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2019-2020
Autumn Term (Oct-Dec 2019)
| Date | Speaker | Institute | Title |
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26/09/2019 (Thursday, 10:00) |
Prof Georgiy Stenchikov | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology | Effect of radiative heating on the dispersion of stratospheric volcanic plumes in a fine-resolution regional model |
| 03/10/2019 (Thursday, 16:00, H130) | Dr Stephan Juricke | University of Oxford | Modelling ocean weather |
| 08/10/2019 | Dr Yohan Ruprich-Robert | BSC-CNS | The North Atlantic decadal variability: its climate impacts and its origins |
| 15/10/2019 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 22/10/2019 | Prof Ben Murray | University of Leeds | Ice nucleating aerosol particles and the cloud-phase climate feedback |
| 29/10/2019 | Prof Geoffrey Vallis | University of Exeter | A Mechanism of the Madden-Julian Oscillation and its Relation to Excitable Media |
| 05/11/2019 | Dr Andrew Gettelman | NCAR (and Oxford University) | Cloud processes at the intersection of Climate Forcing and Feedback |
| 12/11/2019 | Dr James Keeble | University of Cambridge | Modelling the Potential Impacts on Total Column Ozone Recovery of the Recent, Unexpected Increases in CFC-11 emissions |
| 19/11/2019 | Asst. Prof Ashwin Seshadri | Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences |
Simple models of monsoon bifurcation and global warming
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| 26/11/2019 | Dr Daniel McCoy | University of Leeds | Observational constraints on aerosol-induced cloud brightening and liquid content changes |
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05/12/2019 (Thursday 15:30-17:30) |
Dr Ayako Yamamoto and Prof Hisashi Nakamura | JAMSTEC (Dr. Yamamoto) and RCAST (Prof Nakamura) |
Key role of western boundary currents in wintertime Euro-Atlantic blocking (Dr. Yamamoto) Processes shaping the frontal-scale time-mean surface wind convergence patterns in winter around the warm western boundary currents (Prof Nakamura) |
| 10/12/2019 | Dr Thomas Smith | LSE | Smoke and mirrors: Why are tropical biomass burning emissions important? And how do we measure them? |
Spring Term (Jan-March 2020)
| Date | Speaker | Institute | Title |
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| 14/01/2020 | Professor Piers Forster | Leeds | How should we interpret CMIP6 results? |
| 21/01/2020 | Dr Eleanor Frajka-Williams | National Oceanography Centre | Measuring the large-scale ocean circulation: Variability, connectivity and new approaches |
| 28/01/2020 | Dr Richard Staley | Cambridge | Climatic periods: A history |
| 04/02/2020 | Dr Chris Smith | Leeds | The Utility of Simple Climate Models |
| 11/02/2020 | Prof Nadine Unger | Exeter | Air pollution impacts on the carbon cycle and climate |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 25/02/2020 | Dr Vincent Hare | Cape Town | Plants, Palaeoatmospheres, and Carbon Isotopes |
| 03/03/2020 | Professor Richard Essery | N/A | N/A |
| 10/03/2020 | Dr Tim Trent | N/A | N/A |
| 17/03/2020 | Dr Anthony Baran | Reading | Towards a new generation of physically consistent ice crystal scattering models |
Summer Term (May-June 2020)
| Date | Speaker | Institute | Title |
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| 12/05/2020 (Tuesday, 16:00) | Dr. Mark Zelinka | Causes of Higher Climate Sensitivity in CMIP6 Models | |
| 19/05/2020 (Tuesday, 11:00) | David Schultz | University of Manchester | How to Write Titles and Abstracts |
| 26/05/2020 (Tuesday, 16:00) | Dr Yana Bebieva | Florida State University | The regulation of sea ice thickness by double-diffusive processes in the Ross Gyre |
| 02/06/2020 (Tuesday, 11:00) | Dr. Kasia Tokarska | ETH Zurich | Carbon budgets for the Paris Agreement: uncertainties, overshoot scenarios, and high warming models |
| 09/06/2020 (Tuesday, 16:30) | Dr. Nick Lutsko | Scripps | Conceptual Models for Temperature and Heat Stress Extremes, and How These Change with Warming |
| 16/06/2020 (Tuesday, 11:30) | Alistair Manning | Met Office | TBD |
| 23/06/2020 (Tuesday, 10:00) | Dr. Jan D. Zika | University of New South Wales | TBD |
| 30/06/2020 (Tuesday, 16:00) | Dr. Isla Simpson | NCAR | TBD |
| 07/07/2020 (Tuesday 16:00) | Dr. Roisin Commane | Columbia | TBD |
2018-2019
Autumn Term (Oct-Dec) 2018-2019
Spring Term (Jan-Mar) 2018-2019
Summer Term (May-June) 2018-2019
| Date | Speaker | Institute | Title |
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| 30/04/2019 | Dr David Smeed | National Oceanography Centre | The reduced state of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation |
| 07/05/2019 | Pending | - | - |
| 14/05/2019 | Prof Benjamin Muray | University of Leeds | postponed |
| 21/05/2019 | Mr Adrian Leung | University of Reading | Atmospheric predictability: the origins of the finite-time behaviour |
| 28/05/2019 | Prof Mike Cullen | Met Office | Use of a diagnostic based on semi-geostrophic theory to understand the behaviour of a comprehensive atmospheric circulation model on large scales |
| 04/06/2019 | Prof Ken Carslaw | University of Leeds | New insights into ice nucleation and its effect on cloud reflectivity |
| 11/06/2019 | Dr Nicolas Bellouin | University of Reading | - |
| 18/06/2019 | Prof Pier Luigi Vidale | University of Reading | - |
| 25/06/2019 | Prof Pierre Friedlingstein | University of Exeter | - |
| 01/07/2019 (MONDAY) | Dr Malte Stuecker | Pusan National University |
2017-2018
Autum Term
Spring Term
Summer Term
2016-2017
Autumn Term
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Date |
Speaker |
Institute |
Title |
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04/10/2016 |
Dr. Balu Nadiga |
Los Alamos | |
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11/10/2016 |
Dr. Pablo Ortega |
Reading |
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18/10/2016 |
Dr. Daniel Mitchell |
Oxford |
Heat waves and climate change: from the physics to the impacts on human health |
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25/10/2016 |
Dr. David Ham |
Imperial |
Firedrake: a system for automating finite element simulations |
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01/11/2016 |
Dr. Frederic Vitart |
ECMWF |
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08/11/2016 |
Prof. Valerio Lucarini |
Reading |
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15/11/2016 |
Dr. Laura Wilcox |
Reading |
The role of anthropogenic aerosol in global and regional change |
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22/11/2016 |
Dr. Doug Smith |
Met Office |
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29/11/2016 |
Dr. Phillipe Lopez |
ECMWF |
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06/12/2016 |
Dr. Patrick Hyder |
Met Office |
Air-sea exchange variability and its atmosphere/ocean model resolution-dependence in HadGEM3 |
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13/12/2016 |
Dr. Florian Sévellec |
NOC |
Dynamical attribution of oceanic prediction uncertainty in the North Atlantic |
Spring Term
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Date |
Speaker |
Institute |
Title |
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10/01/2017 |
Prof. Alberto Garabato |
University of Southampton |
The role of submesoscale turbulence in regulating the annual cycle of the upper-ocean mixed layer |
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17/01/2017 |
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24/01/2017 |
Dr. Chris Jones |
Met Office |
The carbon cycle behaviour under low mitigation scenarios, implications of the Paris Agreement |
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31/01/2017 |
Dr. Chris Brierley |
UCL |
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07/02/2017 |
Prof. Lesley Gray |
Oxford |
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14/02/2017 |
Dr. Ed Cohen |
Imperial |
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21/02/2017 |
Dr. Fiona O' Connor |
Met Office |
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28/02/2017 |
Prof. Ranjeet Sokhi |
University of Hertfordshire |
Quantifying air quality on multiple scales - interactions, impacts and implications |
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07/03/2017 |
Dr. Matthew Palmer |
Met Office |
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14/03/2017 |
Dr. Xiaoming Zhai |
UEA |
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21/03/2017 |
Dr. Mark Parrington |
ECMWF |
Summer Term
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Date |
Speaker |
Institute |
Title |
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02/05/2017 |
Dr. Laura Wilcox |
Reading |
The role of anthropogenic aerosol in global and regional change |
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09/05/2017 |
Dr. David Sexton |
Met Office |
Using perturbed parameter ensembles for projections and model development |
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16/05/2017 |
Dr. Mingxi Liang |
PML |
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23/05/2017 |
Prof. Ray Pierrehumbert |
Oxford |
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30/05/2017 |
Dr. Helen Czerski |
UCL |
The bubbles underneath breaking waves and their contribution to air-sea gas transfer mechanisms |
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06/06/2017 |
Dr. Michael Vellinga |
Met Office |
Modelling tropical variability: recent advances and remaining challenges |
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13/06/2017 |
Dr. Hugo Lambert |
Exeter |
Land-ocean shifts in tropical precipitation under climate change |
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20/06/2017 |
Dr. Juliane Schwendike |
Leeds |
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27/06/2017 |
Prof. Graeme Stephens |
JPL / Caltech |
The curious nature of the hemispheric symmetry of the Earth’s water and energy balances |
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03/07/2017 (Note: day change) |
Dr. Yi Ming |
NOAA / GFDL and Princeton |
2015-2016
| Date | Speaker | Title |
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| 8th October | Andreas Klocker, University of Tasmania |
Wave-turbulence-mean flow interaction in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current |
| 13th October | Erik Van Sebille, Imperial College London | Chasing water: Using Lagrangian particles to track water, heat, plankton and plastic through the global ocean |
| 20th October | Simon Josey, NOC Southampton | From One Extreme to Another : Air-Sea interaction in the North Atlantic and Southern Oceans |
| 27th October | Paulo Ceppi, University of Washington | Cloud feedbacks and their impacts on atmospheric circulation |
| 3rd November | - | - |
| 10th November | Thomas Spengler, University of Bergen | Maintenance of Storm Tracks and Baroclinicity |
| 17th November | Alan Plumb, MIT | Dynamical Climate Perturbations, Annular Modes, and the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem |
| 24th November | Len Shaffrey, Unversity of Reading | Climate change and North Atlantic storms |
| 2nd December | Rhys Parfitt, Imperial College London | The interaction between atmospheric and oceanic fronts – the junction between weather and climate |
| 8th December | Daniel Whitt, University of Cambridge | Near-inertial waves in strongly baroclinic currents: theory and oceanic applications |
| 15th December | Benjamin Bronselaer, University of Oxford | Climate-carbon feedbacks: relative impact of warming patternson ocean carbon and heat storage |
Spring Term
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 12th January | Moved to March 15th | - |
| 19th January | Robin Hogen, ECMWF | What is the impact of 3D cloud radiative effects on weather and climate? |
| 26th January | Amos Lawless, University of Reading | Data assimilation for coupled systems in environmental prediction |
| 2nd February | Anna Augusta-Panareda, ECMWF | Overview of modelling and data assimilation of long-lived greenhouse gases within the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service at ECMWF |
| 9th February | Ric Williams, University of Liverpool | Why is global warming nearly linearly dependent on how much carbon we emit? |
| 16th February | Mike Fisher, ECMWF | Time-parallel algorithms for variational data assimilation |
| 23rd February | Lenka Novak, Unversity of Reading | Predator-Prey Behaviour of Storm Tracks |
| 1st March | Baylor Fox-Kemper, Brown University | Effects of ocean surface gravity waves: on turbulence, climate, and frontogenesis |
| 8th March | Remi Tailleux, University of Reading | A new framework for identifying sources and sinks of available potential energy in tropical cyclones |
| 15th March | Laure Zanna, University of Oxford | Suppression of AMOC variability at increased CO2 |
| 22nd March | Helene Hewitt, MetOffice | From parameterising to resolving: the role of eddies and resolution in coupled models |
Summer Term
| Date | Speaker | Title |
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| 26th April | Camille Li, University of Bergen |
Probing causality in Arctic-midlatitude linkages |
| 3rd May | Ben Booth, MetOffice | Beyond Global Warming: What drove past regional climate change? |
| 10th May | David Marshall, University of Oxford | Adrian Gill’s model of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Revisited |
| 17th May | Robert Marsh, University of Southampton |
Intermediate complexity climate modelling and the pole-to-pole ocean circulation |
| 24th May | Malcolm Roberts, MetOffice | Using high resolution global modelling for improved understanding of climate processes and implications |
| 31st May | Andrew Meijers, British Antarctic Survey | The Ocean at the Centre of the Earth: Trends and variability in the Southern Ocean |
| 7th June | Mark Webb, MetOffice | The impact of parametrized convection on cloud feedback |
| 14th June | James Maddison, University of Edinburgh | What shape are ocean eddies? |
| 21st June | Caroline Muller, CNRS |
Physical processes leading to the organization of convection |
| 12th July | Peter van Leeuwen, University of Reading | Nonlinear data assimilation, really? Without localisation? |
2014-2015
| Date | Speaker | Title |
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| 7th October | No seminar | |
| 14th October | No seminar | |
| 21st October | No seminar | |
| 28th October | Chris Brierley, UCL | Tropical Cyclones and Past Climate |
| 4th November | Andrew Friend, Cambridge | |
| 11th November | Sybren Drijfhout, Southampton | Is the AMOC the main source of uncertainty in regional climate change projections for the UK? |
| 18th November | Jeremy Grist, NOC | Air-sea fluxes and the Atlantic Overturning Circulation |
| 25th November | Gerd Folberth, Met Office | Plants and the Atmosphere – A Tale of Two Environments Tightly Entangled |
| 2nd December | No seminar | |
| 9th December | No seminar | |
| 16th December | Mat Disney, UCL |
Spring Term
| Date | Speaker | Title |
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| 13th January | Dominick Spracklen, Leeds | Interactions between land cover change, atmospheric composition and climate |
| 20th January | No seminar | |
| 27th January | Matt Rigby, Bristol | |
| 3rd February | Pavel Berloff, Imperial | Dynamically Consistent Parameterization of Mesoscale Eddies |
| 10th February | No seminar | |
| 17th February | Richard Betts, Exeter | |
| 24th February | Tamaryn Napp, Imperial | |
| 3rd March | Andrew Turner, Reading | |
| 10th March | Dan Hodson, Reading / NCAS-Climate | Atlantic Multidecadal Variability: Consequences, Causes and Prediction? |
| 17th March | Dan Jones, British Antarctic Survey (BAS) | How does Southern Ocean mode water ventilate the subtropics? |
| 24th March | David Schultz, Manchester |
Summer Term
| Date | Speaker | Title |
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| 28th April | Massimo Bollasina, Edinburgh |
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| 5th May | Aurelie Duchez, Southampton | Impact of the AMOC on Atlantic SSTs and European weather extremes |
| 12th May | David Munday, BAS / Oxford | |
| 19th May | No seminar | |
| 26th May | Michaela Hegglin, Reading | Past stratospheric water vapour changes and implications for the stratospheric circulation |
| 2nd June | Richard Allan, Reading | The global water cycle, with a focus on earth observation data of clouds, water vapour, rainfall and radiative energy balance |
| 9th June | Christopher O'Reilly, Hokkaido University | The influence of the Gulf Stream SST profile on winter Euro-Atlantic circulation |
| 12th June | Rachel White, University of Washington | Mountain geometry and the Pacific jet stream: Mongolian Matters! |
| 16th June | Philip Stier, Oxford | Observational constraints on global aerosol cloud interactions |
| 23rd June | Stephen Arnold, Leeds | Sources and impacts of tropospheric ozone pollution at high latitudes |
| 14th July |
Xuerong Qin and Paulina Cetina Heredia University of New South Wales, Australia |
Sources of water masses and iron feeding the Equatorial Undercurrent |
| 21st July |
Kate Marvel, NASA Goddard and Columbia |
Implications for climate sensitivity from the response to individual forcings |
2013-2014
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 23rd September | Jamie Banks, Imperial College London |
Satellite dust retrievals over the Sahara during teh Fennec campaign in June 2011 |
| 24th September | David Thompson, Colorado State University | Understanding large-scale climate variability in the Southern Hemisphere |
| 8th October | Dai Yamazaki, Bristol | Physically-based modelling of large-scale flooding in continental-scale rivers |
| 15th October | Benoit Vanniere, Imperial College London | Analysing coupled model biases using the adjustment of initialised simulations: application to the tropical Pacific |
| 22nd October | Ian Boutle, Reading | Why does it always rain on me? Observations and modelling of stratocumulus clouds |
| 29th October | Richard Chandler, UCL | Expoiting strength, discounting weakness: combining information from multiple climate simulators |
| 5th November | Flora MacTavish, Grantham Institute for Climate Change | The IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report |
| 6th November | Xu Liu, NASA | Radiative transfer model and retrieval algorithm development for hyperspectral satellite remote sensors |
| 12th November | Mark Saunders, UCL | Weather and cliamte extremes research at MSSL/UCL |
| 19th November | William Ingram, Oxford | Why does CO2 radiative forcing depend logarithmically on CO2 concentration? |
| 29th November | Laura Wilcox, Reading | The influence of anthropogenic aerosol on multi-decadal variations of historical global and regional climate |
| 3rd December | Jim Haywood, Met Office | Atmospehric aerosols and their climatic impact |
| 10th December | Paul Young, Lancaster | Tropospheric zone 1850-2100: Many models, many answers? |
Spring Term
| Date | Speaker | Title |
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| 28th January | Ian Ashpole, Oxford | |
| 4th February | Adam Levy, Oxford | Rain, brains and climate change: improving understanding of regional precipitation with medical registration techniques |
| 11th February | Cancelled | |
| 18th February | Alison Ming, Cambridge | The annual cycle in tropical lower stratospheric temperature: idealised model studies |
| 25th February | Magdalena Balmaseda, ECMWF | Role of the ocean in teh recent hiatus in surface warming. An insight from an ocean reanalysis |
| 4th March | Cancelled | |
| 11th March | Buwen Dong, Reading | Variability of the North Atlantic summer storm track: mechansisms and impacts on European climate |
| 18th March | Roberto Buizza, ECMWF | ECMWF coupled ocean-atmosphere extended range prediction |
| 25th March | Piers Forster, Leeds | How geoengineering might work in practice |
Summer Term
| Date | Speaker | Title |
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| 29th April | David Jackson, Met Office |
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| 6th May | Christian Buckingham | |
| 13th May | Danny Feltham, Reading | Next generation of sea ice models: new physics describing sea ice mechanics and melt |
| 20th May | Rob Ewers, Imperial |
Linkages between the physical environment and ecological processes in tropical rain forests |
| 27th May | Andrew Suggit, Exeter | |
| 3rd June | David Brayshaw, Reading | |
| 10th June | Florian Pappenberger, ECMWF | |
| 17th June | Alex Archibald, Cambridge | Uncertainty in predictions of surface O3: the role of chemical mechanisms |
| 24th June | Martin Wooster, King's College London |
2012-2013
| Date | Speaker | Title |
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| 2nd October | Sue Gray, Reading |
Diabatic influences on extratropical cyclones |
| 9th October | Xiaoming Zhai, UEA | From wind power to ocean eddy graveyard |
| 16th October | Kerstin Schepanksi, Leeds | Satellite-based observations of Saharan dust source areas |
| 23rd October | Tom Smith, KCL | Smoke and mirrors: Infrared spectroscopty and radiometry for the study of biomass burning emissions |
| 30th October | Chris Brierley, UCL | Structural climate change |
| 13th November | Claire Ryder, Reading | Saharan dust: size matters |
| 20th November | Caroline Bains, Met Office | Influences on convection over West Africa |
| 27th November | Chris Wilson, NOCL | Southern Ocean adjustment in an eddying regime |
| 4th December | Nick Schutgens, Oxford | Parametric and structural uncertainties in global aerosol modelling |
| 11th December | Will Ball, Imperial | Solar variability and the effect on stratospheric ozone |
| 12th December | Mark Baldwin, Exeter | Why does stratospheric variability affect surface weather and climate? |
Spring Term
| Date | Speaker | Title |
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| 15th January | Lucy Bricheno, NOCL | What effect does high model resolution have on winds, and therefore the ocean? |
| 22nd January | Harry Leach, Liverpool | Watermass modification by mixing in the Weddell Gyre |
| 19th February | Sue Grimmond, KCL | The importance of vegetation on urban surface-atmosphere exchanges: ecidence from measurements and modelling |
| 26th February | Marcus Koehler, KCL | Regional growth in aircraft emissions: impacts of NOx on atmospheric chemistry and associated climate forcings |
| 5th March | Paul Williams, Reading | Clear-air turbulence: will flights get bumpier because of climate change? |
| 12th March | Bill Collins, Reading | Near-term climate mitigation |
| 19th March | Sarah Moller, Leeds | Smoke Detectors - chasing forest fires in North America |
Summer Term
| Date | Speaker | Title |
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| 23rd April | Shaun Lovejoy, McGill |
Emergent atmospheric laws: why the weather and the cliamte are not what you expect |
| 30th April | Dave Topping, Manchester | New models to revisit the relationship between atmospheric aerosol size, composition and mass partitioning between multiple phases |
| 7th May | John Taylor, Cambridge | Turbulence, submesoscales, and phytoplankton blooms at ocean fronts |
| 14th May | Joe Kidston, Sydney |
The relationship between the speed and the latitude of the eddy-driven jet; implications for climate change and stratosphere-troposphere coupling |
| 28th May | Ralph Beeby, Kings | |
| 4th June | Oyvind Breivik, ECMWF | The impact of sea state on the ocean mixed layer - experiments with a coupled atmosphere-wave-ocean model |
| 11th June | Ignacio Pisso, Oslo | Lagrangian particle dispersion modelling and source flux estimates of atmospheric tracers |
| 18th June | Robert Plant, Reading | Numerical modelling of convective clouds. How real is "realistic-looking"? |
2011-2012
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 4th October | Professor Sir Brian Hoskins, Grantham Institute | "Predictability beyond the deterministic limit" |
| 11th October | Dr. Simon Dadson, University of Oxford | "Landscape response to a changing climate" |
| 18th October | Dr. Alexandra Weiss, BAS | "Atmospheric process studies in Antarctica" |
| 25th October | Professor Hans Graf, University of Cambridge | "El Nino, Siberian Snow, the Polar Vortex and cold winters" |
| 28th October | Dr. Stephen Leroy, Harvard **3pm** | "Inferring Climate Change and Radio Occultation" |
| 1st November | Dr. Tim J. Woollings, University of Reading | "Ocean-atmosphere interaction in the Atlantic storm track response to climate change" |
| 8th November | ||
| 15th November | Dr. Fred Prata, Norwegian Institute for Air Research **11am** | "Grounded in Europe – The Science Behind the 2010 Volcanic Ash Crisis" |
| 22nd November | Dr. Jean-Baptiste Sallee, BAS | "Mean flow and topography control on surface eddy mixing and water-mass subduction in the Southern Ocean" |
| 29th November | Dr. Stuart Newman, Met Office | "Airborne and satellite observations of volcanic ash from the Eyjafjallajökull eruption" |
| 2nd December | Dr. Michaela Hegglin, University of Toronto **11am** | "Towards a one-atmosphere view of chemistry-climate coupling" |
| 2nd December | Dr. Apostolos Voulgarakis **11:30am** | "Atmospheric composition and climate" |
| 6th December | Dr. Richard P. Allan, University of Reading | "Current and future changes in the global water cycle" |
| 13th December | Professor Rowan Sutton, University of Reading | "Causes of the rapid warming of the North Atlantic Ocean in the mid 1990s and time of emergence of climate signals" |
| 10th January | Dr. K. Giles, CPOM | "Observing the Arctic sea ice cover and ocean from space: Recent changes from Envisat and the current status of CryoSat-2" |
| 17th January | Dr. Nicola Howe, ESSC Reading | "Decadal prediction of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: how little do we need to know?" |
| 24th January | Dr. Miguel Angel M. Maqueda, National Oceanography Centre | "The dynamics of wind-driven polynyas" |
| 31st January | Professor Carl Wunsch, MIT/Oxford | "Predicting the Ocean Circulation" |
| 10th February | Dr. Felix Ng, University of Sheffield **12:00pm** | "Wave structures in the firn of polar ice sheets" |
| 17th February | Dr. Richard Reynolds, U.S. Geological Survey **12:00** p.m. Room 741B | "Iron oxide minerals in atmospheric dust and dust-source sediments—studies of types and properties to assess environmental effects" |
| 21st February | Dr. Ed Hawkins, University of Reading | "Uncertainty in climate projections: from what to when" |
| 28th February | Dr. Paul Holland, BAS | "Ocean and ice processes in the Antarctic shelf seas" |
| 6th March | Dr. Julie Jones, University of Sheffield | "'Twentieth century behaviour of the Southern Annular Mode" |
| 9th March | Professor Georgiy Stenchikov, KAUST **11am** | "Quantifying regional climate sensitivity to radiative forcing in the Middle East and North Africa" |
| 13th March | Dr. Adrian Hill, Met Office | "Investigating aerosol-cloud interactions - a reductionist approach" |
| 20th March | Dr. Helen Dacre, University of Reading | "A New Method for Evaluating Regional Air Quality Forecasts" |
| 1st May | Professor Robin Hogan, University of Reading | "Clouds and their turbulent environment" |
| 8th May | Dr. Brian Kerridge, RAL | "PREMIER: ESA’s Earth Explorer 7 Candidate Mission to Sound Atmospheric Composition" |
| 15th May | Professor Karen Heywood, University of East Anglia | "Ocean processes at the Antarctic continental slope" |
| 22nd May | Dr. Samantha Smith, Met Office | "'Sensitivity of orographic rain enhancement to horizontal resolution in the operational Met Office weather forecasting model'" |
| 29th May | Professor Eleanor Highwood, University of Reading | "Atmospheric aerosols: from composition to climate" |
| 5th June | BANK HOLIDAY | |
| 12th June | Dr. Nigel Fox, NPL | "'SI traceable measurements from space: An essential tool for climate'" |
| 19th June | Professor Gabriele Hegerl, University of Edinburgh **12:30pm** | "Causes and implications of climate change over the last millennium" |
| 20th June | Dr. Peter Miller, Plymouth Marine Laboratory **12:00 noon** | "Satellite ocean front maps reveal dynamic surface currents: a new approach for model validation” |
| 26th June | Dr. K. Horsburgh, National Oceanography Centre | POSTPONED |
| 28th June | Dr. C. Morcrette & Dr. D. Smith, Met Office **11am** | "Decadal climate prediction and evaluation of cloud parametrization schemes" |
2010-2011
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 12th October | Dr. Maarten Ambaum, University of Reading. | "The Climate Entropy and Energy Budgets" |
| 2nd November | Dr. Remi Tailleux, University of Reading. | "Energetics of the ocean and the driving mechanisms of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation" |
| 11th November (Thursday) | Dr. Peter Knippertz, University of Leeds. | "Towards an Improved Representation of Meteorological Processes in Models of Mineral Dust Emission" |
| 16th November | Dr. Len Shaffrey, University of Reading. | "High-resolution coupled climate modelling" |
| 23rd November | Dr. Simon Buckle, Grantham Institute for Climate Change. | |
| 30th November | Dr. Charlie Williams, University of Reading. | *Postponed |
| 7th December | Dr. Ruth Doherty, University of Edinburgh. | *Postponed |
| 25th January | Dr. Franco Molteni, European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts. | |
| 22nd February | Dr. Charlie Williams, University of Reading. | *Cancelled |
| 1st March | Dr. Laure Zanna, University of Oxford. | *Cancelled |
| 8th March | Dr. Ruth Doherty, University of Edinburgh. | |
| 15th March | Dr. Loic Jullion, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. | |
| 18th March | Dr. Rob Bryant, University of Sheffield. | |
| 22nd March | Dr. Shane Elipot, Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, Liverpool. | |
| 14th April | Dr. Tieh Yong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. | "Diurnal cycles in the maritime continent: propagating waves and standing-wave cavities" |
| 10th May | Dr. Laure Zanna, University of Oxford. | "Low-Frequency Variability and Forecast Skill of Observed Atlantic Sea Surface Temperatures" |
| 17th May | Dr. Ric Williams, The University of Liverpool. | "Climate variability in the ocean: North Atlantic heat storage and overturning" |
| 24th May (Noon) | Dr. Jennifer Brown, Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, Liverpool. | "Coupled tide-surge-wave modelling in extreme storm conditions" |
| 14th June (11:30am) | Dr. Alessio Bozzo, University of Edinburgh. | |
| 14st June (2pm) | Dr. Patrick Taylor, NASA Langley Research Centre | |
2006-2010
| 29-Jun-10 | Eleanor Frajka-Williams | In situ observations of vertical velocity in a stratified eddy during deep ocean convection |
| 22-Jun-10 | Yvonne Hinssen | Variability of the winter stratosphere: the sudden stratospheric warming of 2009 |
| 08-Jun-10 | John Marsham | Conclusions from the UK Convective Storm Initiation project (CSIP) |
| 01-Jun-10 | Giles Harrison | Solar-influenced atmospheric electricity changes and observations of clouds |
| 25-May-10 | Michael Herzog | Using results from an LES-type model to improve the representation of convective clouds in climate models |
| 18-May-10 | Manoj Joshi | Climate models and Earth system models: what the differences are and why they're important |
| 04-May-10 | Olivier Boucher | Aerosol modelling: from climate to numerical weather prediction |
| 16-Mar-10 | Agatha de Boer | Oceanic CO2 uptake during the last glacial period |
| 09-Mar-10 | Jonathan Gregory | Energetic analysis of simulated time-dependent changes in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in response to increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration |
| 23-Feb-10 | Philip Brown | Cloud Physics Research at the Met Office |
| 16-Feb-10 | Alexandre Gagon | tba |
| 09-Feb-10 | Ian Renfrew | Atmospheric forcing of the sub-polar seas around Greenland |
| 02-Feb-10 | Adrian Matthews | Primary and successive events in the Madden-Julian Oscillation |
| 26-Jan-10 | Alex Megann | New Insights into Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Modelling with the CHIME Model |
| 19-Jan-10 | David Stevens | High-resolution climate modelling and prediction |
| 08-Dec-09 | Philip Stier | tba |
| 03-Dec-09 | Georgiy Stenchikov | Long-term Climate Response to Short-term Volcanic Forcing |
| 01-Dec-09 | Chris Hughes | Jets, eddies, waves and meanders from sea level measurements |
| 24-Nov-09 | Alexey Karpechko | Southern hemisphere circulation in an era of ozone recovery |
| 17-Nov-09 | Alice Bows | Climate change & carbon budgets: the contribution of international transport emissions. |
| 10-Nov-09 | Elizabeth Kendon | Understanding extreme rainfall processes and the reliability of future predictions |
| 03-Nov-09 | John King | Recent climate change in the Antarctic Penisula: The role of orographic effects |
| 27-Oct-09 | Nicholas Klingaman | The role of atmosphere-ocean coupled processes in the intra- seasonal oscillation of the Indian summer monsoon |
| 20-Oct-09 | Alberto Naveira Garabato | Eddy-induced mixing in the Southern Ocean |
| 13-Oct-09 | Ned Ekins-Daukes | Atmospheric Cons iderations When Attempting to Estimate the Energy Yield from Photovoltaic Solar Concentrator Systems |
| 18-Sep-09 | Helen Worden | Instantaneous radiative kernels for tropospheric ozone: Satellite observations and model evaluation |
| 08-Jul-08 | Adrian Tuck | How molecular dynamics lead to atmospheric scale invariance |
| (Visiting Professor to SPAT) | ||
| 27-Jun-08 | Stephanie Waterman | Eddy-Mean Flow Interactions in Western Boundary Current Jets: An observation-driven theoretical study |
| (MIT/WHOI joint program) | ||
| 24-Jun-08 | Matthew Collins | Predicting climate change: ensembles, uncertainties and probabilities |
| (Met Office) | ||
| 17-Jun-08 | Helen Hanlon | Attribution of changes in extreme weather risk: a study of the European Summer 2003 heatwave |
| (Oxford) | ||
| 12 June 2008, Wednesday 14:30 | Matt Rigby | Renewed global growth of atmospheric methane |
| (MIT) | ||
| 10 June 2008, Thursday 14:30 | Gabi Hegerl | Towards detecting and attributing impact relevant climate change |
| (Edinburgh) | ||
| 03-Jun-08 | Don Grainger | Remote Sensing Aerosol: An Unconstrained Folly? |
| (Oxford) | ||
| 27-May-08 | Andrew Thompson | Jets, vortices and eddy fluxes in baroclinic turbulence |
| (Cambridge) | ||
| 20-May-08 | Rodrigo Caballero | Extratropical control of Hadley Cell strength in observations and global climate models |
| (University College Dublin) | ||
| 13-May-08 | Sarah Ineson | ENSO and european climate - the role of the stratosphere |
| (Met Office) | ||
| 07-May-08 | Alberto Troccoli | Towards a Seamless Weather/Climate Information System for Climate Risk Management |
| (ex-ECMWF) | ||
| 06-May-08 | Jenny Griggs | Assessment of cloud cover characteristics in satellite datasets and reanalysis products for Greenland |
| (Bristol) | ||
| 01-May-08 | Antje Weisheimer | Uncertainty and reliability of multi-model climate predictions |
| (ECMWF) | ||
| 30-Apr-08 | Martin Juckes | Tropopause dynamics and baroclinic closure |
| Thursday 11.30 | (Rutherford Appleton Lab) | |
| 29-Apr-08 | Simon Osborne | The physical and optical properties of mineral dust and b iomass-burning aerosol during AMMA-SOP0 |
| (Met Office) | ||
| 22-Apr-08 | Roger Kingdon | Turbulent Rankine Vortices |
| 18-Mar-08 | Greg Smith | Using ocean reanalysis to detect climate signals |
| (Reading) | ||
| 11-Mar-08 | Gaby Radel | Persistent contrails, their radiative impact and its dependence on cruise altitude |
| (Reading) | ||
| 26-Feb-08 | Jonathan Bamber | The rapid response of the present-day ice sheets to external forcing |
| (Bristol) | ||
| 19-Feb-08 | Elisa Carboni | Aerosol remote sensing from visible and infrared satellite measurements |
| (Oxford) | ||
| 15-Jan-08 | Giovanna Tinetti | Observing extrasolar worlds: from gas giants to terrestrial planets |
| (UCL) | ||
| 11-Dec-07 | Ed Hawkins | Variability and predictability of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation |
| (Reading) | ||
| 04-Dec-07 | Matthew Piggot | Recent progress in the development of the adaptive mesh ocean model ICOM |
| (Imperial College) | ||
| 27-Nov-07 | Sanjeev Gupta | Catastrophic flooding origin of 'island' Britain - (and some implications for the surface of Mars!) |
| (Imperial College) | ||
| 20-Nov-07 | Lynette Clapp and Andrea Fraser (Imperial College Silwood) | Investigation of oxidant sources and trends in the UK |
| Simulation of London air quality June 2006 | ||
| 13-Nov-07 | Richard Allan (Reading) | Precipitation trends and changes in the tropical hydrological cycle |
| 06-Nov-07 | Francis Pope (Cambridge) | The ultraviolet absorption spectrum of chlorine peroxide (ClOOCl) and implications for ozone chemistry |
| 23-Oct-07 | Jonathon Tennyson (UCL) | Calculating the Spectrum of Water |
| 16-Oct-07 | Heike Langenberg (Nature) | How Nature Geoscience works |
| 09-Oct-07 | Dudley Chelton (COAS) | Satellite Altimeter Observations of Global Westward Energy Propagation |
| 12/06/2007 | Tim Woollings (University of Reading) | What is the North Atlantic Oscillation? |
| 05/06/2007 | Conny Schwierz (University of Leeds) | TBC |
| 29/05/2007 | Anu Dhudia (University of Oxford) | The MIPAS Instrument on Envisat |
| 22/05/2007 | Janet Barlow (University of Reading) | The DAPPLE Proj ect: Dispersion Experiments in Central London |
| 08/05/2007 | Helen Johnson (University of Reading) | Reconciling Theories of a Mechanically-driven Meridional Overturning Circulation with Thermohaline Forcing and Multiple Equilibria |
| 24/04/2007 | Claude Frankignoul (Paris) | Simulated Variability of the North Atlantic Circulation 1953 to 2003 |
| 20/03/2007 | Hiro Yamazaki (AOPP, University of Oxford) | Ensemble modeling of the climate change over the last millennium using volunteer computers over the internet |
| 13/03/2007 | Dennis Wheeler (University of Sunderland) | Ships' logbooks, documents and the Millenium Project |
| 06/03/2007 | Sue Grimmond (King's College) | Challenges in Measuring Urban Fluxes of Carbon Dioxide and Water |
| 27/02/2007 | Robin Smith (University of Reading) | Factors limiting the anthropogenic carbon uptake to the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation |
| 20/02/2007 | Bruce Anderson (Boston University) | Influences of anthropogenic and oceanic forcing on top-of-atmosphere radiative fluxes and tropospheric temperatures |
| 21/12/2006 | John Burrows (University of Bremen) | Remote Sensing of Trace Atmospheric Constituents using GOME and SCIAMACHY |
| 05/12/2006 | Mar k Baldwin (Northwest Research Associates, USA) | Stratosphere - Troposphere Coupling and Climate Change |
| 20/06/2006 | Dr Mark Rodwell (ECMWF) | The use of NWP to assess climate models |
| 13/06/2006 | Dr Mike Molyneux (Met Office) | Practical Meteorological Measurements |
| 23/05/2006 | Dr Paul Williams (University of Reading) | The role of unresolved processes in climate modelling |
| 16/05/2006 | Dr Jonathan Gregory (University of Reading) | Radiative forcing and climate sensitivity |
| 09/05/2006 | Prof Raymond Hide (Imperial College) | Atmospheric Super-rotation and changes in the Earth's Rotation |
| 25/04/2006 | Dr Simon Retallack (Institute for Public Policy Research) | Climate Change |