National Weather Center Colloquia

The social and economic impacts of hurricanes in the U.S. in the last few years stressed the necessity to better understand the variability, predictability and risk of tropical cyclones. In this talk, I will discuss the current understanding of various aspects of tropical cyclones, from the ability of the current generation of models to make forecasts on sub-seasonal time-scales, to the estimates of hurricane risk in locations with very few occurrences in the historical record.

Abstract: A Geometric View of the Ins and Outs of Simulation-based Forecasting Leonard A Smith Centre for the Analysis of Time Series, LSE Pembroke College, Oxford. Since the 1950’s weather forecasting (on every timescale) has been challenged by the nonlinearity of our models and the limits of our computational power.

Using observations and models to understand the warming Arctic

Determining the effectiveness of satellite remote sensing products to quantify aerosol pollution in the semi-arid western U.S.

Transmitted light for understanding aerosol and clouds

Polarimetric Aerosol and Cloud Remote Sensing: from AirMSPI to MAIA

The changing flow of energy through the Earth’s Climate System

TBA