Karen L. Smith

Ocean and Climate Physics

• 01/14 Monika Barcikowska - HZG
  "Tropical cyclone activity for the western North Pacific during the last six decades, derived from a regional climate simulations and observations"
• 01/18 Kelly Lombardo - Stony Brook University
  "The impact of the Atlantic coastal environment on evolving quasi-linear convective systems"
• 01/25 Isla Simpson - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
  "Understanding climate model biases in Southern Hemisphere mid-latitude variability"
• 02/01 Alexis Berg - Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
  "Diagnosing land-atmosphere coupling and its impact on climate variability in GFDL's climate models"
• 02/15 Usama Anber - Columbia University/DEES
  "Response of atmospheric convection to vertical wind shear: cloud-resolving simulations with parameterized large-scale circulation"
• 02/22 Rebecca Walsh Dell - Scripps Institution of Oceanography
  "Boundary layer dynamics and deep ocean mixing in Mid-Atlantic Ridge canyons"
• 03/01 Dana Veron - University of Delaware
  "Characterizing low-level winds along Delaware’s coastline using observations and modeling"
• 03/08 Sarah Kapnick - Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
  "The snowfall shuffle: Changes in global snow under 2xCO2"
• 03/15 Arnold Gordon - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
  "The impact of the South China Sea ENSO signal on the Indonesian throughflow; its large scale consequences"
• 03/22 Jessica Vial - Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique
  "On the interpretation of inter-model spread in CMIP5 climate sensitivity estimates"
• 03/29 Bruce Anderson - Boston University
  "Pinging the tropical Pacific: Atmospheric blocking as a mechanism for charging equatorial Pacific heat content"
• 04/05 Tom Farrar - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
  "Sea-level variability in the tropical Pacific: From inertia-gravity waves to Rossby waves"
• 04/12 Dick Ou - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
  "Glacial Oscillation and Abrupt Climate Change: Unified Perspective from a Box Model"
• 04/19 C.V. Vethamony - National Institute of Oceanography India
  Cancelled
• 04/26 Neil Gordon - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  "Knowing what to expect: A study in feedback timescale of clouds and water vapor"
• 05/03 Simona Bordoni - California Institute of Technology
  "Revisiting the role of the Tibetan Plateau on the South and East Asian monsoons"
• 05/10 Brian Arbic - University of Michigan
  "Global modeling of internal tides within an eddy-resolving general circulation model"
• 05/17 Janet Sprintall - Scripps Institution of Oceanography
  "Observing climate variability in Drake Passage"
• 05/24 Robert Korty - Texas A&M University
  "Tropical cyclone genesis factors in paleoclimate simulations"
• 05/31 Clara Deser - National Center for Atmospheric Research
  Cancelled

• 09/07 Lukas Valin - UC Berkley
  "Inferring variations in the oxidation capacity of the atmosphere using satellite-based observations of NO2"
• 09/14 Hiram Levy - NOAA GFDL
  "Air Pollution Control vs. Climate Change: from IPCC/AR4 to IPCC/AR5"
• 09/21 Robert Pinkus - CIRES, University of Colorado
  "What we do and don't understand about satellite observations of clouds and what this means for comparisons with climate models"
• 09/24 Chiara Lepore - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  "Precipitation Extremes: An overview of methods for the analysis of precipitation extremes"
• 09/28 Lee Murray - Harvard University
  "Variability in the oxidative capacity of the troposphere on interannual to interglacial time scales"
• 10/03 Mickael Chekroun, University of California, Los Angeles
  "On the role of Ruelle-Pollicott resonances in parameter dependence of long-term statistics"
• 10/12 James Edson - University of Connecticut
  "Air-sea interaction and the Boudary Layer Response during the DYNAMO Program"
• 10/19 Jacob Schewe - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
  "More frequent future monsoon failure due to inherent instability"
• 10/26 Judith Perlwitz - CIRES, University of Colorado
  "Anatomy of an extreme event"
• 11/09 Michael Dinniman - Old Dominion University
  "Sensitivity of intrusions of Circumpolar Deep Water onto Antarctic continental shelves to changes in the atmosphere"
• 11/16 Chaim Garfinkel - Johns Hopkins
  "The effect of tropospheric jet latitude on coupling between the stratospheric polar vortex and the troposphere"
• 11/30 Efrat Morin - Hebrew Univeristy of Jerusalem
  "Space-time patterns of convective rain cells and flash flood response in the eastern Mediterranean"
• 12/12 Judah Cohen - AER
  TBA

• 07/09 De-Sheng Sun - CIRES, University of Colorado
  "The Effect of ENSO Events on the Tropical Pacific Mean Climate: Insights from an Analytical"
• 07/20 Wenhong Li - Duke University (Marie Tharpe Fellow)
  "Summer Rainfall Variability over the Southeast US"
• 07/25 Chun-Chieh Wu - National Taiwan University
  "A New Paradigm for Concentric Eyewall Formation in Tropical Cyclones"
• 08/22 Anne-Sophie Daloz - University of Wisconsin
  "Impact of ocean-atmosphere coupling on tropical cyclone activity in the variable-resolution GCM ARPEGE"