International Pacific Research Center

Title: Explaining the global distribution of peak-spectrum variability of sea surface height

Title: Dynamical seasonal and intraseasonal predictability and prediction: Status, understanding and challenges

Speaker: Minoru Kadota, Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science (CAOS), New York University

Speaker: Gerold Siedler, Leibniz-Institute for Marine Sciences, Kiel University, Germany

Title: Western boundary currents and the subtropical countercurrent in the southern Indian Ocean

Title: Effect of the Mesoscale SST Anomaly on the Synoptic Scale Disturbance in the Kuroshio Extension

Title: Interactions between the Indonesian Throughflow and circulations in the Indian and Pacific Oceans

Title: How do outer spiral rainbands affect tropical cyclone structure and intensity?

Speaker: Claude Frankignoul, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

Title: The role of salinity in the decadal variability of the North Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

Title: A new adaptive error covariance localization tool for 4-dimensional ensemble data assimilation

Speaker: Peter B. Rhines, Departments of Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington

Title: Exploring the subArctic seas from above and below: satellite altimetry and robotic Seagliders

Speaker: Hidenori Aiki, IPRC Visiting Scientist Frontier Research Center for Global Change (FRCGC) Japan

Title: Global model simulations of the impact of ocean-going ships on aerosols, clouds, and the radiation budget

Speaker: Eric Guilyardi Visiting Scholar LOCEAN/IPSL, University Paris VI France

Speaker: Hisayuki Kubota, Institute of Observational Research for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

Title: Impact of tropical cyclones on interannual rainfall variability over the western North Pacific

Title: Asymmetry of the Indian Ocean Dipole - Observational analysis and model diagnosis

Speaker: Nikolai Maximenko, International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii

Speaker: Hyodae Seo, International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii

Title: Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction in a High-Resolution Regional Coupled Model

Speaker: Audine Laurian, LOCEAN, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

Title: Surface generation of poleward-propagating spiciness anomalies in the North Atlantic Ocean"

Speaker: Soon-Il An, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

Title: How ENSO and its impact on climate may change with increasing greenhouse gases

Title: Science, Policy and the U.S. Congress: Current Issues involving NASA, NOAA and Climate Change

Speaker: William Kessler, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Washington

Title: The annual cycle of circulation in the southwest subtropical Pacific, diagnosed in an OGCM

Speaker: Zhengyu Liu, Center for Climatic Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title: Rethinking tropical SST response to global warming: El Nino-like vs. Enhanced Equatorial Response

Speaker: Justin Small, International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Title: Intraseasonal variability of rainfall in the eastern Tropical Pacific and Central America

Speaker: Alexandre Ganachaud, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement at NOAA-PMEL Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and the Ocean, Seattle, Washington

Title: Southwest Pacific Ocean and SPICE: Jets around Vanuatu and New Caledonia from an inverse box model and a high-resolution regional model

Speaker: Hans Huang, MMM Division, NCAR, on leave from the Danish Meteorological Institute

Title: 4-Dimensional Variational (4D-Var) data assimilation for the Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF) model

Speaker: Gary Geernaert Director, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico

Speaker: Norbert Schorghofer, Assistant Astronomer UH Institute for Astronomy

Speaker: Qinghua Ding, Graduate Student, Department of Meteorology, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Title: Intraseasonal teleconnection between extratropical wavetrain and Indian summer monsoon

Title: Urban water harvesting and rural watershed management through agrohortiforestry

Title: Internal Atmospheric Variability, Pacific Meridional Mode and ENSO”

Title: Numerical simulation of the diurnal variation of the Maui Vortex and island-scale airflow under summer trade-wind condition

Speaker: Seita Emori, Chief, Climate Risk Assessment Research Section, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan

Title: Dynamic and thermodynamic changes in mean and extreme precipitation under changed climate

Speaker: Bill Kuo, Head, Mesoscale Prediction Group, NCAR/MMM, and Director of COSMIC Program Office, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)

Speaker: Dudley Chelton, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University

Title: Global observations of westward energy propagation in the ocean: Rossby waves or nonlinear eddies

Speaker: Dudley Chelton, College of Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences, Oregon State University

Title: The impact of SST specification on surface winds in the ECMWF operational model, with evidence for SST influence on tropospheric winds

Title: Towards climate prediction: Gain in predictability due to increase in CO2 concentration
as diagnosed from an ensemble of AO-GCM integrations

Title: Large Eddy Simulation (LES) of the Ocean Mixed Layer and its Application

Speaker: Hans von Storch, Institute for Coastal Research and Meteorological Institute of the University of Hamburg

Title: Assessing present and future coastal risks - the CoastDat Project for the NE Atlantic and first results for the SE Asian region

Speaker: Jeff Yin, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado

Title: The Influence of Low-Frequency and Synoptic Variability on Extreme Wind Events

Speaker: Tetsuzo Yasunari, Professor, Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center, Nagoya University and Program Director of the Hydrological Cycle Research Program, FRCGC/JAMSTEC

Title: Propagating Diurnal Disturbances (PDD) over the Maritime Continent associated with the MJO.
Place: Kuykendall 101 (KUY 101)

Speaker: Kerry Emanuel, Professor of Meteorology Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Speaker: Michael McIntyre, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK

Special IPRC Seminar, co-sponsored with the Departments of Meteorology and Oceanography

Title: Dynamics and Impacts of a Weakened Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

Title: Southwest Indian Ocean - Additional Source for Regional and Global Climate Predictability

Title: The Effect of the Mediterranean Overflow on the General Circulation in the Atlantic

Speaker: Masahiro Watanabe, Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Japan

Monday, December 18, 2006

Speaker: Jerry Meehl, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado

Title: Effects of black carbon aerosols on the Indian monsoon

Place: Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg 723 (POST 723)

Time: 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.

ABSTRACT

Friday, December 8, 2006

Speaker: Motoki Nagura, Institute of Observational Research for Global Change, JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Japan

Title: Pausing Mechanism of Transition from La Nina to El Nino: A View from Observational Heat Balance in the Mixed Layer from 1999 to 2002

Place: Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg 723 (POST 723)

Time: 2:00 PM

Tuesday, December 5, 2006

Speaker: Tomoe Nasuno, Frontier Research Center for Global Change, Yokohama, Japan

Title: Development of the Nonhydrostatic Icosahedral Atmospheric Model (NICAM): Global 3.5-km mesh experiments

Place: Marine Science Building, Room 114 (MSB114)

Time: 3:00 PM

(Joint Seminar with Meteorology)

Friday, December 1, 2006

Speaker: Albert J. Gabric, Environmental Sciences, Griffith University, Nathan, Australia

Title: The influence of the 2002/03 Australian dust storm season on phytoplankton growth and CO2 draw-down in the Southern Ocean (135-150E)

Place:Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg 126 (POST 126)

Time: 2:00–3:00 pm

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Speaker: Hisayuki Kubota, Institute of Observational Research for Global Change, JAMSTEC, Japan

Title: Seasonal variations of precipitation properties associated with the monsoon observed over the Republic of Palau in the tropical western Pacific

Place: Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg 723 (POST 723)

Time: 1:30 - 2:30 PM

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Speaker: Joshua Xiouhua Fu, Associate Researcher, IPRC, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Title: Impacts of air-sea coupling on the monsoon intraseasonal oscillation: Model study and satellite observations

Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB100)

Time: 3:30 p.m.

(Joint Seminar with Meteorology)

Thursday, November 9, 2006

Speaker: Akihiko Shimpo, Japan Meteorological Agency Tokyo, Japan

Title: Comparison of climate sensitivity over land and ocean, and impact of cloud schemes on the climate sensitivity

Place: Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg 723 (POST 723)
Time: 12:00 noon

Wednesday, November 8, 2006

Speaker: Tsutomu Takahashi, Scientific Visitor, IPRC

Title: Electrical Sprites and Jets in the Atmosphere

Place:Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB100)

Time: 3:30 p.m.

The seminar will be followed by a documentary video and video art by Peter McLeish, Montreal, Canada.

(Joint Seminar with Meteorology)

Thursday, November 2, 2006

Speaker: Wolf Grossmann, Hamburg Institute of International Economics / Germany
GKSS Research Center Geesthacht/Germany
Adjunct Professor of Climate and Society, ICCS/SOEST, UH at Manoa

Title:Hyperbolic growth of human knowledge - implications for living, jobs, science, universities, and nations

Place: Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg 723

(POST 723)

Time: 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.

Joint Seminar with ICCS/IPRC

Friday, October 27, 2006

Speaker: Greg Holland, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Boulder, Colorado

Title: Changing characteristics of Atlantic hurricanes

Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB100)
Time: 3:30 p.m.

(Joint Seminar with Meteorology)

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Speaker: Ingo Richter, IPRC

Title: Controlling the strength of the South Atlantic anticylcone in austral winter- a GCM study

Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB100)
Time: 3:30 p.m.

(Joint Seminar with Meteorology)

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Speaker: Shang-Ping Xie, IPRC and Meteorology Department, University of Hawaii

Title: The Indian Ocean: An emerging active player in climate variability

Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB100)
Time: 3:30

(Joint Seminar with Meteorology)

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Speaker: Hiroaki Ueda, IPRC Visiting Scientist from University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

Title: Formation, Fluctuation and Projected Future Change of the Asian Monsoon

Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB100)
Time: 3:30 p.m.

(Joint Seminar with Meteorology)

Friday, September 8, 2006

Speaker: Satish R. Shetye, National Institute of Oceanography India

Title: Convection and SST gradients in the Bay of Bengal

Place: Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg. 601 (POST 601)

Time: 11:30 am - 12:00 pm

Wednesday, September 6, 2006

Speaker: Yuqing Wang, IPRC and Department of Meteorology, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Title: TRMM Observations and a Regional Model Study of Tropical Precipitation Diurnal Cycle

Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100, (MSB 100),

Time: 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.

(Joint Seminar with Meteorology)

Tuesday, September 5, 2006

Speaker: Satish R. Shetye, National Institute of Oceanography India

Title: Local and remote wind forcing of the West India Coastal Current: an empirical study

Place: Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg. 723 (POST 723)

Time: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Takeaki Sampe, IPRC

Importance of Midlatitude Oceanic Frontal Zones for the General Circulation of the Atmosphere

Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100), 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.

(Joint Seminar with Meteorology)

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Dongchull Jeon, Senior Research Scientist, Ocean Climate Environment Research Laboratory, Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute, Ansan, Korea

Hydrography and Bottom Current Measurements in the Bismarck Sea

Marine Science Building, Room 100, (MSB 100), 3:15 - 4:15 p.m.

Wednesday, August 9, 2006

Teruyuki Nakajima, Director, Center for Climate System Research, University of Tokyo, Japan

A study of the effects of air pollution on the earth's climate using climate modeling and satellite remote sensing

Marine Science Building, Room 114, (MSB 114), 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Friday, August 4, 2006

Ole Peters, Visiting Scientist, Santa Fe Institute & Assistant Research Scientist, UCLA

The Geometry of Rainfall

Marine Science Building, Room 100, (MSB 100), 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.

(Joint Seminar with Oceanography)

Thursday, August 3, 2006

Alan Robock, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

Climatic Response to High-Latitude Volcanic Eruptions

Marine Science Building, Room 114, (MSB 114), 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Tuesday, August 1, 2006

Alan Robock, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

Climatic Effects of Regional Nuclear Conflict

Marine Science Building, Room 114, (MSB 114), 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Monday, June 26, 2006

Mark Baldwin, Northwest Research Associates Bellevue, WA

The Stratosphere and Climate

Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg. 723 (POST 723), 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Tony Song, Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA

Representing Satellite-Observed Ocean-Bottom-Pressure and SSH in Non-Boussinesq Oceans

Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg. 723 (POST 723), 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Thursday, May 11, 2006

Akimasa Sumi, Center for Climate System Research, University of Tokyo Japan

A New Initiative for Sustainable Sciences at the University of Tokyo

Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg. 723 (POST 723), 2:30 - 3:30 p.m.

Friday, April 21, 2006

Michael Alexander, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO

Pacific Decadal Variability in a Physical-Ecosystem Ocean Model

Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg. 414 (POST 414), 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Thursday, April 20, 2006

Thomas Stocker, Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Bern, Switzerland

Latest Results from the EPICA Ice Cores: Greenhouse Gas Records and Bipolar Seesaw

Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100), 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.

(Joint Seminar with Oceanography)

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Saji Hameed, IPRC

Role of Air-Sea Interaction in the Madden-Julian Oscillation

Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100), 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

(Joint Seminar with Meteorology)

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Shoshiro Minobe, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Gulf Stream Influence on the Atmosphere

Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg. 414 (POST 414), 12:00 - 1:15 p.m.

Thursday, April 13, 2006

Chris Bretherton, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Improving AGCM simulations of boundary layer clouds and their feedbacks on climate sensitivity - A climate process team approach

Marine Science Building, Room 114 (MSB 114), 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Chris Bretherton, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

New Insights into Cumulus Parameterization from a Simulation of a Transition from Shallow to Deep Cumulus Convection
Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100), 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.

(Joint Seminar with Meteorology)

Tuesday, April 4, 2006

Stephan Kempe, Institute for Applied Geosciences, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

The Caldera Lakes of Niuafo'ou: Its stromatolites and what they tell us about the evolution of ocean chemistry

ABSTRACT

Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100), 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Simon de Szoeke, IPRC

The Effect of Shallow Convection in a Coupled Regional Ocean-Atmosphere Model

Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100), 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.

(Joint Seminar with Meteorology)

Wednesday, March 8, 2006

Jerry Meehl, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado

Weather and Climate Extremes in a Future Warmer Climate

Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100), 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.

(Joint Seminar with Meteorology)

Thursday, March 2, 2006

Christophe Messager, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique,
Laboratoire d'étude des Transferts en Hydrologie et Environnement, Grenoble, France

The effects of the interactions among climate components on the precipitation regime of the West African Monsoon

Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg. 723 (POST 723), 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Wednesday, March 1, 2006

Luke Skinner, Godwin Laboratory for Paleoclimate Research, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

The last glacial cycle: Pacemakers and feedbacks

Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100), 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.

(Joint Seminar with Meteorology)

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Jurgen Theiss, Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California, San Diego

New features of geostrophic turbulence: Can they be observed in the ocean?

Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg. 127 (POST 127), 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

I.-I. Lin, National Taiwan University

Supertyphoon Boosters in the Northwest Pacific Ocean

Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100), 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.

(Joint Seminar with Meteorology)

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

John Lyman, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory/JIMAR, Seattle, WA

Tropical Instability Waves in the Tropical Atmosphere Ocean Array

Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg. 723 (POST 723), 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.

(Joint Seminar with JIMAR)

Thursday, February 9, 2006

Friedrich Schott, IFM-GEOMAR Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften, Germany

Tropical Atlantic variability: Comparison of observations, models and assimilations

Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg. 723 (POST 723), 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Wednesday, February 8, 2006

Oliver Timm, International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa

The seasonal response patterns of the climate system to transient boundary conditions during the last deglaciation and the Holocene

Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100), 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.

(Joint Seminar with Meteorology)

Wednesday, February 1, 2006

George Boer, Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis

Can We Determine Climate Sensitivity From Volcanic Events?

Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100), 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.

(Joint Seminar with Meteorology)

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Ralph F. Milliff, Colorado Research Associates Division NorthWest Research Associates

Atmosphere and ocean signatures of the Madden-Julian Oscillation in an ensemble of surface winds from a Bayesian hierarchical model

Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100), 3:30 p.m.

(Joint Seminar with Meteorology)

Wednedsay, January 18, 2006

Kevin P. Hamilton, Department of Meteorology & IPRC University of Hawaii at Manoa

Adventures with the solar barometric tides

Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100), 3:30 p.m.

(Joint Seminar with Meteorology)

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Claude Frankignoul, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Dynamique et de Climatologie, Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris, France

Observed influence of North Pacific SST anomalies on the atmospheric circulation

Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg. 723 (POST 723), 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.