Category Archives: Seminar

Mechanism sustaining carbon/ climate feedbacks under 21st century climate change investigated using GFDL’s Earth System Model ESM2M Dr. Keith Rodgers, Princeton University

Dynamics-Oriented Diagnostics for the Madden–Julian Oscillation Dr. Sun-Seon Lee, IBS Center for Climate Physics Realistic simulations of the Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO) by global climate models (GCMs) remain a great challenge. […]

Dr. Francois Primeau, UC Irvine October 2, 2018: Dynamical and kinematical constraints on the climatological ocean circulation, geostrophy, Ekman, tracer continuity, mixed layers October 4, 2018: Steady and transient tracers […]

Is La Nina coming?

Drift correction of decadal experiments Phase Five of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) includes a new set of experiments, called the ‘decadal’ or ‘near-term’ predictions, to bridge the gap […]

Ocean-atmosphere energy and momentum fluxes

On the mutual interaction between atmosphere and ice over the last glacial cycle Dr. Marcus Loefverstroem, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA The last glacial cycle (ca. 115-12 ka) was […]

Basic Dynamics for Tropical Atmosphere and Ocean Prof. Fei-Fei Jin, University of Hawaiʻi

Satellite observations of convection–wind coupling Dr. Thomas Kilpatrick, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Satellite scatterometers measure surface winds over the global oceans, but these observations have historically been limited by rain-related […]

ENSO Theory – Part I Prof. Fei-Fei Jin, University of Hawaiʻi