Seminar Series |
Spring 2003 Schedule
Seminar Series Committee
Dr. E. Hugo Berbery (chair) berbery@atmos.umd.edu
Dr. Ming Cai cai@atmos.umd.edu
Prof. Ferd Baer baer@atmos.umd.edu
Information for the speakers
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Instructions for the contact person
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Directions for Visitors
January 30
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Dr. Bill Stockwell
Office of Weather and Air Quality NOAA/OAR Mesoscale Air Quality Modeling of Ozone and Aerosol Contact person: Dr. Russ Dickerson |
February 6
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Dr. Fu-Lung Chang
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC)- University of Maryland Validation of a new cloud microphysical retrieval scheme applied to MODIS data Contact person: Dr. Zhanqing Li |
February 13
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Dr. Andrew Dessler
Department of Meteorology and Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC)- University of Maryland New developments in understanding troposphere-to-stratosphere transport: Isotopes and seasonal cycles Contact person: Dr. Ferd Baer |
February 20
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Dr. Oleg Dubovik
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center - GEST Center/UMBC Inversion of Spectral Aerosol Optical Thickness & Sky Radiance to Derive Aerosol Optical and Microphysical Properties from AERONET Contact person: Dr. Rachel Pinker |
February 27
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Professor Shoshiro Minobe
Division of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Hokkaido University Regime shifts, pentadecadal and bidecadal oscillations over the North Pacific Contact person: Dr. Roxana Wajsowicz |
March 6
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Dr. Mike Spall
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Deep convection east of Greenland: Atmospheric forcing and oceanic response Contact person: Dr. Roxana Wajsowicz |
March 13
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Dr. Robert Atlas
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center The Impact of Scatterometer Observations on Weather Prediction Contact person: Dr. Hugo Berbery |
March 20
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Dr. Siegfried Schubert
The Earth Sciences Directorate at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center The Impact of ENSO on Extreme Winter Weather over the United States Contact person: Dr. Tony Busalacchi |
March 27
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SPRING BREAK |
April 3
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Dr. Ming Cai
Department of Meteorology - University of Maryland Dynamical Implications of Atmospheric Eddies' Orientation Contact person: Dr. Eugenia Kalnay |
April 10
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Dr. Winston T. Luke
NOAA/Air Resources Laboratory (R/ARL) BRACE - Bay Region Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment: Overview and some early results Contact person: Dr. Russ Dickerson |
April 17
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Dr. Jim Collatz
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Interannual variability of the terrestrial carbon cycle Contact person: Dr. Ning Zeng |
April 24
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Dr. James Carton
Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland SODA POP -- a reanalysis of ocean climate Contact person: Dr. Da-Lin Zhang |
May 1
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Dr. David Considine
NASA Langley Research Center When are we going to get there? Problems in predicting the recovery of the stratospheric ozone hole Contact person: Dr. Andrew Dessler |
May 8
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Dr. Dmitri Chalikov
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center - University of Maryland Monin-Obukhov similarity theory. Revision and application to parameterization of mixing in upper ocean Contact person: Dr. Hugo Berbery |
May 9 at 11:00 am Special seminar Rm 3425 CSS |
Renu Joseph
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois Stationary wave response to climate change in a coupled GCM Contact person: Dr. Sumant Nigam |
May 15
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Dr. Arnold Gordon
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory - Columbia University The Coolness of the Indonesian Throughflow Contact person: Dr. Roxana Wajsowicz |
September 4
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Dr. Konstantin Vinnikov and Norman Grody (NESDIS/NOAA)
Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland Warming Trend in Satellite Observed Globally Averaged Tropospheric Mean Temperature Contact person: Dr. Hugo Berbery |
September 11
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Dr. Istvan Szunyogh; coauthors: E. Kostelich, B. Hunt, E. Ott, E.
Kalnay, G Gyarmati, D.J. Patil, J. Yorke and A. Zimin
Institute for Physical Science and Technology and Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland A Local Ensemble Kalman Filter for the NCEP Global Forecast System Contact person: Dr. Eugenia Kalnay |
September 18
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Dr. J. Marshall Shepherd
Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Can Cities Make Their Own Rainfall?: Recent Insights from new NASA Research - Contact person: Ms. Melanie Follette |
September 25
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Dr. Jose Rodriguez
RSMAS, University of Miami NASA's Global Modeling Initiative and the "Science of Assessment" Contact person: Dr. Tony Busalacchi |
October 2
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Dr. Raghu Murtugudde
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), University of Maryland 'Bio-Climate Feedbacks: Towards an Earth System Model? Contact person: Dr. Hugo Berbery |
October 9
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Dr. Larrabee Strow
University of Maryland, Baltimore County Early observations from the Advanced Infrared Sounder on Aqua Contact person: Dr. Andrew Dessler |
October 16
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Dr. Paul Dirmeyer
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA) Global soil wetness products: What can we believe? Contact person: Dr. Ning Zeng |
October 23
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Dr. J. Shukla
George Mason University and Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA) The Walker Family: ENSO, Monsoon and the Indian Ocean "dipole" Contact person: Dr. E. Kalnay |
October 30
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Dr. Andrew Robertson
International Research Institute for Climate Prediction (IRI) Downscaling of seasonal rainfall predictions over NE Brazil using a Hidden Markov Model Contact person: Dr. Hugo Berbery |
SPECIAL DATE--
FRIDAY November 7, 3:30 pm Room 2400 |
Dr. Michael Ghil
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, and University of California, Los Angeles Interannual Variability of the Wind-Driven Ocean Circulation: A New Source of Climate Predictability? Contact person: Dr. Eugenia Kalnay |
November 13
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Dr. William Lau
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Precipitation-Aerosol-Clouds interactions and Climate Change Contact person: Dr. Ning Zeng |
November 20
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Dr. Bernard Dugas
Numerical Prediction Research Division, Atmospheric Environment Service Results from the Global Environmental Multiscale (GEM) model at RPN Contact person: Dr. Michael Fox-Rabinovitz |
November 27
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THANKSGIVING |
December 4
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Dr. Mick Follows
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modulation of atmospheric CO2 by the oceans subtropical thermocline Contact person: Dr. Raghu Murtugudde |
December 11
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Dr. Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas
Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland Interannual Variability of Warm-Season Rainfall over the US Great Plains in NCAR/CAM2.0 and NASA/NSIPP Simulations Contact person: Dr. Sumant Nigam |
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. |
Directions to the Department of Meteorology |
Visitors attending the Thursday's Meteorology Seminars can park free at the
Regents Garage (PG 2) after 3:00 pm. Be sure to follow this procedure:
There will be a parking attendant at the Stadium Drive entrance,
to whom you must tell that you are attending a Department of Meteorology
Seminar.
He/she will give you a parking permit valid from 3:00 to 4:00 pm, and direct
you to the area where you can park. After 4:00 pm parking in this garage is open.
March 17, 2003: IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON PARKING: There is no certainty
that the Department of Campus Parking will have an attendant at Parking Garage
2. If you do not see an employee at the entrance over Stadium Drive, proceed to
Parking Garage 3, which is always attended. You can also check the University's Campus Maps (click on the Northwest Quadrant). - Parking area with attendant to the east of the building. To see location, go to Campus Maps and click on the Northeast Quadrant. - Stadium Parking, also known as Parking Garage 3 (PG-3). To see location, go to Campus Maps and click on the Northwest Quadrant. |