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Spring 2005
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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.

February

February 3
"The Total Ozone Record as a Diagnostic of Decadal Climate Change"
Prof. Bob Hudson

Department of Meteorology
University of Maryland
Contact: zeng@atmos.umd.edu

February 10
"Characterization and High Resolution Numerical Simulations  of Stratospheric Clear Air and Optical Turbulence "
Prof. Alex Mahalov

Arizona State University
Contact: ekalnay@atmos.umd.edu

February 17
"Paleoclimate: An Introdution"
Prof. Dan Kirk-Davidoff

Dept. of Meteorology
University of Maryland
Contact: zeng@atmos.umd.edu

February 24
" Prospects for Passive Precision Measurement of CO2 column from Space"
Dr. Bill Heaps

NASA/GSFC
Contact: dankd@atmos.umd.edu

March

March 3
"Forecasting Extremes in the Indian Ocean Sector Climate"
Dr. Roxana Wajsowicz

Dept. of Meteorology
University of Maryland
Contact: zeng@atmos.umd.edu

March 10
"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"
Dr. Peter Colarco

ESSIC
University of Maryland
Contact: zeng@atmos.umd.edu

March 17
"Representing Extreme Behavior in Climate Models"
Dr. Jim Kinter
COLA
Contact: zeng@atmos.umd.edu

March 24        Spring Break

March 31
"Evidence of Land-Atmosphere Feedback in the Observational Record"
Dr. Randal Koster
NASA/GSFC
Contact: zeng@atmos.umd.edu


April

April 7
"Predictability of Climate: Why Do Climate Model Sensitivities to Doubled CO2 Differ?"
Prof. Ed Schneider

George Mason University and COLA
Contact: roxana@atmos.umd.edu

April 14
"The Global Carbon Cycle: an Introduction"
Ning Zeng

Dept. of Meteorology
University of Maryland
Contact: Ning Zeng

April 21
"Constraining the Missing CO2 Sink"
Dr. Randy Kawa

NASA/GSFC
Contact: Ning Zeng

April 28
"Hyperspectral Infrared Remote Sensing Research and Development Activities at NESDIS"
Dr. Mitchell D. Goldberg

NOAA/NESDIS
Contact: ekalnay@atmos.umd.edu


May

May 5
Satellite Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Conditions Hazardous to Aviation
Dr. Gary Ellrod

NOAA/NESDIS
Contact: ekalnay@atmos.umd.edu

May 12
Use of AIRS/AMSU data for weather and climate studies
Dr. J. Susskind
NASA/GSFC
Contact: ekalnay@atmos.umd.edu

September

September 9 (Friday), 3 pm
Note Special Day and Time
"Tropical rainfall impacts under global warming"
Prof. David Neelin

Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles
Relevant Paper
Contact: Ning Zeng

September 15
"Prospects for Passive Precision Measurement of CO2 column from Space"
Dr. Bill Heaps

NASA/GSFC
Relevant Paper
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff

September 22
"A Global Convection Circulation Paradigm for the Annular Mode"
Prof. Ming Cai

Dept. of Meteorology
Florida State University
Relevant Paper 1
Relevant Paper 2
Contact: Eugenia Kalnay

September 29
'A parametric view of climate and low-frequency variability'
Prof. Sukyoung Lee

Dept. of Meteorology
Pennsylvania State University
Relevant Paper 1
Relevant Paper 2
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff

October

October 6
"Air Pollution: Science, Impacts and Policy"
Prof. Denise Mauzerall

Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton University
Relevant Paper 1
Relevant Paper 2
Contact: Russ Dickerson

October 13
"Atmospheric Aerosols: Formation, Aging, and Interaction with Cloud- Climate"
Prof. Renyi Zhang

Department of Atmospheric Sciences
Texas A&M
Relevant Paper 1
Relevant Paper 2
Contact: Zhanqing Li

October 20 2:30 pm in CSS 2324
"Partitioning of poleward heat transport between the atmosphere and ocean"
Prof. John Marshall

Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
M.I.T.
Relevant Paper
Contact: Roxana Wajsowicz

October 21 Friday, 3 pm
'Issues in Modeling the Aerosol Effects on Climate'
Dr. Chul Chung

Relevant Paper 1
Relevant Paper 2
Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Contact: Sumant Nigam

October 27
Global Changes of the Water Cycle Intensity
Michael Bosilovich

NASA/GSFC
Relevant Paper
Contact: Roxana Wajsowicz

October 31, Monday 11:30 am, Room 3425
"The Maximum Likelihood Ensemble Filter: Recent development and preliminary results"
Milija Zupanski

CIRA/Colorado State University
Contact: Eugenia Kalnay


November

November 3
What can biogeochemical tracers tell us about pathways of ocean ventilation?
Dr. Anand Gnanadesikan

NOAA/GFDL
Relevant Paper
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff

November 10
The West African Monsoon System: 20th Century Simulation and 21st Century Prediction
Prof. Kerry Cook

Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Cornell University
Relevant Paper
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff

November 17
Air-sea CO2 flux response to climate variability on seasonal, interannual and decadal timescales
Prof. Galen McKinley

Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff

November 24
Thanksgiving, no lecture

December

December 1
Location: Chemistry Building, Room 1407 Time: 7 pm Seminar, 8 pm Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate in the "Anthropocene"
Prof. Paul Crutzen

Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Contact: Russ Dickerson

December 8
The signature of global warming and Pacific pan-decadal variability in the observed and reanalyses fields
Dr. Jonathan Chen
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center
University of Maryland, College Park
Relevant Paper
Contact: Jonathan Chen

Postponed to Feb. 2
Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange Trend From Changing Sea-Surface Temperatures
Dr. Mark Olsen

NASA GSFC
Relevant Paper
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff

December 19
Special Time: 11 am, rm. 3425
Ensemble Data Assimilation with the NCEP GFS
Dr. Jeff Whitaker

NOAA
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff