CGD Seminars are typically scheduled at 3:30 pm on Tuesday afternoons. Special times and dates are indicated on the schedule.

Date Speaker & Institution Seminar Title
09/01/2009
special time 2:00 pm
Reto Knutti, ETH Zurich Climate sensitivity, irreversibility and the two degree stabilization target
09/08/2009 Kathy Hibbard, NCAR The handshake between the integrated assessment and climate modeling communities: IPCC AR5 as a catalyst for improved networking, collaboration and communication
09/15/2009 Erich Fischer, NCAR Quantifying uncertainties in projections of climate extremes - a perturbed land surface parameter experiment
9/17/2009
special date
Curt Covey, PCMDI/LLNL The surface-pressure signature of atmospheric tides in modern climate models
09/22/2009 Brian Mapes, U of Miami Toward a unified shallow-deep convection scheme
9/28/2009
special date
Jon Petch , UK Met Office Clouds and radiation in the Met Office models
10/06/2009 Stephen E. Schwartz, Brookhaven National Laboratory Why Hasn't Earth Warmed as Much as Expected?
10/13/2009
special time 11:00 am
Michela Biasutti, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Global Climate Change and Sahel Rainfall
10/15/2009
special date
Somnath Baidya Roy, University of IL, Urbana-Champaign Mesoscale vegetation-atmosphere feedbacks in Amazonia
10/29/2009
special date & time, 11:00
Steve Klein, PCMDI, LLNL Investigating the diurnal cycle of convection over land using long-term observations at the ARM Oklahoma site
11/04/2009
special date
Long Cao, Carnegie Institution for Science Environmental consequences of increasing atmospheric CO2, beyond global warming
11/10/2009 Jeff Kiehl, NCAR Warm Worlds of Earth’s Deep Past: A View to Earth’s Future?
11/17/2009 Ben Sanderson, NCAR Observing Sensitivity: How imperfect models can help us measure unknown climate parameters
11/24/2009 Jennifer Kay, NCAR Rescheduled for 1/12/2010
12/01/2009 Aixue Hu, NCAR Feedback between Bering Strait and Ice Age Climate Stability
12/10/2009
special date & time, 11:00
Mariana Vertenstein, NCAR Rescheduled for 2/23/2010
12/22/2009 Kevin Trenberth, NCAR T.B.D.
12/29/2009    
01/05/2010 Mitch Moncrieff, NCAR Organized Precipitation Systems at the Intersection of Weather & Climate and the Year of Tropical Convection (YOTC)
01/12/2010 Jennifer Kay, NCAR The boundary layer response to sea ice loss and implications for high-latitude
climate feedbacks
01/29/2010
special date
Peter Thorne, UK Met Office Tropospheric temperatures: a tale of 10 years of personal misadventures
02/02/2010 Chris Fletcher, U. of Toronto T.B.D.
02/09/2010 Clara Deser, NCAR Future Climate Projections: Insights from the 40-member CCSM3 ensemble
02/19/2010
special date
Amy Clement , U of Miami Low Clouds and Climate Change
02/23/2010 Mariana Vertenstein, NCAR CCSM4 - A Flexible New Infrastructure for Earth System Modeling
03/02/2010    
03/09/2010 Andrew Gettelman (tentative), NCAR  
03/16/2010    
03/23/2010    
03/30/2010    
04/07/2010
special date
   
04/13/2010    
04/20/2010    
04/27/2010    
05/04/2010    
05/11/2010    
05/18/2010    
05/25/2010