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.
Spring 2008
February 20
Nedjeljka ZAGAR (NCAR)
Dynamical aspects of tropical data assimilation
Monday, March 10, 1-2 pm, in 1314
Gualtiero BADIN (Liverpool U.)
The role of mechanical versus buoyancy forcing in
determining the residual circulation in the ocean
March 12
John MARSHALL (MIT)
GFD experiments in climate and paleoclimate: Speculations on the climate of an aquaplanet
March 26
Olivier PAULUIS (CAOS)
The global atmospheric circulation on moist isentropes
April 2
Robert HALLBERG (GFDL)
Representing stratified shear mixing in ocean models
April 16
Huei-Ping HUANG (Columbia/LDEO)
Adventures in eddy-permitting and eddy-resolving ocean model simulations
April 23
Sam STECHMANN (CIMS)
The role of wind shear in organized tropical convection
April 30
Caroline MULLER (CIMS)
Wave breaking above the abyssal sea-floor
May 7
Doron NOF (Florida State University)
Will Europe and Greenland cool or warm due to a slowing meridional
overturning cell?
