Category Archives: Seminar

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

Aerosol-induced interhemispheric asymmetry in climate change Dr. Eui-Seok Chung, University of Miami

Dynamics of the Leeuwin Current System The coastal circulation off Western Australia differs from most other eastern boundary current systems in that its main current, the Leeuwin Current (LC) is […]

Modeling and understanding of Quaternary glacial cycles Dr. Andrey Ganopolski, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany It is now generally accepted that, as postulated by the Milankovitch theory, […]