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.
You can subscribe to the seminar series via Google Calendars by clicking this button:
February 2009
February 5
SST Gradients, Boundary Layer Convergence and a Simple Model of Climatological Rainfall and Latent Heating Profiles over the Tropical Oceans
Dr. Larissa Back
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Contact: Sumant Nigam
February 12
Wind Power, Weather and Climate
Prof. Daniel Kirk-Davidoff
University of Maryland
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
February 19
Atmospheric Bromine: Sources, Distribution, and Photochemistry
Prof. Ross Salawitch
University of Maryland
Abstract
Contact: Ross Salawitch
February 26
***Reception: 3:00pm***
Climate, Oceans, Global Warming, and Infectious Disease:
The Cholera Paradigm
Prof. Rita Colwell
University of Maryland
Abstract
Contact: Ragu Murtugudde
February 27, Friday, 12:00pm-1:pm CSS Room 2324
Moving Forward Following the Launch Failure of OCO
Ross Salawitch and Ben Johnson
University of Maryland
Contact: Ross Salawitch
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March 2009
March 5
MERRA Overview, Global Water and Energy Budgets and a Brief Demonstration
Dr. Michael Bosilovich
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Abstract
Contact: Massimo Bollasina
March 12
What Caused the Late 16th Century Drought Across Western North America?
Prof. Michael N. Evans
University of Maryland
Abstract
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
March 19
Spring Break --- No Seminar
March 26
The Role of Tropospheric Ozone in Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate:
New Insights from Satellites, Modeling and Assimilation
Dr. Kevin Bowman
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Abstract
Contact: Kayo Ide
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April 2009
April 2
Inter- and intra-basin Freshwater Disparities and Global Ocean Thermohaline Circulation
Dr. Dan Seidov
NOAA Oceanic Climate Laboratory
Abstract
Contact: Senya Grodsky
April 9
Predictability of Severe Weather at the Mesoscales
Prof. Fuqing Zhang
Penn State University
Abstract
Contact: Kayo Ide
April 16
***Reception: 3:00pm***
Turbulent Fluid Dynamics at the Margins of Rotational and Stratified Control:
Submesoscale Fluid Dynamics in the Ocean
Prof. James C. McWilliams
University of California, Los Angeles
Abstract
Contact: Kayo Ide
***Special Day, Time, & Location***
April 22, Wednesday, 3:00pm-4:00pm
CSS 2324
On Initial Perturbations for Ensemble Prediction
Prof. Erland Källén
Stockholm University, Sweden
Abstract
Contact: Kayo Ide
April 23
The Pleistocene Glacial Controversary and the Discovery of Climate Warming
and Continental Dynamics
Prof. Paul Hoffman
Harvard University
Contact: Dan Kirk-Davidoff
April 30
Traveling Waves and Instabilities in the Martian Atmosphere
Dr. John Wilson
NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Abstract
Contact: Kayo Ide
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May 2009
May 7
The Threat to Polar Bears From Global Warming
Prof. Eric DeWeaver
University of Maryland
Abstract
Contact: Sumant Nigam
***Special Time & Location***
May 14, 11:00am-12:00pm
CSS 4301 (IPST Conference Room)
Data Assimilation Using Modulated Ensembles
Dr. Craig Bishop
Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey
Abstract
Contact: Dave Kuhl
***Regular Time & Location***
May 14
Data Assimilation and Ensemble
Forecasting at the Met Office: Current Status and Future Plan
Dr. Dale Barker
UK Met Office
Abstract
Contact: Takemasa Miyoshi
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