Seminars
Friday, December 7, 2007
Speaker: Craig Bishop, Naval Research
Laboratory, Monterey, California
Title: A new adaptive error covariance localization tool for
4-dimensional ensemble data assimilation
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 2:00 PM
Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
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
Place: Institute of Geophysics (HIG) 110
Time: 3:00 – 4:00 pm
Joint IPRC/OCN/MET Seminar
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Speaker: Lonnie Thompson, Ohio State University
Title: Abrupt Climate Change:
Past, Present, and Future
Place: Hawaii Institute of
Geophysics (HIG) 110
Time: 4:45 PM
Special IPRC Seminar (flyer)
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Speaker: Hidenori Aiki, IPRC Visiting
Scientist Frontier Research Center for Global Change (FRCGC) Japan
Title: The Red Sea outflow regulated by the Indian monsoon
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:30 PM
Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Speaker: Ian Eisenman, Ph.D. Student at Harvard
University
Title: Rain driven by ice sheets as a cause of past abrupt
climate change
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:00 PM
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Speaker: Axel Lauer,
International Pacific Research Center
Title: Global model simulations of the impact of ocean-going
ships on aerosols, clouds, and the radiation budget
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:30 PM
Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Speaker: Eric Guilyardi Visiting
Scholar LOCEAN/IPSL, University Paris VI France
Title: Understanding El Nino in Ocean-Atmosphere General
Circulation Models
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
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
Place: Marine Science Building (MSB) 100
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Speaker: Tim Li, IPRC and Department
of Meteorology
Title: Asymmetry of the Indian Ocean Dipole - Observational
analysis and model diagnosis
Place: Marine Science Building (MSB) 100
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Speaker: Kazuyoshi Souma,
International Pacific Research Center
Title: The effect of land surface state on heat thunderstorms in
Japan
Place: Marine Science Building (MSB) 100
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar
ABSTRACT
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Speaker: Nikolai Maximenko,
International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii
Title: Improved Mean Ocean Surface Circulation: What's New
Place: Marine Science Building (MSB) 100
Time: 3:00 – 4:00 pm
Joint IPRC-Oceanography Seminar
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Speaker: Hyodae Seo, International
Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii
Title: Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction in a High-Resolution Regional
Coupled Model
Place: Marine Science Building (MSB) 100
Time: 3:00 – 4:00 pm
Joint IPRC-Oceanography Seminar
Monday, July 30, 2007
Speaker: Audine Laurian, LOCEAN,
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
Title: Surface generation of poleward-propagating spiciness
anomalies in the North Atlantic Ocean"
Place: Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg., Room 723 (POST
723)
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 pm
ABSTRACT
Thursday, June 28, 2007
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
Place: Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg., Room 723
(POST 723)
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 pm
ABSTRACT
Monday, May 21, 2007
Speaker: Johannes Loschnigg
Title: Science, Policy and the U.S. Congress: Current Issues
involving NASA, NOAA and Climate Change
Place:c
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 pm
ABSTRACT
Monday, May 14, 2007
Speaker: William Kessler,
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Washington
Title: The annual cycle of circulation in the
southwest subtropical Pacific, diagnosed in an OGCM
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 11 am – 12:00 pm
ABSTRACT
Friday, May 4, 2007
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
Place: Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg., Room 723 (POST
723)
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
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
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:30 pm
Joint IPRC - Department of Meteorology Seminar
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
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
Place: Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg., Room 723 (POST
723)
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 pm
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
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
Place: Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg., Room 723 (POST
723)
Time: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
ABSTRACT
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Speaker: Gary Geernaert Director,
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Los Alamos National
Laboratory, New Mexico
Title: Advances in similarity turbulence theory for air-sea
fluxes
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:30 PM
Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Speaker: Norbert Schorghofer,
Assistant Astronomer UH Institute for Astronomy
Title: The ice ages of Mars
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:30 PM
Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Speaker: Qinghua Ding, Graduate
Student, Department of Meteorology, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Title: Intraseasonal teleconnection between extratropical
wavetrain and Indian summer monsoon
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB100)
Time: 3:30 PM
Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Speaker: Raghu Murtugudde,
ESSIC/DAOS, University of Maryland
Title: Urban water harvesting and rural watershed management
through agrohortiforestry
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB100)
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
ABSTRACT
Monday, March 5, 2007
Speaker: Ping Chang, Department of
Oceanography, Texas A&M University
Title: Internal Atmospheric Variability, Pacific Meridional Mode
and ENSO”
Place: Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg., Room 723 (POST
723)
Time: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
ABSTRACT
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Speaker: DaNa L. Carlis, Howard
University, Washington, DC
Title: Numerical simulation of the diurnal variation of the Maui
Vortex and island-scale airflow under summer trade-wind condition
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB100)
Time: 3:30-4:30 pm
Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar
Thursday, February 22, 2007
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
Place: Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg, Room 414
(POST 414)
Time: 10:30 - 11:30 am
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Speaker: Bill Kuo, Head, Mesoscale
Prediction Group, NCAR/MMM, and Director of COSMIC Program Office,
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
Title: Early Results from the COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 Mission
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 114 (MSB 114)
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar
Thursday February 15, 2007
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
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB100)
Time: 3:00 – 4:00 pm
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
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
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB100)
Time: 3:30 – 4:30 pm
ABSTRACT
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Speaker: Jin-Song von Storch, Max
Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg
Title: Towards climate prediction: Gain in predictability due to
increase in CO2 concentration
as diagnosed from an ensemble of AO-GCM integrations
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar
Friday, February 2, 2007
Speaker: In-Sik Kang, Seoul National
University, Seoul, Korea
Title: High-resolution climate modeling
Place: Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg. 127 (POST 127)
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Thursday, February 1, 2007
Speaker: Yign Noh, Yonsei University
Seoul, Korea
Title: Large Eddy Simulation (LES) of the Ocean Mixed Layer and
its Application
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Joint IPRC-Oceanography Seminar
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
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
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar
Monday, January 29, 2007
Speaker: Jeff Yin, National Center for
Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
Title: The Influence of Low-Frequency and Synoptic Variability on
Extreme Wind Events
Place: Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg
(POST 723)
Time: 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Friday, January 26, 2007
Speaker: Jim O’Brien, Florida
State University
Title: A Modern History of Equatorial Oceanography
Place: Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg. 127 (POST 127)
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Speaker: Tangdong Qu, International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Title: South China Sea Throughflow
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Joint IPRC-Oceanography Seminar
Thursday, January 25, 2007
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)
Time: 3:00-4:00 p.m.
Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Speaker: Kerry Emanuel, Professor of
Meteorology Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: The Hurricane Embryo
Place: Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Building, Room 723
(POST 723)
Time: 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar
Monday, January 22, 2007
Speaker: Michael McIntyre, Department
of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge,
UK
Title: Multiple Jets, Beta turbulence and the Phillips Effect
Place: Hawaii Institute of Geophysics 110 HIG 110
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Special IPRC Seminar, co-sponsored with the Departments of
Meteorology and Oceanography
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Speaker: Axel Timmermann, IPRC
Title: Dynamics and Impacts of a Weakened Atlantic Meridional
Overturning Circulation
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Joint IPRC-Oceanography Seminar
Abstract
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Speaker: H. Annamalai, IPRC
Title: Southwest Indian Ocean - Additional Source for Regional
and Global Climate Predictability
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB100)
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Speaker: Shinichiro Kida, IPRC
Title: The Effect of the Mediterranean Overflow on the General
Circulation in the Atlantic
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Friday, January 12, 2007
Speaker: Masahiro Watanabe,
Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Japan
Title: Inter-basin Coupling and a Birth of the Equatorial Warm
Pool
Place: Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg 414 (POST 414)
Time: 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.