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 Niño
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, U.C.L.A.; 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.
last update: 26 February, 1996
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