Meteorology Colloquia in the Department of Meteorology

All departmental colloquia are held on Thursdays at 4:00 p.m. in room 112 Walker Building unless otherwise noted. Refreshments are served at 3:30 p.m. in the Alfred K. Blackadar Reading Room (529 Walker).
FALL 2002	Last updated 11/7/02.

Date	Speaker & Affiliation	Title (click for abstract)
August 29	Graduate Reception
September 5
September 6 Dept. of Geography Colloquium 4:00 p.m. 301 Steidle	Dr. Uri Dayan Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dept. of Geography Dr. Dayan is currently a Visiting Research Scholar in the Department of Meteorology.	"Predicting Major Floods in the Negev Desert, Israel."
September 12
September 16 10:00 a.m. 529 Walker Refreshments at 9:45 3:30 p.m. 125 Reber Bldg. Refreshments at 3:15	Ann-Sofi Smedman with Ulf Högström Uppsala University, Department of Earth Sciences, Meteorology Ulf Högström (Uppsala University, Department of Earth Sciences, Meteorology) with J.C.R. Hunt (University College, London, Depts. of Space, Climate Physics and Geological Sciences) and Ann-Sofi Smedman (Uppsala University, Department of Earth Sciences, Meteorology.)	"The Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer -- New Findings from the Östergarnshom Station in the Baltic Sea" "Active Turbulence, Inactive Turbulence and Shear Sheltering in Atmospheric Boundary Layer Flow"
Special Seminar Wed., September 18 3:35 p.m. 124 Walker Bldg.	Wes Junker NCEP	"Establishing a 10 year climatology of 4 inch rainfall days; a cooperative effort between NWS and two universities."
September 19	Dean Gulezian Eastern Region Director, National Weather Service	"Advances in understanding and predicting the weather: A look into the future."
Special Seminar Tues., September 24 10:00 a.m. Blackadar Reading Room (529 Walker Bldg.)	Jim Steenburgh Department of Meteorology and NOAA Cooperative Institute for Regional Prediction, University of Utah	"The Greatest Snow on Earth? An Overview of Intermountain Orographic Precipitation Processes and Prediction."
September 26	Bob Tuleya/Naomi Surgi NWS Hurricanes	"Recent Progress in NCEP/EMC's Hurricane Prediction Capability and Future Plans"
October 3	Chris Jeffery Los Alamos National Lab	"Stochastic Treatment of Three Problems in Meteorology"
October 10	Wade McGillis WHOI	"Carbon dioxide exchange across air-water surfaces"
Special Seminar Fri., October 11 1:30 p.m. 529 Walker Bldg.	Jeffrey K. Lazo, Ph.D. Stratus Consulting Inc., Boulder CO	"Economic Value of Weather Forecasts: A National Study of Households"
October 17	NO COLLOQUIUM--CANCELLED	NO COLLOQUIUM--CANCELLED
October 24	Howard Barker Meteorological Service of Canada	"The Monte Carlo Independent Column Approximation: Purification of Radiative Transfer in GCMs"
Terry and Carmen Tarbell Lecture October 31	Kenneth Mitchell NCEP Environmental Modeling Center, NOAA	"Land Surface and Hydrology Modeling Comes Home to Roose in Operational NWP: A Decade of Advancements in Land-surface Modeling in NCEP Prediction Models and Data Assimilation Systems"
November 7	Ed Zipser Professor and Chair, Department of Meteorology, University of Utah	"Global Distribution of Intense Convection"
November 14	David J. Carlson Atmospheric Technology Division Director, NCAR	"Capabilities and Developments in NCAR's Atmospheric Technology Division" [Click here to schedule an appointment with Dave Carlson.]
November 21	Toby Carlson	"Urban Sprawl and Surface Runoff in Happy Valley, as Seen from Satellite, Now and in 2025."
December 5	Graduate Forum

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