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Seminars

2006

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.