Physical Sciences Laboratory Seminars 2022

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
06 Dec 2022
Tuesday, 2:00 pm
Cathy Smith and Chia-Wei Hsu, CIRES and NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory
PSL Ocean Visualization and Analysis Portals
Webinar Only (Contact: psl.seminars@noaa.gov)
22 Nov 2022
Tuesday, 2:00 pm
Anne Sledd, CIRES and NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory
Snow thermal conductivity and conductive flux variability during the MOSAiC winter
Webinar Only (Contact: psl.seminars@noaa.gov)
08 Nov 2022
Tuesday, 2:00 pm
Andrew Winters, Assistant Professor, Dept. Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, CU Boulder
Subseasonal prediction of the state and evolution of the North Pacific jet stream
Webinar Only (Contact: psl.seminars@noaa.gov)
01 Nov 2022
Tuesday, 2:00 pm
Donald Lippi, University of Maryland College Park and Lynker – NOAA EMC
Improvements in the Assimilation of Doppler Radial Winds at NCEP in Regional and Global Forecast Systems
Webinar Only (Contact: psl.seminars@noaa.gov)
25 Oct 2022
Tuesday, 2:00 pm
Kelly Núñez Ocasio, ASP Postdoctoral Fellow at NCAR MMM
The Role of Water Vapor in African Easterly Wave Evolution and Tropical Cyclogenesis
Webinar Only (Contact: psl.seminars@noaa.gov)
11 Oct 2022
Tuesday, 2:00 pm
William Sweet, NOAA National Ocean Service
Sea level rise and high tide flooding along U.S. coastlines
Webinar Only (Contact: psl.seminars@noaa.gov)
27 Sep 2022
Tuesday, 2:00 pm
Marty Hoerling, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory
Why has the Summertime Central U.S Warming Hole not Disappeared
Webinar Only (Contact: psl.seminars@noaa.gov)
13 Sep 2022
Tuesday, 2:00 pm
Chen Xing, UC Santa Barbara
Aerosol emissions influence the evolution of North Pacific gyre circulation
(Contact: psl.seminars@noaa.gov)
12 Apr 2022
Tuesday, 2:00 pm
[Special *FLASH* Seminar]
Yuan-Ming Cheng,
Two extratropical pathways to forcing tropical convective disturbances

Pragallva Barpanda,
Role of Subtropical Rossby Waves in Amplifying the Kelvin-Mode Circulation Component of the Madden-Julian Oscillation
(Contact: psl.seminars@noaa.gov)