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Meteorology and Oceanography Seminars

Fri. 05/09/08, 1pm, M345: Orographically generated nonlinear waves and shocks in rotating and nonrotating layered flow
E.R. Johnson, J.G. Esler and O.J. Rump
Department of Mathematics, UCL.

Fri. 08/08/08, 1pm, M345: Global Warming and Tropical Cyclone Activity in the Western North Pacific
Professor Johnny Chan
City University of Hong Kong

Fri. 14/12/2007, 1pm, M345: The Southern Hemisphere Annular Mode and its Impact on the Climate System
David Thompson
Colorado State University

Fri. 26/10/2007, 1pm, M345: 4D-Var for Dummies
Jeff Kepert
Centre of Australian Weather and Climate Research, Bureau of Meteorology

Fri. 19/10/2007, 1pm, M345: Research opportunities from the Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator (ACCESS)
Christian Jacob
Monash University

Fri. 12/10/2007, 1pm, M345: The Influence of Three-Dimensional Radiative Transfer on Cloud Formation and Evolution
Kathrin Walper
The University of Melbourne

Fri. 14/09/2007, 1pm, M345: Gravity wave generation by multiscale tropical convection
Todd Lane
The University of Melbourne

Fri. 07/09/2007, 1pm, M345: Factors responsible for cyclogenesis in the Adelie Land coastal region of Antarctica
Dan Steinhoff
The Ohio State University

Fri. 21/08/2007, 1pm, M345: Heating Structures of the Tropics
Courtney Schumacher
Texas A&M

Thu. 03/08/2007, 1pm, M345: Model Artifacts & the Linkage of Asian Aerosols to Increasing Rainfall over Northwest Australian (NWA)
Wenju Cai
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research

Thu. 27/07/2007, 1pm, Rotunda Building 8, Theatre R5: Where are the most intense thunderstorms on Earth, and why?
Ed Zipser
University of Utah

Mon. 9/03/2006, 1pm, M345: Evaluating Climate Model Simulations of Clouds, Radiation and Precipitation
Robert Pincus
Climate Diagnostics Center
NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory

Wed. 07/02/2007, 3pm, M345: Southern Ocean Eddies and Climate Difference Signals
Nathan Bindoff
ACE CRC, CSIRO MAR,
University of Tasmania and TPAC

Wed. 07/02/2007, 11am, M345: Challenges in Atmospheric Convection and Climate Modeling
Steve Sherwood
Yale University, USA

Tue. 06/02/2007, 3pm, M345: A Cloudy View of Tropical Climate - Cloud Regimes, Latent Heating and Model Evaluation
Christian Jakob
Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre

Wed. 31/01/2007, 3pm, M345: Remote Forcing of Australian Tropical Rainfall by the Asian Aerosol Haze: Modelling, Uncertainties and Implications
Leon Rotstayn
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research

Fri. 15/12/2006, 1pm, M345: Fow adaptive moderation of spurious ensemble correlations
Craig Bishop
Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA, USA

Wed. 06/12/2006, 2pm, M345: Recent developments on pseudospectral methods with applications to tsunamis
Professor John Grue
Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo, Norway

Thu. 23/11/2006, 3pm, M345: Coupled model simulations of mid-Holocene ENSO and comparisons with coral oxygen isotope records
Dr. Jo Brown
School of Geography and Environmental Science

Fri. 17/11/2006, 1pm, M345: Dependence of ensemble spread on model uncertainties for extratropical cyclone simulations
Dr. Hongyan Zhu
Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre

Fri. 25/08/2006, 12 noon, M345: On easterly changes over elevated terrain in Australia's southeast
Graham Mills
Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre

Fri. 11/08/2006, 12 noon, M350 s: The Australian Community Climate Earth-System Simulator (ACCESS)
Kamal Puri
Bureau of Meteorology, ACCESS Science Leader

Fri. 11/08/2006, 12 noon, M350 s: The Australian Community Climate Earth-System Simulator (ACCESS)
Kamal Puri
Bureau of Meteorology, ACCESS Science Leader

Fri. 04/08/2006, 12pm, M345: On the Paradox of Convectively-Coupled Waves
Lyle Pakula
Colorado State University, Visiting at Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre

Fri. 02/06/2006, 1pm, M345: Advances in the Understanding of Wildfires and Smoke Plumes using High-Resolution Numerical Models
Phillip Cunningham
Department of Meteorology, The Florida State University

Fri. 02/06/2006, 1pm, M345: Prediction and Diagnosis of Tropical Cyclone Behaviour from TC-LAPS
Noel Davidson
Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia

Fri. 26/05/2006, 1pm, M345: The CSIRO Mk3.5 Model - Simulations and Evaluation, and status of the ACCESS modelling program
Dr. Tony Hirst
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research

Fri. 19/05/2006, 1pm, M345: Aerosols and Australian rainfall.
Dr. Leon Rotstayn
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research

Fri. 05/05/2006, 1pm, M345: Decadal climate variability in the Pacific and Southern Oceans, and its impact on Australia
Dr. Scott Power
Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre

Fri. 28/04/2006, 1pm, M345: The statistics of recent trends in Australian rainfall and rainfall extremes
Ailie Gallant
Monash University

Thu. 20/04/2006, 1pm, M345: Hydraulic Control in Geophysical Flows: Viscosity, Shear & Time-dependence
Dr Andrew Hogg,
Research School of Earth Sciences
Australian National University

Fri. 31/03/2006, 1pm, M345: CATARINA: THE FIRST DOCUMENTED SOUTH ATLANTIC HURRICANE AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH VERTICAL WIND SHEAR AND HIGH LATITUDE BLOCKING
Dr Alex Pezza
University of Melbourne

Fri. 09/09/2005, 12 noon, M345: Resonant Singular Rossby Waves
Simon Clarke
School of Mathematical Sciences,
Monash University

Fri. 22/07/2005, 12 noon, M345: Global observed changes in extremes of temperature and precipitation
Lisa Alexander
Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research,
Exeter, UK.

Wed. 13/07/2005, 1pm, M345: Process, Pattern, Prediction: Understanding Complexity in Driven Dynamical Systems
John B Rundle
Director, Center for Computational Science and Engineering, University of California, Davis.

Thu. 20/05/2005, 12pm (Noon), M345: An energy-diagnostics intercomparison of coupled ice-ocean Arctic models
Petteri Uotila
School of Geography and Environmental Science Monash University

Thu. 08/04/2005, 1pm, M345: Southern Ocean Circulation and Climate - model perspectives of the past, present and future
Dr Matthew England
University of New South Wales

Thu. 05/04/2005, 1pm, M345: The Shallow Meridional Circulation in the Tropics
Dr Chidong Zhang
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS)
University of Miami

Thu. 24/03/2005, 1pm, M345: Adaptive sampling, verification region selection and data assimilation.
Dr Craig Bishop
Naval Reasearch Laboratory, Monterey, California

Fri. 18/03/2005, 1pm, M345: Aspects of the inner-core dynamics of tropical cyclones
Dr. Roger Smith
University of Munich

Fri. 11/03/2005, 1pm, M345: Do we understand the water vapour feedback?
Dr Steven Sherwood
Yale University.

Fri. 26/11/2004, 1pm, M345: Resonant Interaction of a Surface Wave with two Interfacial Waves, Prof. Brian Seymour, Department of Mathematics, University of British Comlumbia.

Fri. 22/10/2004, 1pm, M345: The influence of air-sea interaction on the MJO in the CSIRO Mark 3 climate model, and its dependence on the state of ENSO, Dr. Ian G. Watterson,CSIRO Atmospheric Research.

Fri. 15/10/2004, 1pm, M345: Real-time validation of model clouds and their optical properties using GMS satellite imagery, Dr Zhian Sun, Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre.

Fri. 01/10/2004, 1pm, M345: Compound solitons and compactons in systems with large-scale dispersion, Dr. Yury Stepanyants, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation.

Fri. 17/09/2004, 1pm, M345: The structure of the background errors in a global ocean wave model, Dr Diana Greenslade, Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre.

Fri. 10/09/2004, 1pm, M345: Implications for fire weather forecasts and outlooks from studies of past events, Dr Graham Mills, Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre.

Fri. 03/09/2004, 1pm, M345: Issues in the Design and Implementation of an Ensemble Kalman Filter, Dr Jeff Kepert, Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre.

Fri. 13/08/2004, 1pm, M345: Polar Vortices - Origins, Observations and Simulations, Dr. Greg Roff, Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre.

Fri. 06/08/2004, 1pm, M345: A New Very High Resolution Boundary Layer Profiler Using Advanced Acoustic Signal Processing Techniques Arising from Intraseasonal Variability, Dr. Andrew Martin. StratoSonde Pty Ltd.

Fri. 28/05/2004, 1pm, M345: Variability of Seasonal-mean Fields Arising from Intraseasonal Variability, Dr Carsten Frederiksen, Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre.

Tues. 25/05/2004, 9 am-12:30 pm, M345: 9 am: Atmospheric transport: Tracer-independent diagnostics and applications, Dr. Mark Holzer, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, The University of British Columbia.

9:45 am: Dynamics of wind-driven ocean circulation, Dr. Andrew Kiss, Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University.

11 am: Exploring the structure of regional climate scenarios by combining synoptic and dynamic guidance and GCM output, Dr. James Risbey, School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University.

11:45 am: Modeled response of the Australian monsoon to changes in land surface temperature, Dr Richard Wardle, School of Earth Sciences, Melbourne University.

Fri. 21/05/2004, 1pm, M345: Air-sea feedback in the Indonesian Monsoon, Dr. Harry Hendon, Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre.

Fri. 14/05/2004, 1pm, E7 Building 72: Radar based analyis and forecast systems, Dr Peter May, Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre.

Fri. 07/05/2004, 4pm, M345: An introduction to the weather radar, Dr Peter May, Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre.

Thur. 22/04/2004, 1pm, SG02 (Menzies Building): Air quality and air pollution in Bangkok, Assoc. Prof. Wanida Jinsart, Dept of General Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.

Fri. 02/04/2004, 1pm, M345: Probabilistic Precipitation Forecasts from Model Output, Dr. Elizabeth Ebert, Weather Forecasting Group, Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre.

Fri. 26/03/2004, 1pm, M345: Mesoscale atmospheric model validation using self-organizing maps, Dr. John Cassano, CIRES/PAOS, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Previous seminars in this series can be found here.
Convenor: Les Muir