Weather and Climate Systems Seminar Information Content Analysis of Combined Lidar-Polarimeter Retrievals to Improve Aerosol Remote Sensing Accuracy David Nowicki Wednesday, March 24th 2:00 pm Join Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/jdv-kpfr-gnu Aerosols are small particles suspended in the atmosphere that affect global climate change by scattering and absorbing light. Additionally, the prevalence of some toxic aerosols […]
Convective Meteorology (Mesoscale Dynamics) Seminar Characterizing the occurrence and spatial heterogeneity of liquid, ice and mixed phase clouds over the Southern Ocean using in situ observations John D’Alessandro Friday, March 19th 3:00pm Join Google Meet https://meet.google.com/ksh-txvg-kni Low level clouds over the Southern Ocean are an essential component controlling the energy budget over the region, […]
Weather and Climate Systems Seminar Extending 4STAR Measurements and Retrievals from the 2016 ORACLES Campaign Logan Mitchell Wednesday, March 17th 2:00 pm Join Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/jdv-kpfr-gnu Aerosols play a complex role in Earth systems, cooling in certain contexts and warming in others, such that their radiative forcing remains a persistent climate modeling uncertainty. These […]
Convective Meteorology (Mesoscale Dynamics) Seminar Exploring Observational Tornado Debris Signature Hypotheses Using Radar Simulations and Large-Eddy Simulations Rachael Cross Friday, March 12th 3:00pm Join Google Meet https://meet.google.com/ksh-txvg-kni Tornadoes can loft various types and sizes of debris, sometimes resulting in a polarimetric radar signature called the TDS (Tornado Debris Signature). The presence of a TDS in the radar data […]
Weather and Climate Systems Seminar Global Analysis of Characteristics of Tropical Easterly Waves in MERRA-2 and Related Precipitation Margaret Hollis Wednesday, March 10th 2:00pm Join Google Meet: meet.google.com/asy-kyno-rxf Tropical easterly waves (TEWs) are important components of tropical convection and precipitation, and sometimes develop into tropical cyclones (TCs). African easterly waves (AEWs) […]
Convective Meteorology (Mesoscale Dynamics) Investigating GLM flash optical energy measurements with ABI and MRMS datasets Kevin Thiel Friday, February 26th 3:00 pm Join Google Meet https://meet.google.com/ksh-txvg-kni Abstract: Recent deployment of the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) on the GOES-R series of satellites provides a new perspective of convection that can be utilized by the severe storms […]
Weather and Climate Systems Seminar Classification and Quantification of Ice-phase Microphysics in Eastern United States Snowfall Events Using Ground and Satellite-borne Radar Retrievals Noah Brauer Wednesday, February 24th 2:00 pm Join Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/ohy-ncjo-nnp Four different snowfall events were analyzed by looking at retrievals from the GPM DPR, the WSR-88D ground radar network, and the […]
Convective Meteorology (Mesoscale Dynamics) Seminar Modeling CCN effects on Electrification within High and Low Precipitation Supercells Jessica Blair Friday, February 19th 3:00pm Join Google Meet https://meet.google.com/ksh-txvg-kni Cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) affect both the electric and dynamic evolution of storms, but the effects on storm electrification in different storm modes have not […]
Convective Meteorology (Mesoscale Dynamics) Seminar Preliminary Analysis of Hail Size Prediction using Deep Learning Models Amanda Burke Friday, February 12th 3:30pm Join Google Meet https://meet.google.com/ksh-txvg-kni Using Deep learning (DL) models to predict different atmospheric phenomena has rapidly grown in the past few years. The ability to learn both spatial and temporal data patterns, instead of distributions, highlights one reason why DL […]
Convective Meteorology (Mesoscale Dynamics) Seminar Cracking the TORFF Code: Testing a Neural Network Coding Scheme on Broadcaster Coverage of TORFF Events Sean Ernst Friday, February 12th 3:00pm Join Google Meet https://meet.google.com/ksh-txvg-kni Simultaneous Tornado and Flash Flood (TORFF) events are a difficult to message and potentially deadly hazardous weather threat that is common in the contiguous […]
