Welcome!

Please join us for the ATOC Colloquium, every other Friday in SEEC S228 (Sievers Conference Room). Come early for coffee starting at 10:45 AM, and lunch will be served after!

About the ATOC Colloquium

The Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Colloquium will be held every other Friday from 11:00 AM-noon. Come early for coffee starting at 10:45 AM, and stay after for discussions as lunch is provided on site.

Colloquia will alternate between the following two formats:

A. Full-length talk by a faculty member or invited speaker

B. Three conference-length talks by graduate students

If you would like to nominate a speaker (including yourself), please email the Chair of the ATOC Colloquium Committee, Prof. Jan Lenaerts.

Upcoming Schedule

Spring 2019

Date Format Room Speaker(s) Title & Abstract

01/25/2019

 A SEEC S228 (Sievers) Elizabeth Barnes (CSU) Causal pathways driving sub-seasonal jet-stream variability
02/08/2019 B SEEC S228 (Sievers) Nicola Bodini, Devon Dunmire, Jessica Tomaszewski

Towards a better understanding of turbulence dissipation rate (Bodini)

In situ and remote observations of a subsurface lake collapse in East Antarctica (Dunmire)

Quantifying wake impacts on downwind wind farms using the WRF Wind Farm Parameterization (Tomaszewski)
02/22/2019 A SEEC 372 A/B George Kiladis (NOAA) Skill and Impact of Tropical Variability in Two Operational  Weather Prediction Models
03/08/2019 A SEEC S228 (Sievers) Tristan L'Ecuyer (UW-Madison) PREFIRE: Filling a Startling Gap in Polar Climate Observation
03/22/2019 A SEEC S228 (Sievers) Karen Kosiba (CSWR)  43°N to 34°S: 77 degrees of weather
04/12/2019 B SEEC S228 (Sievers) Ren Smith, Kang Yang, Ryan Harp

The Role of Radiation in Tropical Cyclogenesis (Smith)

Northern Hemisphere Upper Troposphere “Dust Belt” from Improved CALIPSO Lidar Observations (Wang)

Projecting Future Temperature-Driven Changes in Crime (Harp)
04/26/2019 A SEEC S228 (Sievers) Brian O'Neill (University of Denver) TBD

 

Past colloquia

Fall 2018

Date Format Speaker(s) Title
09/07/2018 A* Cora Randall & Brian Toon (CU Boulder)

Clouds on the Edge of Space: Insight from the NASA Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) Mission (Randall)

The environmental impacts of nuclear war are far more damaging than the explosions and could kill 90% of the Earth's population (Toon)
09/21/2018 B Ariel Morrison, Jason West, Steffen Mauceri

Observed and Simulated Cloud Response to Arctic Sea Ice Loss from CALIPSO and CESM1 (Morrison)

The Role of Oceanic Processes in the Initiation of Indian Summer Monsoon Intraseasonal Oscillations over the Indian Ocean (West)

Aerosol Retrieval from Hyperspectral Imagery over India (Mauceri)
10/05/2018 A Nikki Lovenduski (CU Boulder)

A Change in the Forecast: Ocean Biogeochemistry over the Next Decade
10/19/2018 B Vineel Yettella, Bobby Wallace, Lynn Montgomery

An ensemble covariance framework for quantifying forced climate variability and its time of emergence (Yetella)

Hidden Water: Investigating a firn aquifer in Southeast Greenland (Montgomery)

Deep Hail Accumulations: How can we identify storms that produce the largest threat?  (Wallace)
11/02/2018 A Dan McGrath (CSU) How much is really out there? Forays into measuring snow accumulation on glaciers and implications for glacier mass balance

11/16/2018

(Room change: SEEL303)

 B Riley Brady, Guo Lin, Maaike Izeboud

On the role of climate modes in modulating the air-sea CO2 fluxes in Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems (Brady)

Interactions Between a Nocturnal MCS and the Stable Boundary Layer, as Observed by an Airborne Compact Raman Lidar During PECAN (Lin)

Response of Greenland Ice Sheet firn to cloud radiative forcing (Izeboud)
11/30/2018   ESSS Poster Conference TBD

* The inaugural colloquium was given by two faculty members.