AOS Colloquium Series
Fall 2009-2010
The Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
sponsors a colloquium each Monday afternoon. Talks
are held at 3:30 pm in room 811 of the Atmospheric,
Oceanic, and Space Science Building at 1225 W. Dayton
Street. You are invited to join us before the colloquium
at 3:15 for coffee, tea, and cookies in room 853 Atmospheric,
Oceanic, and Space Sciences Building.
The following talks are currently scheduled for Spring
semester 2009-2010
If you want to refer to last semester's Colloquium
series, please click here.
If you want to sign up to meet the colloquium speakers,
please go to this web site:
www.aos.wisc.edu/wcal/UW-AOS/index.cgi
You may need to click on the arrow a couple of times to get to the correct
week.
September 14
Zhengyu Liu, CCR, UW-Madison
Topic: Towards the modeling of last deglacial climate evolution
September 21
Lance Bosart, State University of New York
Topic:An Overview of Predecessor Heavy Rain Events Associated
with Landfalling Tropical Cyclones
September 25
AOS Colloquium (Annual Robock Lecture)
NOTE SPECIAL TIME AND LOCATION
Laudon Auditorium, Weeks Hall
7:00PM
Alan Robock, Rutgers University, Environmental Sciences
Topic:Smoke and Mirrors: Is Geoengineering a Solution to
Global Warming?
September 28
Marek Rogal, UW-Madison, AOS
Topic:Dynamical Redistribution of Column Ozone in the Southern
Hemisphere
October 5
Ron Errico, University of Maryland, Goddard Earth Sciences amd Technology Center
Topic:The Design, Validation, and Applications
of Observing System Simulation Experiments
October 12
Tom Knutson, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Topic:Atlantic
Hurricanes and Climate Change
October 19
Anna Michalak, University of Michigan, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Topic: Bridging across Spatial and Temporal Scales in North American Carbon Dioxide Flux Estimation
October 26
Ed Eloranta, UW-Madison, AOS
Topic:Snowfall measurements using a combination of High
Spectral Resolution lidar and millimeter wavelength radar data
November 2
Special Colloquium
11:00AM
Jack Beven, National Hurricane Center
Topic:Recent Advances and Remaining Challenges in Hurricane Forecasting at the NHC
November 2
Rick Anthes, President of UCAR, Boulder, CO
Topic:COSMIC-Accurate and precise profiling of the
atmosphere from space using radio occultation
November 9
Geoff Vallis, Princeton University
Topic:Meridional Energy Transport in
the Atmosphere-Ocean System
November 16
Alex Guenther, NCAR, Boulder, CO
Topic:Topic:Biogenic VOC Emissions in a Changing
Earth System
November 18
Special Seminar - NOTE 2:30 PM start time
John Anderson, Pixar Animation
Topic:What We Have
Learned from Fluid Dynamics
November 23
Paul Markowski, Penn State University
Topic:What vortex lines might be telling us
about tornadogenesis
November 30
Susan Lozier, Duke University, Department of Earth and Oceanic Sciences
Topic:TBA
December 7
TBA
December 14
TBA
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