Sean Spratley – April 21
Weather and Climate Systems Seminar Investigating the connections between Aerosol emissions and their effects on Severe Weather Events in the Southern Great Plains Sean Spratley Wednesday, April 21st 2:00 pm Join Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/jdv-kpfr-gnu Severe weather forecasting is important for mitigating risk to human life, but it is also very difficult and […]
Tomer Burg – April 14
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 […]
Anna Wanless – April 14
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 […]
Taylor Grace – April 7
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. […]
Emily Lenhardt – March 31
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 […]
David Nowicki – March 24
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 […]
Logan Mitchell – March 17
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 […]
Margaret Hollis – March 10
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) […]
Noah Brauer – February 24
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 […]
Qingyu Wang – December 2
Weather and Climate Systems Seminar Local Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) mixing evaluation with single-column WRF-VPRM Qingyu Wang Wednesday, December 2nd 3:00 pm Join Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/ssf-prpz-fqa Previous studies reveal column-averaged carbon dioxide (XCO2) simulations from the Vegetation Photosynthesis and Respiration Model (VPRM) coupled with WRF have regional mismatches compared to OCO-2 measurements in the contiguous US […]