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All departmental colloquia are held on Thursdays at 4:00 p.m.  in room 112 Walker Building unless otherwise noted.  Refreshments for Thursday seminars are served at 3:30 p.m. in the Alfred K. Blackadar Reading Room (529 Walker). Previous semester schedules are listed at the bottom of the page.
FALL 2005
Last updated January 3, 2006
Date Speaker & Affiliation Title (click for abstract)
September 1 New Graduate Student Reception 529 Walker Building
September 8 Michael Riemer
University of Karlsruhe, Germany		 "Interaction between tropical cyclones and idealized baroclinic waves"
September 15 Terry C. and Carmen H. Tarbell Lecture in Meteorology
Keith L. Seitter
Executive Director of the American Meteorological Society		 The Role of AMS in Fostering "Partnerships" within the Weather and Climate Enterprise
September 22 Christian Franzke
Courant Institute at NYU		 Systematic Stochastic Modeling of Climate Variability
September 29 Russ Dickerson
University of Maryland		 Air Pollution in Baltimore and Beijing: A Tale of Two Cities
October 6 Larry Mahrt
Oregon State University		 Mixing in very stable conditions; problems and new concepts

October 13

 

 

 

 

 

Special Seminar
10:00 a.m.
529 Walker Building

Jeffrey K. Lazo
UCAR

 

 

 

 


Bruce Albrecht
University of Miami

The Sensitivity of United States Economic Sectors to Weather Variability

Also, from 12 - 1:30 p.m. in 529 Walker: “Brownbag”
on NCAR’s Collaborative Program on the Societal and Economic Impacts of Weather Information (Societal Impacts Program)


"Clouds and Precipitation over Florida and the Caribbean New Observational Perspectives."
October 20 Ken Pickering
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the
University of Maryland		 "Lightning NOx Production and Its Consequences for Tropospheric Chemistry"
October 27 Everette Joseph
Howard University
  
November 3 Andrew Kleit and
Mark Roulston
Penn State
Department of Meteorology		 "Meteorology in the experimental economics laboratory:
Why we think we can predict the weather better than you."

November 10

CANCELLED
Andy Jacobson
Princeton University

CANCELLED
"Is There A CO2 Fertilization Sink? Oceanic Constraints on Land Fluxes."

November 17

Dave Turner
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

"Clouds as seen from a ground-based longwave radiance interferometer: What can we learn?"

November 24

No Colloquium Speaker
Thanksgiving

 

December 1

Hermann Gerber
Gerber Scientific Inc.

"Holes and Entrainment In Stratocumulus"
December 8 Klaus Keller
Penn State, Department of Geosciences		 "Decision-making under uncertain climate change: Implications for the design of climate observation systems"

 


 
 

 

  

 

Schedules from previous semesters:
  [Spring 2005 schedule]
[Fall 2004 schedule] [Spring 2004 schedule]
[Fall 2003 schedule] [Spring 2003 schedule]
[Fall 2002 schedule]  


Last Updated: January 3, 2006

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