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Colloquia Schedule for 2010

Spring 2010

Date	Speaker name and affiliation	Title
Jan 20	Somnath Baidya Roy, Assistant Professor Department of Atmospheric Sciences University of Illinois	Monitoring, Modeling and Mitigating Impacts of Wind Farms on Local Meteorology
Jan 27	Spyros Pandis, Professor Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University	Controlling Atmospheric Particulate Matter: From Measurements to Models to Policy
Feb 3	Jason Keeler, Graduate Student Department of Atmospheric Sciences University of Illinois	Lake-Breezes in the Windy City: Observations of Lake-Breeze Frontal Movement through the Chicago Area
Feb 10	Lantao Sun, Graduate Student Department of Atmospheric Sciences University of Illinois	Downward Influence of Stratospheric Final Warming Events In An Idealized Model
Feb 17	Hilary Minor, Graduate Student Department of Atmospheric Sciences University of Illinois	Trade Wind Cloud Evolution Observed by Polarization Radar-Relationship to Aerosol Characteristics
Feb 24	Allen Robinson, Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University	Updating Our Conceptual Model for Fine Particle From Combustion Systems
Mar 3	Katharine Hayhoe, Graduate Student Department of Atmospheric Sciences University of Illinois	Regional Climate DownscalingTechniques: Developing a Standardized Evaluation Framework
Mar 10	Pamela Martin, Assistant Professor Department of the Geophysical Sciences University of Chicago	Climate Reconstructions of the Last Million Years, a Look at the Linkages Among Oceans, Atmosphere and Ice Sheets
Mar 17	Walter Robinson, Professor Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences North Carolina State University	It's All Connected: Model Biases, Gravity Waves, and the Dynamics of the General Circulation
Mar 24	Spring Break, No Seminar
Mar 31	John Mak, Associate Professor School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences Stony Brook University	From Airplanes to Ice Cores: an Historical Perspective on the Origin and Fate of Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide
Apr 7	Mark Miller, Associate Professor Department of Environmental Sciences Rutgers University	The Climate of the West African Sahel Region and its Representation in Global Climate Models
Apr 14	Greg Michalski, Assistant Professor Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University	Understanding acid rain, climate, earth and planetary atmospheres, and biologic turnover of nitrogen using multiple stable isotope approaches
Apr 20	Gong Zhang Department of Atmospheric Sciences University of Illinois	The Shape and Phase of Small Hydrometeors Measured in Mixed-phase Stratus during M-PACE and ISDAC
Apr 21	OGURA LECTURE Eugenia Kalnay, Professor Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences University of Maryland	In the Midst of Chaos, Good Predictions
Apr 28	Lynn Russell, Professor Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California San Diego	Organic Acid, Hydroxyl, and Sulfate Group Composition in Marine, Combustion, Biomass Burning, and Biogenic Particles
May 5	Daniela Lindner, Graduate Student Department of Atmospheric Sciences University of Illinois	Five Oscillations in the Global Climate System

Fall 2010

Date	Speaker name and affiliation	Title
25 Aug	Xin-Zhong Liang, Professor Department of Atmospheric Sciences University of Illinois	Development of CWRF for Regional Weather and Climate Prediction: General Model Description and Basic Skill Evaluation
1 Sep	Pingping Xie NOAA / Climate Prediction Center	High Resolution Global Precipitation Analyses for Improved Applications in Weather, Climate and Hydrometeorology
8 Sep	Kirstin Gleicher, Graduate Student Department of Atmospheric Sciences University of Illinois	“A vorticity based analysis of the Beaufort Anticyclone”
15 Sep	Anne Stoner, Graduate Student Department of Atmospheric Sciences University of Illinois	A Quantile-Based Approach to Statistically Downscaling Local Temperature and Precipitation Projections
22 Sep	Fuqing Zhang, Professor Department of Meteorology, Pennsylvania State University	Predictability of Severe Weather at the Mesoscales
29 Sep	Alison Anders, Assistant Professor Department of Geology, University of Illinois	Stable Isotopes in Mountain Precipitation: Records of Geologic Change
6 Oct	Scott Braun Laboratory for Atmospheres, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center	Re-evaluating the role of the Saharan Air Layer in Atlantic tropical cyclogenesis and evolution
13 Oct	Derrick Herndon Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison	An Overview of the Tropical Cyclone Products Produced at CIMSS
20 Oct	Daniel Harnos, Graduate Student Department of Atmospheric Sciences University of Illinois	Predictability of Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Intensity Change from Passive Microwave Sensors
27 Oct	Feng Sheng Hu, Professor Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois	Ice and Fire: Responses of Arctic Ecosystems to Late-Quaternary Climatic Change
3 Nov	Greg Tripoli, Professor Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Numerical Simulation of a Supercell Tornado
10 Nov	George Kiladis NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory Physical Sciences Division	Equatorial Waves, Atmospheric Convection and the Large Scale Circulation
17 Nov	Dave Nolan, Associate Professor Division of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami	Fun with Point-Downscaling
24 Nov	No seminar - Thanksgiving break
1 Dec	Ed Zipser, Professor Department of Atmospheric Sciences University of Utah	Seeking Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Tropical Cyclogenesis During the Field Programs of 2010
8 Dec	Jennifer Haase, Assistant Professor Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University	The Use of Airborne GPS Radio Occultation to Investigate Tropical Cyclone Development

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