SEAS Colloquium in Climate Science (SCiCS)
The SEAS Colloquium in Climate Science (SCiCS) is a new school-wide seminar series, beginning in Fall 2009, which meets on Thursdays in the APAM Department. For more information, please contact Prof. Lorenzo Polvani.
Thursdays, 2:45-3:45 PM, Room 214 Mudd
9/17/09
Jonathon Wright, Columbia University/APAM
"Diagnosis of relative humidity changes in a warmer climate using tracers of last saturation"
Host: Lorenzo Polvani
9/24/09
Rob Korty, Texas A&M University
"Tropospheric thermal stratification across climate states"
Host: Lorenzo Polvani
10/1/09
Isla Simpson, University of Toronto
"The role of eddies in driving the tropospheric response to stratospheric heating perturbations"
Host: Lorenzo Polvani
10/08/09
Cancelled
10/15/09
Eric D. Maloney, Colorado State University
"Intraseasonal variability in an aquaplanet general circulation model"
Host: Adam Sobel
10/22/09
Clara Deser, National Center for Atmospheric Research
"Future projections of atmospheric circulation patterns:
mechanisms and uncertainties"
Host: Lorenzo Polvani
10/29/09
Nir Krakauer, CUNY
"Inferring changes in Himalayan snow and its contribution to water supply"
Host: Lorenzo Polvani / Adam Sobel
11/5/09
Sandra Yuter, North Carolina State University
"Characteristics of flooding and non-flooding storms over US west coast and implications for their prediction"
Host: Adam Sobel
11/12/09
Daniel Klocke, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
"Evaluating climate feedbacks in a GCM: focus on methods and clouds"
Host: Anthony DelGenio
11/19/09
Daniel A. Knopf, SUNY Stony Brook
"The role of the organic aerosol fraction on ice cloud formation"
Host: V. Faye McNeill
12/3/09
Paul Dirmeyer, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, IGES
Title TBA
Host: Upmanu Lall
12/10/09
Daniel Jacob, Harvard University
"Arctic pollution: early results from the ARCTAS aircraft mission"
Host: V. Faye McNeill
To be added to the SCiCS email list, please contact seasinfo.apam@columbia.edu