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Tomer Burg – April 14

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Weather and Climate Systems Seminar   Tropopause Polar Vortex Linkages to the February 2021 U.S. Cold Air Outbreak Tomer Burg Wednesday, April 14th 2:30 pm Join Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/jdv-kpfr-gnu Tropopause Polar Vortices (TPVs) are coherent vortices along the tropopause, with cyclonic TPVs identified by a local minimum in temperature and local maximum in potential vorticity […]

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Anna Wanless – April 14

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Weather and Climate Systems Seminar   Examining Extreme Rainfall Forecast and Communication Processes in the South Central United States Anna Wanless Wednesday, April 14th 2:00 pm   Join Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/jdv-kpfr-gnu Extreme rainfall events have increased in parts of the country and climate models project that trend to continue. As such, forecasters must be able […]

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Tyler Bell – April 13

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Boundary Layer, Urban Meteorology, and Land-Surface Processes Toward optimizing ground-based thermodynamic retrievals with WxUAS Tyler Bell Tuesday, April 13 1:00pm Join Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/taw-hdgp-cfe As increased attention is being given to the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL), more instruments and techniques are becoming available to advance understanding of the processes that occur in this region of […]

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Morgan Schneider – April 9

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 Convective Meteorology (Mesoscale Dynamics)   Quantifying and Mitigating Debris-Induced Bias in Doppler Radar Measurements of Tornadic Winds Morgan Schneider Friday, April 9th 3:00pm   Join Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/ksh-txvg-kni Lofting and centrifuging of tornadic debris are known to cause bias in Doppler radar measurements of tornado wind speeds.  Debris presence within a resolution volume is consistently […]

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Addison Alford – April 8

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School of Meteorology Colloquium   Using ground-based fixed and mobile weather radars and numerical modeling to evaluate hurricane structure and dynamics at landfall Addison Alford Thursday, April 8th 11:00 am   Join Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/tbg-ozvi-wsv Hurricane observations during landfall in the United States have received relatively little attention in the research community compared to hurricanes […]

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Taylor Grace – April 7

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Weather and Climate Systems Seminar   An Applied Definition for Heat Waves across the Southern Great Plains      Taylor Grace Friday, April 7th 2:00pm Join Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/jdv-kpfr-gnu Heat waves are common to the Southern Great Plains (SGP), yet throughout the research community there are over 16 definitions used to quantify this extreme event. […]

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Alan Shapiro – April 6

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Boundary Layer, Urban Meteorology, and Land-Surface Processes Seminar   Emergence of a nocturnal low-level jet from a broad baroclinic zone Alan Shapiro Tuesday, April 6th 1:00pm   Join Google Meet: meet.google.com/taw-hdgp-cfe We consider a theory for the generation of a nocturnal low-level jet (NLLJ) within a broad (diffuse) baroclinic zone over flat terrain. The flow […]

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Martin Satrio – April 2

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Convective Meteorology (Mesoscale Dynamics) Seminar   A Preliminary Radar Investigation of the 17 May 2021 McCook / Farnam, NE Tornadic Supercell during TORUS   Martin Satrio Friday, April 2nd 3:30 pm Join Google Meet https://meet.google.com/ksh-txvg-kni While numerical simulations have highlighted the importance of the streamwise vorticity current (SVC) in modulating the low-level mesocyclone in supercells, […]

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Emily Lenhardt – March 31

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Weather and Climate Systems Seminar Relationships between lidar aerosol extinction/backscatter coefficients and CCN number concentrations during the NASA ORACLES campaigns Emily Lenhardt Wednesday, March 31st 2:00 pm Join Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/jdv-kpfr-gnu Due to seasonal biomass burning and the presence of a semi-permanent stratocumulus deck off the western coast of Africa, the Southeast Atlantic (SEA) region […]

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Ben J. Davis – March 26

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Convective Meteorology (Mesoscale Dynamics) Seminar Frequent Assimilation of Enhanced AMVs Using Hybrid EnVar to Improve Hurricane Prediction   Ben J. Davis Friday, March 26th 3:30pm Join Google Meet https://meet.google.com/ksh-txvg-kni Novel high frequency, high resolution enhanced atmospheric motion vector (AMV) data is assimilated in Hurricane Irma (2017). The enhanced AMV data set has sub-hourly frequency, 6 […]

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