AOS Colloquium Series

Spring 2007-2008

The Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences sponsors a colloquium each Monday afternoon. Talks are held at 3:30 pm in room 811 of the Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Science Building at 1225 W. Dayton Street. You are invited to join us before the colloquium at 3:15 for coffee, tea, and cookies in room 853 Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences Building.

The following talks are currently scheduled for Spring semester 2007-2008

If you want to refer to last semester's Colloquium series, please click here.

If you want to sign up to meet the colloquium speakers, please go to this web site:
www.aos.wisc.edu/wcal/UW-AOS/index.cgi
You may need to click on the arrow a couple of times to get to the correct week.

January 28

B.J.Sohn, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences Seoul National University
Topic: Variation of upper tropospheric humidity and its relations to convective activities over the tropics

February 4

David Gutzler, University of New Mexico,
Topic: A River Runs Through It: Seasonal climate predictions and river flows in the land of the 6-inch monsoon

February 11

Mike Alexander
Topic: Extratropical Influences on ENSO: observational and model evidence for the Seasonal Footprinting Mechanism

February 18

CANCELLED

February 25

Greg Tripoli, University of Wisconsin-Madison AOS
Topic: Vortex Mergers and Tornado Genesis

March 5

Laurie McMurdie University of Washington
Topic: Weather Regimes and Forecast Errors in the Pacific Northwest

March 10

John Knox, University of Georgia
Topic: New Dynamical Directions in Clear-Air Turbulence Forecasting

March 24

Bob Krumenaker,Apostle Islands National Lakeshore National Park Service
Topic: Climate Change and the National Parks

March 31

Larry Sromovsky UW SSEC
Topic:Uranus at Equinox: Seasonal change in the outer solar system

April 7

Altug Aksoy, Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Div., NCAR
Topic:Ensemble-Based Radar Data Assimilation for Convective Scales: Challenges and Recent Advances

April 14

Bette Otto-Bliesner, Climate Change Research, NCAR
Topic: A Paleoclimatic Perspective on Polar Warmth,Ice Sheet Stability, and Sea Level Rise

April 21

CANCELLED

April 28

Yvette Richardson, Penn State
Topic: Understanding severe storms through numerical simulations and mobile radar observations

May 5

Jean-Pierre Blanchet Universite du Quebec a Montreal
Topic:Detection and Analysis of Thin Ice Clouds-Aerosol-Precipitation Interactions Over Polar Regions During Winter from Satellite, PEARL Site and NARCM Simulations

Check the University Calendar for additional events this month.