AOS Colloquium

The CAOS Colloquium series consists of invited lectures by researchers in all sub-disciplines of atmosphere, ocean and climate science. Unless noted otherwise, all colloquia are held on Wednesdays, 3:30 - 4:30 pm in room 1302 of Warren Weaver Hall at 251 Mercer Street, New York. For more information, contact the organizer, Shafer Smith.

Archival data for CAOS Colloquia in previous semesters can be viewed here.

January 25
Leslie SMITH (U Wisconsin)
Tropical cyclogenesis and vertical shear in a moist Boussinesq model

February 8
Lyuba CHUMAKOVA (MIT)
Leaky rigid lid: New dissipative modes in the troposphere

February 15
Laure ZANNA (Oxford)
Linear Predictability of the North Atlantic Ocean

March 28
Patrice KLEIN (Ifremer)
Mesoscale and submesoscale turbulence in the ocean: Impacts of ageostrophic motions with large Rossby number

April 4
Nathan PALDOR (Hebrew U)
Laplace's Tidal Equations over a sphere: New solutions derived from an approximate Schrodinger equation

Friday, April 6, 3:30-4:30pm, in 1314
Jonathan LILLY (NWRA)
New methods for analyzing oscillatory structures in physical time series with application to observing the global oceanic vortex distribution

April 11
Justin MINDER (NCAR)
The dynamics of ascent-forced convection and orographic precipitation in the tropics: Results from the Dominica Experiment

Thursday, April 12, 11am-12:00pm, in 1314
Raffaele FERRARI (MIT)
What physics triggers phytoplankton blooms?

April 18
Yu ZHANG (GFDL/Princeton)
A mechanism of exchange between the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and the west Antarctic Peninsula

April 25
Elizabeth BARNES (Columbia U)
Influence of meridional constraints and eddy feedbacks on low-frequency variability and its response to climate change