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Fridays - Semester 2, 2010

Noon Friday in Room 345 (3rd Floor, Building 28)

Date Speaker Title

6th August

Jared Lee

(Penn State University, USA)

Down-Selection of Numerical Weather Prediction Ensemble Configurations

10am 28th October

Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang

(Utah State University, USA)

Transition-phase climate regimes and teleconnections

11am 28th October

Danijel Belušic

(University of Zagreb, Croatia)

What makes wind flop around?

12th November

Dietmar Dommenget

(MWAC)

Beyond the classical El Niño

19th November

Jun-Ichi Yano

(MeteoFrance)

Large-scale tropical circulations: asymptotic nondivergence?

26th November

Roger Smith

(University of Munich, Germany)

Tropical cyclogenesis

11am Thursday 2nd December

Andrew Marshall

(CAWCR)

Remote drivers of Australian intra-seasonal variability and their representation in POAMA

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Fridays - Semester 1, 2010

Noon Friday in Room 345 (3rd Floor, Building 28)

Date Speaker Title

26th March

Maria (Masha) Tsukernik

(Monash Weather and Climate)

Atmospheric forcing of Fram Strait sea ice export: A closer look

2nd April

GOOD FRIDAY

 

8th April

2pm MSI, Bldg 74

Chris Gordon

UK Met Office Hadley Centre

The Changing Climate Research Agenda

9th April

Darren Hocking

(Monash Weather and Climate)

 

16th April

Dietmar Dommenget

(Monash Weather and Climate)

The Non-existing Indian Ocean Dipole

23rd April

No Seminar

 

 

30th April

No Seminar

 

 

7th May

Jennifer Catto

(Monash Weather and Climate)

Extratropical Storm Tracks in a Warming Climate

14th May

Amanda Lynch

(Monash Weather and Climate)

Democracy and Climate Change

21st May

Matt Wheeler

(CAWCR)

Real-time Multivariate MJO (RMM) index: Motivation, definition, and some recent applications

27th May

Nicholas Klingaman

(NCAS-University of Reading, UK)

What controls inter-annual and decadal variability in Queensland rainfall?

28th May

Zoe Loh

(CSIRO)

Atmospheric monitoring at geological carbon storage facilities: characterising and improving detection limits

4th June

No Seminar

 

 

11th June

Patrice Meunier

(IRPHE, CNRS/Aix-Marseille Universités, France)

Instabilities of a columnar vortex in a stratified fluid

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Fridays - Semester 2, 2009

1:00 pm Friday in Room 345 (3rd Floor, Building 28)

Date Speaker Title

31st July

Simon Caine

(School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash)

Evaluation of the WRF model using precipitation regimes derived from radar data

7th August

Mick Pope

(Bureau of Meteorology)

Regimes of the North Australian wet season

14th August

Gareth Berry

(School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash)

African Easterly Wave dynamics

Tuesday 18th August

Tom Ackerman

(University of Washington, Seattle)

Clouds in climate models: Real, lies, or statistics?

21st August

William Rossow

(City College NY)

Energy exchanges during MJO events as an illustration of the diagnosis of feedbacks

28th August

GEWEX CONFERENCE

Monday 31st August

Bert Holtslag

(University of Wageningen, Netherlands)

Atmospheric Boundary Layers, Weather and Climate

4th September

Steve Siems/Anthony Morrison

(Monash)

Southern Ocean Clouds and Cloud Seeding over Tasmania

11th September

Michael Reeder

(Monash)

Convergence lines in the Gulf region

18th September

Todd Lane

(Melbourne Uni)

Aircraft encounters of turbulence over Greenland

25th September

David Campbell

(University of Waikato, New Zealand)

CO2, water vapour and energy exchange in northern New Zealand peat wetlands—an Australian connection

2nd October

Chris Snyder

(NCAR, Boulder, Colorado, USA)

Short inertia-gravity waves generated by large-scale balanced vortices

9th October

James Screen

(Melbourne Uni)

Poles apart: Some aspects of Antarctic and Arctic climate change

16th October

Christian Jakob

(Monash)

Southern Ocean Clouds - forgettable or just forgotten?

23rd October

Tom Chubb

(Monash)

NCAR Advanced Studies Program -- Summer Colloquium in Cloud Physics for Early Career Scientists

30th October

No seminar

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6th November

Salah Jimi

(Monash)

Post-frontal nanoparticles at Cape Grim

Tuesday 10th November, 12 Noon

Victoria Sinclair

(University of Helsinki, Finland)

Pollution transport by weather systems: Interactions between boundary layer and synoptic scale processes

13th November

Jun-Ichi Yano

(CNRM, Météo-France)

Revisit of the hot tower concept by Riehl and Malkus (1958)

Wednesday 18th November, 12 Noon

Ewan O'Conner

(University of Reading, UK/FinnishMeteorological Institute, Finland)

Cloudnet: the evaluation of profiles of cloud properties in operational models using ground-based active remote-sensing.

Thursday 26th November, 11 am

Andreas Hense

(Business Information Systems, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences)

Publication of Environmental Data.

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Fridays - Semester 1, 2009

1.00 pm Friday in Room 345 (3rd Floor, Building 28)

Date Speaker Title

20th February

John Haynes

(School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash)

The detection and distribution of light rainfall from CloudSat

27th February

Thomas Spengler

(ETH Zurich)

Midlatitude response to stationary and nonstationary tropical heating

6th March

Peter Baines

(University of Melbourne & Bristol, UK)

The attribution of causes of current decadal droughts

13th March

Andrew Marshall

(UK Met Office)

Impact of stratospheric resolution on seasonal forecast skill for Europe

20th March

Jason Beringer

(School of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash)

Fire in Australian Savannas: from leaf to landscape

27th March

Jennifer Catto

(University of Reading, UK)

The representation of extratropical cyclones in a high resolution coupled climate model

3rd April

No seminar


Thursday 9th April

Les Muir

(School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash)

Fronts, orography and the boundary layer

17th April

No seminar

Easter Break

24th April

Patrick Baker

(School of Biological Sciences, Monash)

Tree-rings and climate: An Australasian perspective

8th May

Petteri Uotila

(School of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash)

Warming of the Antarctic ice-sheet surface and changing large-scale atmospheric circulation

22nd May

Dave Griggs

(Monash Sustainability Institute)

The Monash Sustainability Institute and ClimateWorks Australia - what are they and what do they do?

12th June

Pallavi Govekar

(School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash)

The Partitioning of Tropical Circulations and Their Variability

19th June

Tadhg O'Loingsigh

(School of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash)

Lost in Code: The Case of the Missing Dust Storms in Australia

26th June

Marty Singh

(School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash)

ISCCP cloud regimes and the tropical warm-pool

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