DEPARTMENT OF METEOROLOGY
SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT
FALL 1999

September 2 Do low clouds thin or thicken as climate warms?
Dr. Anthony Delgenio
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY
September 9 Determination of meteorological fronts from total ozone data
Prof. Robert Hudson
Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
September 16 Bio-optical Properties of the Marine Cyanobacteria Trichodesmium and its role in climate change
Dr. Ajit Subramaniam
Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
September 17
(Friday) Special Seminar
Time: 3:30pm;   Room: 3425
Satellite altimetry observations of the Black Sea
Dr. Gennady Korotaev
Deputy Director, Marine Hydrophysical Institute of the Ukraine Academy of Science, Ukraine
September 23 Tropical pipes and Taylor pipes, Baker's maps, random walks and eggbeaters: A survey of mixing and transport in the stratosphere
Dr. Lynn Sparling
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
September 30
Co-sponsored by ESSIC
Evaluating regional-scale photochemical models and using them for guiding emissions management
Prof. S. T. Rao
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Albany, NY
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, State University of New York at Albany, NY
October 7 Shortwave radiation absorption in clear and cloudy skies
Prof. Catherine Gautier
Director, Institute for Computational Earth System Science
University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
October 14 The Environmental Modeling Center: Present status and future plans
Dr. Steven Lord
Environmental Modeling Center, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, NOAA, Camp Springs, MD
October 21 Magnetospheric Modeling for Space Weather
Prof. Konstantinos Papadopoulos
Departments of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
October 28 Seasonal predictions with NASA/GEOS-2 general circulation model
Dr. Siegfried Schubert
Data Assimilation Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
November 4 Wetter but Less Extreme: 20th Century Trends in Floods, Droughts, and Everything in Between
Dr. Harry Lins
Office of Surface Water, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia
November 8
(Monday) Special Seminar
Time: 2:00pm;   Room: 3425
Disturbances of the summer monsoon over Australia
Dr. K. R. Saha
Former Director, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India
November 11 Recent research in tropospheric chemistry
Prof. Daniel Jacob
Department of Chemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
November 16
(Tuesday) Special Seminar
Time: 3:30pm;   Room: 3425
Atmospheric and Oceanographic Analyses and Forecasts for the Chesapeake Bay Region during the
Coastal Marine Demonstration Project

Dr. Frank Aikman III
Chief, Oceanographic Programs, Coast Survey Development Lab., National Ocean Service, NOAA, Silver Spring
November 18 Mesoscale modeling of orographic precipitation over the Pacific Northwest
Prof. Brian Colle
Institute for Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres, Marine Sciences Research Center
State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY

November 25


T H A N K S G I V I N G    Holiday

December 2 NCEP: Vision for 2000-2005 and related strategic issues
Dr. Louis Uccellini
Director, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, NOAA/NWS, Camp Springs, MD
December 8
(Wednesday) Special Seminar
Time: 3:30pm;   Room: 2114
(Classroom in OLD wing of CSS Bldg)
Global energy budgets of the atmosphere: Recent results from ERA and NCEP Reanalyses
Dr. Kevin Trenberth
Climate and Global Dynamics division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
December 9 Oceanic normal modes and application to problems of ocean tides and circulation
Dr. D. B. Rao
Environmental Modeling Center, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, NOAA, Camp Springs, MD

Unless otherwise noted, all seminars are held in RM. 2400 (the auditorium on the second floor in the new wing of the Computer & Space Sci. Bldg.) at 3:30 p.m. Coffee and cookies are served at 3:00 p.m. Visitors park in Parking Garage 2 located across the street from the Computer & Space Sci. Bldg. Please park at visitors meters on the lower level; you must feed the meters. You cannot park in any numbered or lettered lots. Parking tickets incurred in these lots cannot be voided.

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