Past PSL Climate Diagnostics Seminars: 2006
Note: All seminars were at the David Skaggs Research Center unless specifically noted otherwise. A list of current PSL seminars is also available.
| Date | Title | Speaker | Time/Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday 5 January 2006 |
Note: Special Thursday Seminar In defense of Milankovich |
Gerard Roe, University of Washington |
2 PM/1D 403 Refreshments at 1:50 |
| Wednesday 18 January 2006 |
Atmospheric Feedbacks Over the Pacific Cold-Tongue: Results From Models and Observations (abstract) | De-Zheng Sun, CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center and ESRL/PSL |
2 PM/1D 403 Refreshments at 1:50 |
| Wednesday 25 January 2006 |
Critical climate controls and information needs for environmental assessment and adaptive management in the Grand Canyon region (abstract) | Shaleen Jain, CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center and ESRL/PSL |
2 PM/1D 403 Refreshments at 1:50 |
| Thursday 26 January 2006 |
Note: Special Thursday lunchtime brown-bag seminar Solar influence on Indian monsoon and ENSO through stratospheric dynamical processes. |
Kunihiko Kodera Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan. |
12:15 pm Room 1D403 |
| Wednesday 1 March 2006 |
Climate, Weather, and Physical-Biological Coupling Research in a Great Lakes Context (abstract) | Brent Lofgren, NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory |
2 PM/1D 403 Refreshments at 1:50 |
Can polarisation help NEXRAD to provide better rainfall estimates? [Abstract]
Anthony Illingworth, University of Reading ()
Refreshments at 1:50 pm
Thursday, 27 July 2006, 2:00 pm DSRC Multipurpose Room (GC402)
The variability in the summer Arctic cloud-capped boundary layer [Abstract]
Michael Tjernstrom, CIRES Visiting Fellow
Refreshments at 1:50 pm
Wednesday 2 August 2006, 2:00 pm DSRC Multipurpose Room (GC402)
Sensitivity of the United States economy to weather variability [Abstract]
Jeffrey Lazo, NCAR
Refreshments at 1:50 pm
Thursday 24 August 2006, 2:00 pm PSL-South conference Room (1D403)
Climate information for rural watershed management through agroforestry and urban rainwater harvesting [Abstract]
Raghu Murtugudde, University of Maryland
Refreshments at 1:50 pm
Wednesday 6 September 2006, 2:00 pm PSL-South conference Room (1D403)
Are there distinct metastable atmospheric regimes despite nearly Gaussian statistics? [Abstract]
Christian Franzke, NCAR
Refreshments at 1:50 pm
Informal Seminar -- Feel free to bring your lunch!
Tuesday 26 September, 12:00 pm PSL-South conference Room (1D403)
Atmosphere-Ocean Interactions in the Indo-Pacific Region and the Tropospheric Biennial Oscillation [Abstract]
Tim Li, IPRC and Dept. of Meteorology, University of Hawaii
Wednesday 27 September, 2:00 pm PSL-South conference Room (1D403)
Seasonality of Intraseasonal Oscillations in the tropical atmosphere and ocean and Origin of Bi-weekly and Lower-frequency modes [Abstract]
Tim Li, IPRC and Dept. of Meteorology, University of Hawaii
Refreshments at 1:50 pm
Wednesday 4 October 2006, 2:00 pm PSL-South conference Room (1D403)
Understanding the Tropical Biases in GCMs: Double-ITCZ, ENSO, MJO and Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves [Abstract]
Jialin Lin, ESRL/PSL and CIRES, University of Colorado
Refreshments at 1:50 pm
Note Special Time: 3:00 pm
Wednesday 11 October 2006, 3:00 pm PSL-South conference Room (1D403)
Characterization of the comparative skill of conceptual and physically-based snow models for streamflow prediction [Abstract]
Kristie J. Franz, Dept. of Geol. and Atmos. Sciences, Iowa State University
Refreshments at 2:50 pm
Wednesday 18 October 2006, 2:00 pm DSRC Multipurpose Room (GC402)
Evaluating climate model simulations of clouds, radiation, and precipitation [Abstract]
Robert Pincus,ESRL/PSL and CIRES, University of Colorado
Refreshments at 1:50 pm
Note: Special Friday Seminar
Friday 27 October 2006, 2:00 pm PSL-South conference Room (1D403)
The assessment of present and future change of extreme daily precipitation as simulated by IPCC AR4 models
Cheng-Ta Chen, National Taiwan Normal University
Refreshments at 1:50 pm
Note: Special Monday Seminar
Monday 30 October 2006, 2:00 pm PSL-South conference Room (1D403)
Convection in the tropical northwest Pacific, atmosphere/ocean coupling and extratropical ENSO response
Ileana Blade, University of Barcelona
Refreshments at 1:50 pm
Wednesday 1 November 2006, 2:00 pm PSL-South conference Room (1D403)
Tropical Atlantic and Caribbean Climate Variations During The Past Eight Centuries [Abstract]
Hali Kilbourne, ESRL/PSL and NRC Postdoctoral Fellow
Refreshments at 1:50 pm
Wednesday 15 November 2006, 2:00 pm DSRC Multipurpose Room (GC 402)
Stochastic Linear Models of Nonlinear Geosystems [Abstract]
Cecile Penland, ESRL/PSL
Refreshments at 1:50 pm
Wednesday 29 November 2006, 2:00 pm David Skaggs Building- PSL South Conference Room (1D403)
Sponsored jointly with the Western Water Assessment
Shortwave Radiative and Snowmelt Forcing by Dust Deposition in Mountain Snow Cover [Abstract]
Tom Painter, National Snow and Ice Data Center
Refreshments at 1:50 pm
Monday 4 December 2006, 12:00 pm PSL-South conference Room (1D403)
Comparative Constraints on Climate Sensitivity using a Multi-Thousand Member Climate Model Ensemble
Ben Sanderson, University of Oxford