Past PSD Seminars: Fall 2007

If you are interested in giving a seminar here, please contact joseph.barsugli@colorado.edu

Current PSD seminar schedule


Date Seminar
10 January 2007
Wednesday, 2:00 pm
Refreshments at 1:50 pm
Barbara Brown, NCAR
Moving toward user-focused verification [Abstract]

PSD-South Conference Room (1D403)
24 January 2007
Wednesday, 2:00 pm
Refreshments at 1:50 pm
Nedjeljka Zagar, NCAR/ASP
Towards a multivariate tropical data assimilation based on equatorial waves [Abstract]

PSD-South Conference Room (1D403)
31 January 2007
Wednesday, 2:00 pm
Refreshments at 1:50 pm
Jian Lu, NCAR
Expansion of the Hadley cell under global warming [Abstract]

PSD-South Conference Room (1D403)
14 February 2007
Wednesday, 2:00 pm
Refreshments at 1:50 pm
James Prairie, USBR and CADSWES, Univ. of Colorado
Stochastic Nonparametric Framework for Basin Wide Streamflow and Salinity Modeling: Application for the Colorado River Basin [Abstract]

PSD-South Conference Room (1D403)
28 February 2007
Wednesday, 2:00pm
Refreshments at 1:50 pm
Carrie Morrill , NOAA National Climatic Data Center
The response of the Indian monsoon to North Atlantic freshwater forcing during the early Holocene and Last Glacial Maximum [Abstract]

PSD-South Conference Room (1D403)
7 March 2007
Wednesday, 2:00 pm
Refreshments at 1:50 pm
Levi Brekke, U. S. Bureau of Reclamation
Exploring the use of Risk Analysis to study the effects of climate change on Californias Central Valley water and power operations [Abstract]

PSD-South Conference Room (1D403)
Co-sponsored by ESRL/PSD and the Western Water Assessment
14 March 2007
Wednesday, 2:00 pm
Refreshments at 1:50 pm
David Yates, NCAR
Putting the Water Cycle to Work: A Collaboration between NCAR and the American Water Works Association Research Foundation (AwwaRF) [Abstract]

PSD South Conference Room (1D403)
Co-sponsored by ESRL/PSD and the Western Water Assessment
21 March 2007
Wednesday, 2:00 pm
Refreshments at 1:50 pm
Klaus Weickmann, ESRL/PSD
Subseasonal forecasting during HMT2007 [Abstract]

PSD-South Conference Room (1D403)
28 March 2007
Wednesday, 2:00 pm
Refreshments at 1:50 pm
Simon de Szoeke, ESRL/PSD
The tropical eastern Pacific seasonal cycle: An assessment of coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation models [Abstract]

PSD-South conference Room (1D403)
11 April 2007
Wednesday, 2:00pm
Refreshments at 1:50 pm
Judith Perlwitz, ESRL/PSD and CIRES, University of Colorado
The Impact of Tropical Indian Ocean Warming on Southern Hemisphere Polar Climate [Abstract]

PSD-South Conference Room (1D403)
18 April 2007
Wednesday, 2:00pm
Refreshments at 1:50 pm
Heather Reeves, North Carolina State University and NCAR
Dynamic forcing and mesoscale variability of heavy precipitation events over the Sierra Nevada mountains [Abstract]

PSD South Conference Room (1D403)
2 May 2007
Wednesday, 2:00 pm
Refreshments at 1:50 pm
Amy Wagner, Knauss Sea Grant Fellow, Washington, DC
Corals at the Flower Garden Banks: Monitors of environmental change and North American climate variability

PSD-South Conference Room (1D403)
31 May 2007
Thursday, 2:00 pm
Refreshments will be served
Note: Special Thursday Seminar

Frank Bradley, CSIRO
From Kansas to Galapagos: A Personal Historical Perspective on 50 Years of Boundary-Layer Research [Abstract]

ESRL Briefing Room (3B504)
14 June 2007
Thursday, 12:00 Noon
Note: Special Thursday "Brown Bag" lunchtime seminar

Michelle L'Heureux, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC
Overview of Intraseasonal Climate Activities at NCEP/Climate Prediction Center [Abstract]

PSD-South Conference Room (1D403)
20 June 2007
Wednesday, 2:00 pm
Refreshments at 1:50 pm
Harry van Loon, NCAR
The Effect of Peaks in the Solar Decadal Oscillation on Atmosphere and Ocean in the Pacific Region [Abstract]

DSRC Multipurpose Room (GC402)
11 July 2007
Wednesday, 2:00pm
Hugh Morrison, NCAR
Simulating Arctic mixed-phase clouds using a new two-moment microphysics scheme in MM5 and WRF [Abstract]

DSRC Multipurpose Room (GC402)
12 July 2007
Thursday, 2:00pm
Note: Special Thursday Seminar

Jessica Lundquist, University of Washington
Distributed Temperatures in the Snow Zone: Spatial Patterns and Innovative Measurement Techniques [Abstract]

PSD-South Conference Room (1D403)
25 July 2007
Wednesday, 2:00 pm
Refreshments at 1:50pm
Mariusz Pagowski, ESRL/GSD
Behaviour of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model boundary layer and surface parameterizations in one-dimensional simulations during the BAMEX field campaign [Abstract]

PSD-South Conference Room (1D403)
8 August 2007
Wednesday, 2:00 pm
Refreshments at 1:50 pm
Christopher Anderson, ESRL/GSD
Sensitivity of the 1993 Summer Hydrological Cycle to Gulf of Mexico Sea Surface Temperatures [Abstract]

PSD-South Map Room (1D708)
Note: Room has been changed.
7 September 2007
Friday, 11:00 AM
Joint CSD/PSD Seminar

Douglas D. Davis, Georgia Institute of Technology
The Antarctica Plateau: A New Look at Boundary Layer Atmospheric Chemistry [Abstract]

CSD Conference Room(2A305)
Note: Special Friday Seminar at 11AM
11 September 2007
Tuesday, 2:00 pm
Refreshments at 1:50 pm
Brian Mapes, RSMAS, University of Miami
Predictability on an aqua planet, as deduced from global explicit-convection simulations
[Presentation Slides]
PSD-South Conference Room (1D403)
27 September 2007
Thursday, 2:00 pm
Refreshments at 1:50pm
Norman "Wes" Junker, NOAA/NCEP/HPC
An Overview of Research Activities at NCEP's Hydrologic Prediction Center [Abstract]
[Presentation Slides]
DSRC Multipurpose Room (GC402)
Note: Special Thursday Seminar
3 October 2007
Wednesday, 2:00 pm
Refreshments at 1:50 pm
Vladimir Ostashev, NOAA ESRL, Physical Sciences Division
Acoustic Tomography of the Atmosphere [Abstract]

PSD-South Conference Room (1D403)
10 October 2007
Wednesday, 2:00 pm
Refreshments at 1:50 pm
B. Boba Stankov, NOAA ESRL, Physical Sciences Division
High-Resolution Airborne Microwave Imaging of Snow Cover and Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) Retrieval [Abstract]
[Presentation Slides]
PSD-South Conference Room (1D403)
17 October 2007
Wednesday, 2:00 pm
Refreshments at 1:50 pm
Tom Hamill, NOAA ESRL, Physical Sciences Division
Probabilistic Weather Forecast Calibration: New Results from the ECMWF Reforecasts [Abstract]
[Presentation Slides]
PSD-South Conference Room (1D403)
19 October 2007
Friday, 11:00 am
Note: Additional Friday Morning PSD Seminar

Toshi Shinoda, Naval Research Lab,Stennis Space Center
Variability of intraseasonal Kelvin waves in the equatorial Pacific Ocean [Abstract]

PSD-South Conference Room (1D403)
25 October 2007
Thursday, 12:15 pm
Informal "Brown Bag" Lunchtime Seminar

Chris Funk, Natural Hazards Group, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
Statistical Reformulations of AMIP Precipitation Fields

PSD-South Conference Room (1D403)
25 October 2007
Thursday, 2:00 pm
Refreshments at 1:50 pm
NOTE: Special Thursday Seminar

Ryan Fogt, ESRL/PSD NRC Post Doctoral Fellow
Centennial Southern Annular Mode Behavior in Observations and IPCC AR4 Models [Abstract]

PSD-South Conference Room (1D403)
31 October 2007
Wednesday, 11:00 am
Refreshments at 10:50 am
NOTE: Special Time

Al Gasiewski, Center for Environmental Technology, University of Colorado
Airborne Imaging of Soil Moisture [Abstract]

DSRC Multipurpose Room (GC402)
31 October 2007
Wednesday, 3:00 pm
Additional PSD Seminar -- Note: Special Time

Gabriel Lau, NOAA/GFDL
Simulation of the East Asian Monsoon using a High-Resolution AGCM [Abstract]

PSD-South Conference Room (1D403)
27 November 2007
Tuesday, 11:00 am
NOTE: Corrected Seminar Time -- Special Tuesday Morning Seminar

John Abatzoglou, Desert Research Institute
Spring And Fall: The Neglected Seasons [Abstract]

PSD-South Conference Room (1D403)
5 December 2007
Wednesday, 2:00 pm
Refreshments at 1:50 pm
Marty Hoerling, ESRL, Physical Sciences Division
Mechanism for the Sudden Rise in U.S. Temperatures [Abstract]

PSD-South Conference Room1D403

Past seminars: 1996-2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 (Jan. - Aug.). 2007 (Sept. - Dec.).