NEW YORK UNIVERSITYARTS AND SCIENCEGRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCE
CONTACT USSEARCHSITEMAP

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.

Fall 2009

September 23
Andrew WELLS (Yale U)
Going up? Meltwater flow under Antarctic ice shelves

September 30
Fuqing ZHANG (Penn State U)
Gravity waves from jets and vortex dipoles

October 14
Andrey GRITSUN (Russian Academy of Sciences)
Unstable periodic orbits in the models of the low frequency atmospheric variability

October 21
Andrew POJE (CUNY College of Staten Island)
Scale-dependent relative dispersion statistics in a hierarchy of ocean models

October 28
Jian LU (COLA)
On the position of the mid-latitude storm track and westerly winds in an idealized moist model

November 4
John TAYLOR (MIT)
Convection at oceanic fronts

November 11
William BOOS (Harvard U)
Poleward migrations of the Intertropical Convergence Zone in simple analytical and cloud resolving models

November 18
Chidong ZHANG (U Miami)
Vertical structures of tropical diabatic heating: Ubiquity of the leading modes and its dynamical implications

December 2
Boualem KHOUIDER (U Victoria)
Equatorial waves in vertical and meridional shear backgrounds

December 9
Patrick HEIMBACH (MIT)
Dynamically consistent state estimates of the coupled ocean/sea-ice system: the ECCO project