Lectures and Seminars

The Center has established a Distinguished Visiting Lecture series to bring the foremost experts in the field to visit COLA and describe recent work of interest. From time to time, other scientists have visited COLA to provide lectures or engage in collaborative discussions. A list of these visitors, in chronological order, follows.

Dr. S. Manabe, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton; Multiple Century Response of a Coupled Model to Gradual Increase of Atmospheric C02, November 22, 1993.
Dr. B. Buzbee, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder; Trends in Supercomputing Technology and Potential Benefits to Climate Modeling, November 30, 1993.
Mr. W. Ofuchi, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton; Dynamics of Climate Changes Induced by Large Changes in C02 Levels in an AGCM, January 25, 1994.
Dr. S. Allen, Institute of Hydrology, UK; Measurements of the Land Surface Energy Balance in the Sahel: A Resource for Climate Modellers, January 26, 1994.
Dr. K. Trenberth, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder; Heat Transports in the Atmosphere and Ocean, February 1, 1994.
Dr. P. da Silva Dias, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil; Applications of Influence Functions to Study Teleconnections and Model Drift, February 4, 1994.
Dr. T. Palmer, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, UK; Singular Vectors and the Predictability of Weather and Climate, March 23, 1994.
Dr. T. Palmer, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, UK; AMIP Monsoon Project, March 24, 1994.
Prof. G. North, Texas A & M University, College Station; Detecting Forced Climate Change, April 12, 1994.
Prof. C. Mechoso, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles; Coupled Atmosphere/Ocean GCMs: Design, Performance, and Computational Environment, April 15, 1994.
Mr. J. Abeles, Cray Research Inc., Calverton; Parallel Implementation of the Dynamic Core of an Atmospheric GCM, April 22, 1994.
Dr. G. Branstator, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder; Atmospheric Anomalies Forced by Tropical Heating, April 26, 1994.
Dr. D. DeWitt, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, Calverton; What Determines Regions of Tropical Precipitation?, April 28, 1994.
Dr. K. Miyakoda, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton; An Attempt at ENSO Forecasting, May 16, 1994.
Prof. Jinjun Ji, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Simulating the Annual Variations of Physical and Biophysical Process at the Surface with a Climate Vegetation Interactive Model, May 31, 1994.
Dr. A. Navarra, Istituto Methodologie Geofisiche Ambientale, Italy; On the Evolution of the Variance in the Barotropic Model, June 1, 1994.
Dr. Bardi Parthasarthy, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, India; Indian Monsoon Variability and Teleconnections, June 17, 1994.
Dr. Lennart Bengtsson, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany; Will Greenhouse Gas-Induced Warming Over the Next 50 Years Lead to Higher Frequencies and Greater Intensity of Hurricanes?, October 7, 1994.
Prof. Harshvardhan, Purdue University, W. Lafayette; The Interpretation of Remotely Sensed Cloud Properties from a Model Parameterization Perspective, October 25, 1994.
Dr. J. Zhou, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt; Geographical Impact of GWD Parameterization, November 21, 1994.
Mr. A. K. Bohra, NCMRWF, India; Physical Initialization in a NWP Model, December 14, 1994.
Dr. G. Golitsyn, Institute of Atmospheric Physics in Moscow; Caspian Sea Climate, December 15, 1994.
Dr. Mototaka Nakumura, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Blocking as a manifestation of quasi-stationary wave amplification, breaking, and dissipation, January 11, 1995.
Dr. Sydney Levitus, National Oceanographic Data Center (NOAA), Washington, D.C.; Interannual-to-decadal scale variability of the world ocean, February 24, 1995.
Prof. J. Michael Wallace, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington; Interpretation of the Recent Record of Northern Hemisphere Interdecadal Temperature Fluctuations, April 25, 1995.
Dr. Ruby Krishnamurti, Department of Meteorology, Florida State University; Turbulent Convection, May 5, 1995.
Dr. T.N. Krishnamurti, Department of Meteorology, Florida State University; Hurricane Forecasting with High Resolution Models at FSU, May 5, 1995.
Dr. M. Kanamitsu, National Meteorological Center; Analysis of Monsoon simulated by the NMC regional spectral model and Relation between soil wetness and large scale summer circulations, May 10, 1995.
Dr. Inez Fung, University of Victoria; Revisiting the Carbon Cycle, May 19, 1995.
Dr. George Philander, Princeton University; El Ni?o in the Atlantic, June 2, 1995.
Dr. David Randall, Colorado State University; Arakawa and Schubert 20 Years Later: The Dust Finally Settles, June 30, 1995.
Dr. Bhupen Goswami, Indian Institute of Science; Internal vs. SST-forced Interannual Variations and Predictability of Indian Summer Monsoon, July 10, 1995.
Dr. P. Malanotte-Rizzoli, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Oceanographic Data Assimilation: Purposes and Examples, September 26, 1995.
Dr. Daniel Botkin, George Mason University; Biological Carbon Sequestering During Rapid Climate Change, September 27, 1995.
Dr. Lisan Yu, M.I.T.; Analysis of the North Atlantic Climatologies Using a Combined OGCM/Adjoined Approach, November 2, 1995.
Jorge Sarmiento, Princeton University; The Role of the Oceans in the Global Carbon Cycle, November 21, 1995.
Prof. Bin Wang, University of Hawaii; ENSO as a Chaotic Standing Oscillator, February 5, 1996.
Prof. Dennis Lettenmaier, University of Washington; Some Hydrologic Issues in Representing the Land Surface in Coupled Land-Atmosphere Models, February 6, 1996.
Prof. Edward Lorenz, M.I.T.; Optimal Sited for Supplementary Weather Observations: Simulations with a Small Model, May 13, 1996.
Dr. M. Neil Ward, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma; Climate Predictability Over Africa and Europe, September 12, 1996.
Dr. Lennart Bengtsson, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany; Climate Variability and Climate Change September 13, 1996.
Prof. Rainald Lohner, Institute for Computational Sciences & Informatics, George Mason University; CFD Using Instructured Tetrahedral Grids, September 25, 1996.
Dr. Pierre Morel, NASA Office of Mission to Planet Earth; Scientific Strategy for Climate Change Research: Key Issues January 31, 1997.
Dr. Kerry Emanuel NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center; Some Aspects of Tropical Dynamics; February 21, 1997.
Dr. Kikuro Miyakoda I.M.G.A.; Tropical-Wide Teleconnection and Oscillation; March 5, 1997.
Dr. Pavel Groisman University of Massachusetts; The Use of Empirical Data in Assessing the Effects of Snow and Cloud Cover on Climate, and the Internal Consistency of GCMs, March 12, 1997.
Dr. David Battisti, University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences; El Ni?o/Southern Oscillation: Its a Wacky World (ENSO as a Stochastically Forced Dynamical System: Optimal Structures, Statistics, and the Implications for Predictability of ENSO), October 13, 1997.
Dr. Eli Tziperman, Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Isreal); Is the Present-Day Thermohaline Circulation Nearly Unstable?, January 7, 1998
Dr. James Carton, University of Maryland; The Ocean's Climate: Are There Global Modes of Variability?, February 17, 1998
Dr. Sykuro Manabe, Institute for Global Change Research (Tokyo, Japan); Model Assessment of Decadal Variability and Trend in the Pacific Ocean. March 13, 1998.
Dr. Bin Wang, University of Hawaii; A Possible Negative Feedback Mechanism for ENSO Turnabout. June 5, 1998.
Dr. Winston Chao, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; The Origin of Monson Onset. Octobre 23, 1998.
Dr. Murray Salby, University of Colorado; A Hough Spectral Model for Three-Dimensional Studies of the Upper Troposphere and Middle Atmosphere: Implications for Global Ozone Change. Octobre 29, 1998.
Dr. Duane Waliser, State University of New York, Stony Brook; The Madden-Julian Oscillation: Simulating, Predicting and Coupling to the Ocean. November 16, 1998.
Dr. Michael Iaocono, Atmospheric and Environmental Research; Improved Longwave Radiation Model Impacts on CCM3 Climate Simulations. December 2, 1998
Dr. Zoltan Toth, Multiple Flow Regimes: ENSO Induced or Intrinsic? December 15 1998.
Dr. Jerry D. Mahlman, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory; Human-Caused Climate Warming: Implications for Practically Everything, December 16, 1998
Dr. Steven Vavrus, University of Wisconsin; The Impact of Atmospheric Variability on the Mean Response of the Ocean. December 17, 1998.
Dr. Claire Perigaud, Earth and Space Sciences Division Jet Propulsion Laboratory and California Institute of Technology; Theories and Predictions of El Ni?o Using Intermediate Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Models with Parameterizations Derived from Data, September 30, 1998

last update: 17 February, 1998
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