Atm Sci Spring 2006 Colloquium

Fridays, 3:30-4:30

75 Johnson Hall

 

Coordinator: Chris Bretherton (breth@atmos.washington.edu)

 

Mar 31    Vaughan Phillips, GFDL

               Aerosol-cloud interactions in deep convection

 

Apr 7      Philip Stier, Caltech

               Aerosols & Climate – The Role of Aerosol Microphysics

 

Apr 14    Kerry Emanuel, MIT

               Hurricanes and Climate

 

Apr 21    Dale Durran, UW Atm. Sci.

               Heating in a Stratified Fluid, with Applications to the Dynamics of Squall Lines and Subvisible Cirrus

 

Apr 28    Julian Sachs, Associate Professor, Chemical Oceanography (joint with PCC)

               Tropical Pacific hydrologic variations since the last ice age

 

May 5     David Keith, Professor, Univ. of Calgary  (Host: Steve Warren; joint with PCC)

               Top ten things to know about CO2 capture and storage

 

May 12   Todd Mitchell, JISAO

               Are El Nino episodes becoming more prevalent?

 

May 19   Jim Mather, PNNL

               Observations of clouds and radiation from TWP-ICE and the tropical ARM sites

.

May 26   Tom Ackerman/ UW Atm. Sci and PNL

               Observations of the properties and radiative impact of a major Saharan dust storm

 

              

Jun 2       Brian Magi, Graduate Student, Univ. of Washington (Ph. D. defence)