ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS SEMINAR Spring 2008 ATM S 521
Mike Wallace, Coordinator Thursdays, 3:30–4:20, ATG 310C*
Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
April 3	Syun-Ichi Akasofu	Former Director of the Geophysical Institute and founding director of the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks	Topic: “Is the Earth still recovering from the ‘Little Ice Age:’ A possible cause of global warming”
April 10	John M. Wallace	Professor, Atmospheric Sciences, UW	“Low Frequency Atmospheric Variability: Order Amidst Chaos”
April 15 (Tue), 3:30, JHN 102	Sir Brian Hoskins	Professor of Meteorology, University of Reading	“Monsoons and Subtropical Anticyclones”
April 17		No seminar scheduled for this date.
April 24	Greg Hakim	Assoc. Professor, Atmospheric Sciences, UW	“Radiatively Driven Vortical Circulations”
May 1	Ka-Kit Tung	Professor and Chair of Applied Math, UW	“Controversies on the Sun’s Influence on Global Warming and Whether such an Influence is Already in the IPCC AR4 Model”
May 8 1:30	Bill Skamarock	Sr. Scientist, Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division, NCAR	“Atmospheric Solvers for a New Earth System Model (ESM)”
May 15	James Morison and Ignatius Rigor	Applied Physics Lab., UW	Round table discussion of predictions of this year’s Arctic sea ice minimum.
May 22	Ron Lindsay	Meteorologist, APL, UW	“Modeling Trends in Arctic Sea Ice”
May 29	Jérôme Patoux	Res. Asst. Prof., Atmospheric Sciences, UW	Topic: “Midlatitude cyclone tracks and surface fluxes over the Southern Ocean”
June 5	Celeste Johanson	Grad. Student, Atmospheric Sciences, UW	”Satellite Inferred Atmospheric Temperature Trends Since 1979 and an Analysis of Hadley Cell Widening in Observations and Models”
* Unless noted otherwise.
Revised: 5/21/08