2018 Seminar Cancelled
23-Oct-2018 Toby Ault, Cornell University A glimpse of mid-century megadrought risk in low-warming scenarios from large ensemble, multi-model, observational, and paleoclimate perspectives
[Abstract] [Video]
30-Oct-2018 Colin Zarzycki, NCAR The intersection of weather, climate, and societal hazards: projecting future "Snowmageddons" with the CESM Large Ensemble
[Abstract] [Video]
6-Nov-2018 Jacob Wenegrat, Stanford University Into the deep: Submesoscale turbulence in the ocean bottom boundary layer
[Abstract] [Video]
13-Nov-2018 Lucas Laurindo, University of Miami Cross-spectral analysis of the SST 10-m wind speed coupling resolved by satellite products and climate model simulations
[Abstract] [Video]
20-Nov-2018 Kathy Pegion, George Mason University The Subseasonal Experiment (SubX)
[Abstract] [Video]
27-Nov-2018 Kristopher Karnauskas, University of Colorado Boulder The feedback of hurricane cold wakes on tropical cyclones
[Abstract] [Video]
4-Dec-2018 Xianyao Chen, Ocean University of China Changing Phases of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and its Impact on Global Climate
[Abstract] [Video]
11-Dec-2018 AGU - No Seminar
18-Dec-2018 Seminar Cancelled
25-Dec-2018 thru 8-Jan-2019 :: Winter Break & AMS
14-Jan-2019
*Monday*
Gent Symposium
22-Jan-2019 Ian Eisenman, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Iceberg dynamics in modern and glacial oceans
[Abstract] [Video]
28-Jan-2019
*Monday*
Nedjeljka Zagar, University of Ljubljana Estimating Scale-Dependent Temporal Variability
[Abstract]
5-Feb-2019 William Lipscomb, NCAR Progress in modeling ice sheets in the Community Earth System Model
[Abstract] [Video]
6-Feb-2019 *Special Seminar* Julio Bacmeister, NCAR Evaluating a new mountain wave parameterization for CESM
[Abstract][Video]
12-Feb-2019 Marysa Laguë, University of Washington Separating the impact of individual land surface properties on both the coupled and un-coupled land-atmosphere system
[Abstract][Video]
19-Feb-2019 Eleanor Middlemas, University of Colorado Quantifying contributions of cloud radiative feedbacks and ocean heat transport to sea surface temperature variability
[Abstract][Video]
26-Feb-2019 Pedro DiNezio, University of Texas Glacial lessons on tropical climate change
[Abstract][Video]
5-Mar-2019 Michael Spall, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution A simple model for the Transpolar Drift and mean ice thickness in the Arctic Ocean
[Abstract][Video]
12-Mar-2019 Seminar Cancelled
18-Mar-2019
*Monday*
James Done, NCAR Understanding the Role of Decadal Climate Prediction in Climate Risk Management
[Abstract][Video]
26-Mar-2019 Xiyue (Sally) Zhang, NCAR Response of Resolved Polar Clouds to Idealized Climate Change
[Abstract]
2-Apr-2019 Ho-Hsuan Wei, University of Colorado Energetic constraints on seasonal migrations of the ITCZ
[Abstract]
9-Apr-2019 Abby Swann, University of Washington Quantifying the role that terrestrial ecosystems play in Earth's climate
[Abstract][Video]
16-Apr-2019 Ufuk Turuncoglu Toward modular in situ visualization in Earth System models: the regional modeling system RegESM 1.1 and its applications
[Abstract][Video]
23-Apr-2019 Libby Barnes, Thompson Lecture Series, Colorado State University Extracting climate signals from the noise with machine learning
[Abstract][Video]
30-Apr-2019 Angel Adames, University of Michigan Water vapor,precipitation,and tropical waves: what can we learn from simple models?
[Abstract][Video]
7-May-2019 Gerald Meehl, NCAR Does the Atlantic drive the Pacific, or the Pacific drive the Atlantic?
[Abstract][Video]
14-May-2019 Marika Holland, NCAR, Joint CGD seminar and 2019 IASC Medal Lecture Perspectives on predicting Arctic sea ice
[Abstract][Video]
21-May-2019 Aneesh Subramanian, University of Colorado Exploring stochastic and multiscale modeling for improving weather and climate models
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28-May-2019 Deepak Cherian, NCAR The seasonal cycle of upper-ocean mixing in the Bay of Bengal
[Abstract][Video]