Physical Sciences Laboratory Seminars 2024

The PSL Seminar Series is typically held at 2:00 p.m. Mountain Time on Tuesdays and features a mix of internal and external speakers. The goal of the series is to facilitate collaboration between PSL and external scientists. The series is co-sponsored by partners at CIRES.

Details including connection information can be found on the individual announcements. If you have any questions about the series, please contact the coordinators at: psl.seminars@noaa.gov. Get seminar announcements sent straight to your inbox by signing up below.

Please note: Seminars are not recorded.

All times Mountain Time (MT).


Date Seminar
19 Nov 2024
Tuesday, 2:00 pm
Jonathan Beverley, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory - CIRES CU Boulder
Rapid Development of Systematic Errors in Seasonal Forecasts
Room GC402 (Contact: psl.seminars@noaa.gov)
05 Nov 2024
Tuesday, 2:00 pm
Frances Davenport, Colorado State University
Quantifying climate change impacts and predictability to inform climate risk assessment and adaptation
Room 2A305 (Contact: psl.seminars@noaa.gov)
22 Oct 2024
Tuesday, 2:00 pm
Kelly Mahoney - Vitaly Kholodovsky - Alex Thompson, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory (All) - CIRES CU Boulder (Thompson)
Modernizing NOAA's extreme precipitation guidance for high-hazard infrastructure in a changing climate
Room 1D403 (Contact: psl.seminars@noaa.gov)
08 Oct 2024
Tuesday, 2:00 pm
Hamid Pahlavan, NorthWest Research Associates
Ensuring Stability in Data-driven Climate Modeling: Insights from a 1D Gravity Wave-QBO Testbed
Room GC402 (Contact: psl.seminars@noaa.gov)
26 Sep 2024
Thursday, 1:00 pm
Jun-Ichi Yano, French National Centre for Scientific Research | CNRS
How to Use the Wavelet in Atmospheric Science?
Room 1D403 (Contact: Christopher Cox)
24 Sep 2024
Tuesday, 2:00 pm
Benjamin Barr, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Seastate-Dependent Air-Sea Heat Fluxes with Sea Spray in High Winds: Physical Processes, Multiscale Interactions, and Future Possibilities for Observations and Modeling
Room GC402 (Contact: psl.seminars@noaa.gov)
10 Sep 2024
Tuesday, 2:00 pm
Michael Gallagher, CIRES - NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory
How Greenland melts: analysis and applications of high fidelity observations of the coupled climate system from an autonomous, renewable-powered, realtime research platform
Room GC402 (Contact: psl.seminars@noaa.gov)
27 Aug 2024
Tuesday, 2:00 pm
Rosimar Rios-Berrios, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
Subseasonal and Climate Variability of Tropical Cyclones in Global Convection-Permitting Simulations
Room 1D403 (Contact: psl.seminars@noaa.gov)
15 Aug 2024
Thursday, 3:00 pm
Alejandro Garcia, San José State University and Berkeley Lab
Issues in modeling fluctuating hydrodynamics
Room 2A305 (Contact: psl.seminars@noaa.gov)
13 Aug 2024
Tuesday, 2:00 pm
Angela Rowe, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Toward an improved understanding of ice-phase precipitation processes
Room GC402 (Contact: psl.seminars@noaa.gov)
12 Aug 2024
Monday, 1:00 pm
Fernando De Sales, San Diego State University
Quantifying Fire-Induced Surface Climate Changes in the Savanna and Rainforest Biomes of Brazil
Room GC402 (Contact: psl.seminars@noaa.gov)
04 Jun 2024
Tuesday, 2:00 pm
Courtney Schumacher, Texas A&M University
Global rain types and their extremes
Room GC402 (Contact: psl.seminars@noaa.gov)
21 May 2024
Tuesday, 2:00 pm
[Special *FLASH* Seminar]
Xuanyu Chen, CIRES CU Boulder - NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory
Mesoscale Sea Surface Temperature Warm Anomalies Excite Trade Cumulus Generation in North Atlantic Trades: Satellite Observations and Large Eddy Simulations

I-Kuan Hu, CIRES CU Boulder - NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory
Utilizing the Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign for Assessing Marine Shallow Cumulus Simulations in the Unified Forecast System: Insights from the Common Community Physics Package Single Column Model
Room GC402 (Contact: psl.seminars@noaa.gov)
07 May 2024
Tuesday, 2:00 pm
Peter Goble, Colorado State University
Understanding Water Supply Forecast Errors in Western Colorado
Room 2A305 (Contact: psl.seminars@noaa.gov)
23 Apr 2024
Tuesday, 2:00 pm
David Marsico, CIRES CU Boulder - NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory
Dynamical Filtering of Tropical Variability
Room 2A305 (Contact: psl.seminars@noaa.gov)
09 Apr 2024
Tuesday, 2:00 pm
Philip Brohan, UK Met Office
Climate Modeling and Data Assimilation with Generative Machine Learning
Webinar Only (Contact: psl.seminars@noaa.gov)
26 Mar 2024
Tuesday, 2:00 pm
Kinya Toride, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory - CIRES CU Boulder
Fancy model analog for interpretable ENS forecasting
Room GC402 (Contact: psl.seminars@noaa.gov)
12 Mar 2024
Tuesday, 2:00 pm
Momme Hell, NSF NCAR Advanced Studies Program
Bulk Fluxes in Earth System Models and Beyond: How converging scales may lead to diverging results
Room 2A305 (Contact: psl.seminars@noaa.gov)
28 Feb 2024
Wednesday, 11:00 am
Dan Kirshbaum, McGill University
On the mechanisms of deep convection initiation
Room 2A305 (Contact: psl.seminars@noaa.gov)
27 Feb 2024
Tuesday, 2:00 pm
George Kiladis, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory
Interplay between Stratospheric Kelvin Waves, Tropical Convection, and the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation
Room 2A305 (Contact: psl.seminars@noaa.gov)
13 Feb 2024
Tuesday, 2:00 pm
Wen-Chau Lee, National Center for Atmospheric Research Earth Observing Laboratory (NCAR)
Airborne Phased Array Radar (APAR): The Next Generation of Airborne Polarimetric Doppler Weather Radar
Room GC402 (Contact: psl.seminars@noaa.gov)
23 Jan 2024
Tuesday, 2:00 pm
Sergey Frolov, NOAA/PSL
Integration of emerging data-driven models into the NOAA research to operation pipeline for numerical weather prediction
Room GC402 (Contact: psl.seminars@noaa.gov)