February 3 |
Dynamical analysis of the Pacific/North American (PNA) Pattern of
Winter Variability Dr. Sumant Nigam Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland |
February 10 |
The nonhydrostatic Global Environmental Multiscale (GEM) Model Dr. Kao-San Yeh Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), University of Maryland, College Park, MD |
February 17 |
Recent innovations that
enhance global and regional climate modeling Prof. Ferdinand Baer Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD |
February 24 |
Where does the rainwater come from? Applying a back-trajectory
scheme to atmospheric water vapor Dr. Paul Dirmeyer Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, IGES, Calverton, MD |
March 2 |
B Dr. Department of M |
March 9 |
The Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX): Impact of continental emissions on the
composition and radiative properties of the marine atmosphere Prof. Russ Dickerson Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland, Colllege Park, Maryland |
March 16 |
Trace gas observations during the 1999 Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX) Dr. Armin Hansel University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria |
March 23 |
S P R I N G B R E A K    W E E K |
March 27 (Monday) Special Seminar Time: 3:00pm;   Room: 3425?? |
A concept to find and verify the slow manifold using local and global models in
climate integrations Dr. Juergen Steppeler DWD, Offenbach, Germany |
March 29 (Wednesday) Special Seminar Time: 2:00pm;   Room: 3425 |
Investigation of surface and subsurface variability in the tropical Pacific
using Cyclostationary EOF analysisd Prof. Kwang-Yul Kim Department of Meteorology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida |
March 30 |
Convection and radiation in TOGA COARE: Implications for tropical atmospheric circulations Prof. Richard Johnson Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado |
April 6 |
Decadal Variability in the North Atlantic Dr. Sirpa Hakkinen Oceans & Ice Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland |
April 13 |
Variational data assimilation using quasi-inverse method: Application to storm-scale prediction Dr. Seon Ki Park Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland |
April 20 |
Madden Julian Oscillation (MJO) prediction and predictability Prof. Duane Waliser Institute for Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres, State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook, New York |
April 27 |
Predictability and the relationship between subseasonal and interannual
variability during the Asian summer monsoon Dr. Ken Sperber Program for Climate Model Diagnostics and Intercomparison (PCMDI), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA |
May 1 (Monday) Special Seminar Time: 3:30pm;   Room: 3425?? |
Direct and inverse methods for estimating influence areas for the atmosphere of a given region: Theory and numerical experiments Prof. Gdaly Rivin Head, Laboratory of the Modeling of Atmospheric Processes, Inst. of Computational Technologies, Novosibirsk, Russia |
May 4 |
Tornadogenesis within supercell storms Prof. Roger Wakimoto Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA |
May 5 (Friday) Special Seminar Time: 3:30pm;   Room: 3425?? |
Farming strategies for variable climate--a challenge Prof. Sulochana Gadgil Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India |
May 11 Time: 3:30pm |
Aerosol effects on climate Prof. John Seinfeld Chair, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (co-sponsored by the Department of Chemical Engineering) |
May 12 (Friday) Special Seminar Time: 10:00am;   Room: 3425 |
Location and intensity of the ITCZ: Effects of westward-propagating synoptic-scale disturbances Prof. C. Zhang Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS), University of Miami, Miami, Florida |
May 18 |
Empirical Orthogonal Teleconnections Dr. Huug Van den Dool Climate Prediction Center, NOAA/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD |
July
24:
Special seminar |
Dr. Istvan Szunyogh
NOAA/National Centers for Environmental Prediction Relationship between atmospheric baroclinic waves and the impact of targetted observations |
September 7
|
Drs. Ming Cai and Eugenia Kalnay
Department of Meteorology/University of Maryland SEMINAR CANCELED - New date: October 5 |
September 14
|
Dr. Dmitri Chalikov
Ocean Modeling Branch - NOAA/National Centers for Environmental Prediction Development of the Ocean Forecasting System for MPP computers |
September 19
at 3:00 pm Special seminar |
Dr. Thomas Cuff
U.S. Naval Observatory - Washington, DC Operational Weather and Oceanography in the U.S. Navy |
September 21
|
Dr. Jean Côté
Meteorological Service of Canada - Numerical Methods Group Algorithmic developments around the Global Environmental Multiscale (GEM) model |
September 28
|
Dr. Dale J. Allen
Department of Meteorology/University of Maryland Lightning and Atmospheric Chemistry as Simulated with a Global Chemical Transport Model |
October 5
|
Drs. Ming Cai and Eugenia Kalnay
Department of Meteorology/University of Maryland The growing errors in the Cane-Zebiak coupled ocean-atmosphere model |
October 12
|
Dr. Anne Thompson
NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center and Department of Meteorology/University of Maryland Tropospheric Ozone Observations: An overview of recent advances |
Special seminar
Oct. 17 at 3:00 pm Rm 3206 Math Bldg |
Dr. Lennart Bengtsson
Director, Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology Will extreme weather events become more common in a future climate? |
Special seminar
Oct. 18 at 3:00 pm Rm 3425 CSS |
Dr. K. R. Saha
Former Director of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology African Monsoons |
October 19
|
Dr. Dennis Lettenmaier
Department of Civil Engineering - University of Washington Challenges and opportunities in macroscale hydrology |
October 26
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Dr. Robert Hudson
Department of Meteorology/University of Maryland Detection of decadal climate change from the total Ozone record |
Special seminar
Oct. 31 at 11:00 am Rm 3425 CSS |
Dr. Hee-Sang Lee
Department of Meteorology/Florida State University Improvement of initial state of clouds and its impact on cloud forecasts in the Florida State University Global Spectral Model |
November 2
|
Dr. Ming CaiĀ
Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland A theory on prevailing easterlies and zonally tilted thermocline over equatorial Pacific and the accompanying ENSO variability |
November 9
|
Dr. Ants Leetmaa
Climate Prediction Center - NOAA/National Centers for Environmental Prediction Monitoring and Forecasting Drought |
November 16
|
Dr. Pao K. Wang
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences - University of Wisconsin-Madison Physical and Dynamical Processes at Cloud-top Level of Severe Thunderstorms |
November
23
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THANKSGIVING RECESS |
November 30
|
Dr. Frank Evans
Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences/ University of Colorado Retrieving and simulating cloud fields from ARM radar observations |
Special seminar (jointly sponsored with ESSIC)
December 4 at 3:30 pm Rm 2114 CSS |
Dr. N. H. Saji
Institute for Global Change Research, Frontier Research System for Global Change, Tokyo A View of the Indian Ocean Climate System From the Vantage Point of Dipole Mode Events |
December
7
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Dr. Eugene M.
Rasmusson
Department of Meteorology, University
of Maryland
On the trail of ENSO: Part I (1867-1969) A fascinating tale of scientific progress and missteps CANCELED AND TO BE RESCHEDULED FOR THE SPRING SERIES (due to schedule conflict with G. Philander's seminar; see http://www.physics.umd.edu/Seminar_List/thursday.html) |
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