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Unless stated otherwise, seminars are on Thursdays from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Auditorium (Rm. 2400) on the second floor of the New Wing of the Computer and Space Science Building.

Coffee, tea and cookies are served in the adjoining Atrium at 3:00 p.m.

September

September 4
The economics of climate change
Prof. Tom Schelling
Dep't. of Economics
University of Maryland

September 11
New Developments in Ensemble Kalman Filters
Prof. Eugenia Kalnay
AOSC, U. Maryland

September 18
Impact of Climate Change on Global Viticulture
Prof. Anthony Busalacchi
ESSIC, U. Maryland
Abstract


September 25
Fears, Fantasies, and the Possibility of Climate Control: A useable history of climate engineering
Prof. James Flemming
Colby College
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff:

October

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:


October 9
SST gradients, boundary layer convergence and a simple model of climatological rainfall and latent heating profiles over the tropical oceans.
Dr. Larissa Back
M.I.T.
Contact: Sumant Nigam:

October 16
Forced and Natural Multi-decadal Variability in Coupled Models and Observations: the North Atlantic SST and Sahel Rainfall
Dr. Mingfang Ting
LDEO/Columbia University
Contact: Renu Joseph:

October 23
TBA

October 30
TBA
Prof. David Randall
U. Colorado
Contact: Sumant Nigam:

November

November 6
Stratosphere-Troposphere Dynamical Coupling and Tropospheric Predictability
Dr. Ed Gerber
Columbia University
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff:

November 13
Impacts of Global Change on Regional Air Quality
Prof. Tracey Holloway
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Contact: Russ Dickerson:

November 20
Hurricanes in the Climate System
Prof. Kerry Emanuel
M.I.T.
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff:

November 27
Thanksgiving, no lecture

December

December 4
TBA


December 11
TBA
 
 
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