ESRL Physical Sciences Laboratory Seminars 2016
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 |
|---|---|
| 30 Nov 2016 Wednesday, 2:00 pm | Patrick Laloyaux, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Earth system climate reanalyses at ECMWF Room 1D403 (Contact: Madeline Sturgill) |
| 09 Nov 2016 Wednesday, 3:30 pm | Reto Knutti,, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland The value and purpose of the next generation climate models: Joint with CSD Room 2A305 (Contact: Madeline Sturgill) |
| 03 Nov 2016 Thursday, 2:00 pm | Clara Draper, NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office / GESTAR University Space Research Association, Greenbelt, MD. Land data assimilation, and the use of land surface observations in NASA GMAO's reanalysis program Room 2A-305 (Contact: Madeline Sturgill) |
| 02 Nov 2016 Wednesday, 11:00 am | Francesca Viterbo, CIMA Foundation, Savona, Italy; Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, National Research Council, Turin, Italy; University of Genova, Genova, Italy High-resolution hydro-meteorological modeling of extreme weather events over complex orography areas: applications of WRF and WRF-Hydro model configurations Room 2A305 (Contact: Madeline Sturgill) |
| 28 Oct 2016 Friday, 11:00 am | Evan Kalina, NRC Research Associate, NOAA AOML Hurricane Research Division Severe convective weather: Microphysical insights from models and dual-polarization radar Go To Meeting: Web: https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/494645181 Phone: https://global.gotomeeting.com/494645181/numbersdisplay.html Access Code: 494-645-181 Room 2A305 (Contact: Madeline Sturgill) |
| 24 Oct 2016 Monday, 11:00 am | Maria Frediani, School of Engineering - University of Connecticut Forecast Post-Processing with Object-Based Analogs: A Technique to Reduce Spatial Dimensionality and Preserve Local Covariance Room 2A305 (Contact: Madeline Sturgill) |
| 14 Oct 2016 Friday, 11:00 am | Janice Bytheway, Colorado State University An Assessment of Warm Season Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts from the High Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) Model Room 2A305 (Contact: Madeline Sturgill) |
| 13 Oct 2016 Thursday, 11:00 am | Sam Lillo, School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK Impacts of anomalous mid-latitude wave activity during a strong El Niño Room 1D403 (Contact: Madeline Sturgill) |
| 01 Sep 2016 Thursday, 11:00 am | Brian Mapes, Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami Learning about processes and predictability from pseudo-assimilation in global models Room 2A305 (Contact: Madeline Sturgill) |
| 02 Aug 2016 Tuesday, 2:00 pm [Special *FLASH* Seminar] | Laura Slivinski, PSL Dynamics and Multiscale Interactions Team Biases in the 20th Century Reanalysis Version 2c and a Comparison to Version 3 Jian-Wen Bao, PSL Forecast and Modeling Development Team Crossing the “Unknown Land” in the Parameterization of Subgrid Turbulent Mixing Room 2A305 (Contact: Madeline Sturgill) |
| 27 Jul 2016 Wednesday, 2:00 pm | Adam Sobel, Professor, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia University Understanding deep convection by parameterizing large-scale dynamics Room 1D403 (Contact: Madeline Sturgill) |
| 20 Jul 2016 Wednesday, 11:00 am | Yukiko Imada, Researcher, Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan South Pacific influence on the termination of El Niño in 2014 Room 1D403 (Contact: Madeline Sturgill) |
| 19 Jul 2016 Tuesday, 2:00 pm [Special *FLASH* Seminar] | Andrey Grachev, PSL POP Team Annual and latitudinal variations of surface fluxes and surface meteorology at Arctic terrestrial sites Matthew Shupe, PSL POP Team Multi-disciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) - Building a process-level understanding of the evolving Arctic Room 2A305 (Contact: Rich Lataitis) |
| 13 Jul 2016 Wednesday, 2:00 pm | Isla Simpson, NCAR The mid-latitude circulation response to global warming: mechanisms and model diversity Room 1D403 (Contact: Madeline Sturgill) |
| 21 Jun 2016 Tuesday, 2:00 pm [Special *FLASH* Seminar] | Gary Wick, Estimation and Evaluation of Near-Real Time Diurnal Warming Products for Use with Sea Surface Temperature Analyses Sergey Matrosov, Radar-based Rain Rate Estimators and their Variability due to Rainfall Type: An Assessment using Hydrometeorology Testbed Data from Southeastern United States Room 2A-305 (Contact: Rich Lataitis) |
| 15 Jun 2016 Wednesday, 3:00 pm | Heike Kalesse, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), Germany From cirrus studies based on cloud radar moments to mixed-phase cloud studies based on cloud radar Doppler spectra as well as synergistic cloud radar-lidar observations Room 1D403 (Contact: Madeline Sturgill) |
| 07 Jun 2016 Tuesday, 2:00 pm [Special *FLASH* Seminar] | Stefan Tulich, AOP Convectively Coupled Gravity Waves in Global Models vs Observations Martin Hoerling, APA CA Drought Recovery: Integrating Attribution & Prediction Science Room 2A-305 (Contact: Rich Lataitis) |
| 17 May 2016 Tuesday, 2:00 pm [Special *FLASH* Seminar] | Naoko Sakaeda, PSL Atmosphere-Ocean Processes Team The Variability of the Tropical Diurnal Cycle Associated with the Madden-Julian Oscillation Antonietta Capotondi, PSL Dynamics and Multiscale Interactions Team Optimal Precursors of ENSO Diversity Room 2A-305 (Contact: Rich Lataitis) |
| 19 Apr 2016 Tuesday, 2:00 pm [Special *FLASH* Seminar] | Kelly Mahoney, PSL Hydrometeorology Modeling and Applications Team Examining terrain elevation assumptions used in current extreme precipitation estimation practices: A modeling study of the 2013 Colorado Front Range floods Tom Hamill, PSL Forecast and Modeling Development Team How bad can a one-hour forecast be? Room 2A305 (Contact: Rich Lataitis) |
| 05 Apr 2016 Tuesday, 2:00 pm [Special *FLASH* Seminar] | Jim Wilczak, The Second Wind Forecast Improvement Project: Overview and Connection to the PSL Columbia Gorge Integrated Project Ola Persson, Surface Energy Fluxes During Arctic Freeze-Up Room 2A-305 (Contact: Rich) |
| 15 Mar 2016 Tuesday, 2:00 pm [Special *FLASH* Seminar] | Ji-Eun Kim , Wave influence on tropical high cirrus clouds as observed by the Global Hawk Lantao Sun, What caused the recent "Warm Arctic, Cold Continents" trend pattern in winter temperatures? Room 2A-305 (Contact: Rich) |
| 25 Feb 2016 Thursday, 10:30 am | Kelly Ryan, University of Miami OSSE Evaluation of Aircraft Reconnaissance Flight Patterns and their impact on Hurricane Forecasts Room 2A305 (Contact: Babs) |
| 17 Feb 2016 Wednesday, 3:00 pm | Brian Henn, University of Washington Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Using Indirect Observations to Infer Patterns of Precipitation in the Sierra Nevada Room 1D-403 (Contact: Babs) |
| 11 Feb 2016 Thursday, 2:00 pm | Lance F. Bosart, The University at Albany/SUNY Predictability Challenges Associated with Significant North American Weather Events during Winter 2014–2015 Room 1D-403 (Contact: Maddie) |
| 08 Feb 2016 Monday, 2:00 pm | Jonghun Kam, Cooperative Institute for Climate Science, Princeton, NJ, 08540 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/NOAA, Princeton, NJ, 08540 Attribution Assessment for Recent Climate Extremes: Record Annual Mean Warmth during 2014 and the 2011-14 California Drought Room 1D-403 (Contact: babs) |