ESRL Physical Sciences Laboratory Seminars 2018
The PSL Seminar Series is typically held at 2:00 p.m. Mountain Time on Tuesdays and features a mix of internal and external speakers. The goal of the series is to facilitate collaboration between PSL and external scientists. The series is co-sponsored by partners at CIRES.
Details including connection information can be found on the individual announcements. If you have any questions about the series, please contact the coordinators at: psl.seminars@noaa.gov. Get seminar announcements sent straight to your inbox by signing up below.
Please note: Seminars are not recorded.
All times Mountain Time (MT).
| Date | Seminar |
|---|---|
| 07 Dec 2018 Friday, 11:00 am | Annareli Morales, Ph.D. Candidate from University of Michigan and Extended Stay Visitor at MMM-NCAR Orographic Precipitation from Atmospheric Rivers: Exploring the response to microphysics and environmental parameter perturbations Room 1D403 (Contact: Robbie Desen) |
| 06 Dec 2018 Thursday, 2:30 pm | Matt Newman, University of Colorado/CIRES and NOAA/ESRL/PSL Potential reemergence of seasonal soil moisture anomalies in North America Room 1D403 (Contact: Madeline Sturgill) |
| 30 Nov 2018 Friday, 1:00 pm | C Radhakrishnan, Colorado State University CASA Radar Prediction System over Dallas Fort Worth Urban Network: Blending of Radar Nowcasting and High-Resolution Numerical Weather Prediction Model Room 1D403 (Contact: Robbie Desen) |
| 31 Oct 2018 Wednesday, 2:00 pm | Melissa Breeden, Postdoctoral Research Associate Cooperative Institute for Meteorological and Satellite Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison North Pacific Jet Retractions: Dynamical Mechanisms and Contributions from Midlatitude and Tropical Forcing Room 1D-403 (Contact: Maddie Sturgill) |
| 15 Oct 2018 Monday, 4:00 pm | Professor James Carton, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland The SODA3 Ocean Reanalysis -- A Status Report Room 1D403 (Contact: Madeline Sturgill) |
| 05 Oct 2018 Friday, 11:00 am | Julie Bessac, Argonne National Laboratory Stochastic simulation of predictive space-time scenarios of wind speed using observations and physical model outputs Room 1D403 (Contact: Madeline Sturgill) |
| 02 Oct 2018 Tuesday, 2:00 pm | Clara Draper, CIRES and ESRL Physical Sciences Laboratory Coupled Land/Atmosphere Data Assimilation Room 1D403 (Contact: Robbie Desen) |
| 26 Sep 2018 Wednesday, 2:00 pm | Jun-Ichi Yano, CNRM and Meteo-France, Toulouse, France Tropical Atmospheric Madden-Julian Oscillation: Strongly-Nonlinear Free Solitary Rossby Wave? Room 2A305 (Contact: Robbie Desen) |
| 25 Sep 2018 Tuesday, 2:00 pm | Xuguang Wang, School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma Research, Development, Challenges of Ensemble-Variational (EnVar) Hybrid Data Assimilation for Global, Hurricane and Convective-scale Severe Weather Prediction Room 2A305 (Contact: Robbie Desen) |
| 22 Aug 2018 Wednesday, 2:00 pm | Marty Hoerling, NOAA/ESRL Physical Sciences Laboratory Colorado River Response to Climate Change since the Late 19th Century Room 1D403 (Contact: Madeline Sturgill) |
| 17 Jul 2018 Tuesday, 10:00 am | Greg Herman, Colorado State University Flash Flood Verification Problems: Pondering Precipitation Proxies Room 1D403 (Contact: Robbie Desen) |
| 27 Jun 2018 Wednesday, 2:00 pm | Steve Penny, University of Maryland What good is Coupled Data Assimilation? Room 1D403 (Contact: Tom Statz) |
| 21 Jun 2018 Thursday, 11:00 am | Kazuaki Yasunaga, Earth Science Division University of Toyama, Japan Space-Time Spectral Analysis of the Moist Static Energy Budget Equation Room 1D403 (Contact: Shannon Kelly) |
| 30 May 2018 Wednesday, 2:00 pm | Nathan Paldor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Trapped Waves: Theory, Simulations and Observations Room 1D403 (Contact: Madeline Sturgill) |
| 29 May 2018 Tuesday, 2:00 pm | Allen White (PSL), Michael Leon (GSD), Haonan Chen, AQPI: Improved Monitoring and Forecasts of Precipitation, Streamflow, and Coastal Flooding in the San Francisco Bay Area Room 2A305 (Contact: Rich Lataitis) |
| 23 May 2018 Wednesday, 2:00 pm | Reto Stauffer, Department of Statistics, University of Innsbruck, Austria Somewhere Over the Rainbow: How to Make Effective Use of Colors in Scientific Visualizations Room 1D708 (Contact: Shannon Kelly) |
| 21 May 2018 Monday, 2:00 pm | Reto Stauffer, Department of Statistics, University of Innsbruck, Austria Standardized Anomaly Model Output Statistics Over Complex Terrain Room 2A305 (Contact: Shannon Kelly) |
| 01 May 2018 Tuesday, 2:00 pm [Special *FLASH* Seminar] | Jessie Creamean, Understanding the sources of Arctic biological ice nucleating particles Allen White, Winter storm conditions leading to excessive runoff above Oroville Dam during January and February 2017 Room 2A305 (Contact: Rich Lataitis) |
| 26 Apr 2018 Thursday, 11:00 am | Michael Maier-Gerber, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany Predictability of Tropical Cyclone Activity in the North Atlantic Ocean Room 1D403 (Contact: Shannon Kelly) |
| 26 Apr 2018 Thursday, 11:00 am | Andreas Schlüter, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany Modulation of Precipitation over West Africa by Equatorial Waves Room 1D403 (Contact: Shannon Kelly) |
| 23 Apr 2018 Monday, 2:00 pm | Rebecca Hill, CSU Department of Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics Methodologies for Calculating Economic Impacts – Examples and Potential Applications to NOAA Research Room 2A305 (Contact: Madeline Sturgill) |
| 18 Apr 2018 Wednesday, 2:00 pm | Manfred Wendisch, University of Leipzig, Leipzig Institute for Meteorology, Germany ARCTIC AMPLIFICATION: The Role of Mixed-Phase Clouds Room 1D403 (Contact: Robbie Desen) |
| 17 Apr 2018 Tuesday, 2:00 pm [Special *FLASH* Seminar] | Lantao Sun, Evolution of the global coupled climate response to Arctic sea ice loss during 1990-2090 and its contribution to climate change Linyin Cheng , How climate change is intensifying U.S. heat waves during droughts in CESM1 Room 2A305 (Contact: Rich Lataitis) |
| 03 Apr 2018 Tuesday, 2:00 pm [Special *FLASH* Seminar] | Irina Djalalova, Bias-correction of EPA Community Multi-scale Air Quality (CMAQ) Model for PM 2.5 and Ozone Maria Gehne, Introducing Land Surface Perturbations in the Global Ensemble Forecast System Room 2A305 (Contact: Rich Lataitis) |
| 30 Mar 2018 Friday, 11:00 am | David K. Adams, Center for Atmospheric Science National University of Mexico Precipitable Water Vapor: The Critical Variable in Tropical Deep Convection Room 1D708 (Contact: Shannon Kelly) |
| 20 Mar 2018 Tuesday, 2:00 pm [Special *FLASH* Seminar] | Jeffrey Whitaker, The new FV3GFS with 'replay' capability. Haonan Chen, Improving satellite-based rainfall retrievals by incorporating high-resolution ground radar network observations. Room 1D403 (Contact: Rich Lataitis) |
| 06 Mar 2018 Tuesday, 2:00 pm [Special *FLASH* Seminar] | Benjamin Moore, Large-scale dynamics of extreme precipitation events in California during winter 2016-2017 Cecile Penland, The skewed nature of ensemble forecasts Room 2A305 (Contact: Rich Lataitis) |
| 20 Feb 2018 Tuesday, 2:00 pm [Special *FLASH* Seminar] | Max Maahn, Anthropogenic pollution and cloud properties at the North Slope of Alaska Don Murray, FACTS: A on-line resource for analyzing and visualizing climate model output Room 2A-305 (Contact: Rich Lataitis) |
| 18 Jan 2018 Thursday, 2:00 pm | Tom Matthews, School of Natural Sciences and Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, UK Super Storm Desmond: A process-based assessment Room 1D403 (Contact: Robbie Desen) |
| 16 Jan 2018 Tuesday, 2:00 pm | Kathy Pegion, Dept of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Earth Sciences and Center for Ocean Land Atmosphere Studies, George Mason University The Subseasonal Experiment (SubX) Room 2A305 (Contact: Madeline Sturgill) |