Division of Ocean and Climate Physics (DOCP) 2009-2010 Seminars

Fridays 11am Gary C. Comer Geochemistry Building Seminar Room

Contact:

Schedule:
Summer semester 2009
June 29, 2009 (Monday, Seismology Seminar Room) - Peter Oke (CSIRO)
"Ensemble data assimilation: theory and practice"
July 27, 2009 (Monday) - Yossi Ashkenazy (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
"A new approach to the latitudinal dependence of extra-tropical Rossby waves"
Fall semester 2009
Sep. 11, 2009 - R. Dwi Susanto (LDEO)
"Indo-Pacific Throughflow"
Sep. 18, 2009 - Anthony J. Broccoli (Rutgers University)
"A New Look at Orbital Forcing of Climate: How Does Reduced Obliquity Cool the Earth?"
Sep. 23, 2009 (Wednesday, Lamont Hall) - Niklas Schneider (International Pacific Research Center)
"The Kuroshio large meander in a global eddy-resolving ocean hindcast"
Sep. 25, 2009 - Dick Ou (LDEO)
"Natural Variability in the Arctic: A Deductive Model"
Oct. 02, 2009 - William R. Boos (Harvard University)
"What causes the South Asian monsoon? Plateau heating vs. orographic insulation"
Oct. 09, 2009 - Lisa Goddard (IRI)
"El Nino-induced Tropical Drought in a Changing Climate"
Oct. 16, 2009 - Philip Richardson (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
"Albatross Soaring: Flying Around the World on Wind Shear and Updrafts over Waves"
Oct. 23, 2009 - Semyon Grodsky (University of Maryland)
"Observed subseasonal variability of the ocean mixed layer"
Oct. 30, 2009 - Timothy Hall (NASA GISS)
"Statistical Tropical Cyclone Model for the North Atlantic: SST and Landfall"
Nov. 06, 2009 - Arnold Gordon (LDEO)
"The Philippine Seas are really interesting"
Nov. 13, 2009 - Michela Biasutti (LDEO)
"Global Climate Change and Sahel Rainfall"
Nov. 20, 2009 - Noah S. Diffenbaugh (Stanford University)
"Dynamics and Impacts of Climate Change"
Dec. 04, 2009 - Anthony Del Genio (NASA GISS)
"What controls the transition from shallow to deep convection?"
Dec. 11, 2009 - Ronald L. Miller (NASA GISS)
"The Impact of Dust Aerosols On the Atmospheric Circulation and Hydrological Cycle"
Dec. 16, 2009 (Wednesday) - Robert Field (University of Toronto)
"Fire in Indonesia: the roles of drought and land use in causing a singularly large source of pollution"
Spring semester 2010
Jan. 22, 2010 - Hamish Ramsay (NASA, GISS)
"The effects of relative and absolute sea surface temperature on tropical cyclone potential intensity using a single column model "
Jan. 29, 2010 - Michael Previdi (LDEO)
"Radiative Feedbacks on Global Precipitation"
Feb. 05, 2010 - Adam Showman (University of Arizona)
"Atmospheric Dynamics of the Giant Planets"
Feb. 08, 2010 (Monday) - Mark Miller (Rutgers University)
"The Climate of the West African Sahel Region and its Representation in Global Climate Models"
Feb. 12, 2010 - Annalisa Bracco (Georgia Institute of Technology)
"Interannual to decadal variability in the Indian Ocean and the role of the Tropical Atlantic"
Feb. 19, 2010 - Nico Kienzl (Atelier Ten)
"Shaping a More Sustainable World - Current Developments in the Built Environment"
Feb. 26, 2010 - CANCELLED
Mar. 03, 2010 (3:30pm, Wednesday) - Dudley Chelton (Oregon State University)
"Global Satellite Altimeter Observations of Nonlinear Mesoscale Eddies"
Mar. 05, 2010 - Julie Pullen (Stevens Institute of Technology)
"Maritime Security Research in NY/NJ Harbor"
Mar. 12, 2010 - Caroline Muller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Relationship between tropical precipitation and water vapor in current climate and under warming"
Mar. 22, 2010 (Monday, Seismology Seminar Room) - Gang Chen (Cornell University)
"Sensitivity of zonal mean atmospheric circulation to SST perturbations in aqua-planet AGCMs"
Mar. 24, 2010 (10:00am, Wednesday) - Gad Levy (NorthWest Research Associates - Seattle)
"Indian Ocean Near-Equatorial Symmetric Stability from Satellite Observations: An Illusive Connection to Atmospheric Convection"
Mar. 26, 2010 - Martin Tingley (Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute)
"High Northern Latitude Temperature Extremes over the Last 600 Years"
Apr. 02, 2010 - Chris Thorncroft (University at Albany, State University of New York)
"A Multiscale analysis of the West African Monsoon"
Apr. 09, 2010 - David Small (Tufts University)
"Tropical Linkage to Trends in Fall Hydroclimate over the United States"
Apr. 16, 2010 - Guiling Wang (University of Connecticut)
"Role of Soil Moisture and Vegetation Dynamics in Precipitation Variability at Sub-Seasonal to Decadal Time Scales"
Apr. 19, 2010 (Monday) - Gilbert Compo (CIRES Climate Diagnostic Center, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory)
"The 20th Century Reanalysis Project"
Apr. 23, 2010 (9:45am, Monell Auditorium) - Chris Zappa (DOCP, LDEO)
"Influence of Ocean Surface Processes on Air-Sea Gas Transfer"
Apr. 23, 2010 - Shuguang Wang (Columbia University)
"Stratosphere-troposphere Coupling in a Relatively Simple AGCM: the Impact of Global Warming"
Apr. 30, 2010 - In-Sik Kang (Seoul National University)
"Prediction and Predictability of Intraseasonal Variability: Impact of Initialization"
May 3, 2010 (Monday) - James Holte (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
"An Argo Mixed Layer Depth Climatology: Method and Applications"
May 7, 2010 - Keith Rodgers (Princeton University)
"Modulations of Seasonality in the Carbon Cycle under Anthropogenic Climate Change: An Analysis of Coupled Climate/Carbon Models"
May 14, 2010 - Brian Farrell (Harvard University)
"The Great Drying: Abrupt Climate Change and Extinction of the Megafauna"
May 21, 2010 - Samantha Stevenson (University of Colorado at Boulder)
TBA
Jun. 04, 2010 - Naoyuki Kurita (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC))
TBA
Jun. 11, 2010 - Robin Robertson (Australian Defence Force Academy)
TBA
Jun. 18, 2010 - James Ledwell (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
TBA