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Seminars

2013

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Speaker: Pedro DiNezio, IPRC

Weaker Walker Circulation during the Last Glacial Maximum Due to Reduced Sea Level
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100
Time: 3:30 pm
Joint IPRC/MET Seminar

Monday, March 11, 2013

The 2013 IPRC Public Lecture in Climate Science
Speaker: William Chameides, Dean of Environmental Studies, Duke University
Title: Dealing With Climate Change: Are We Flying Blind?
Place: Art Building Auditorium
Time: 7:30pm

Friday, March 1, 2013

Speaker: Tommy G. Jensen, Naval Research Laboratory, Oceanography Division, Stennis Space Center, MS
Title: COAMPS Simulation of the MJOs during DYNAMO
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 11:00 am
Informal Discussion

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Speaker: Tomoya Kataoka, National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management, Ibaraki, Japan
Title: Web-camera monitoring of quantity and movement of beached marine debris
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 11:00 am

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Speaker: Toru Miyama,JAMSTEC
Title: Case studies of precipitation/cloud formation over the Kuroshio/Kuroshio Extension using the IPRC atmospheric regional model
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 11:00 am
Informal Discussion

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Speaker: In-Sik Kang, Atmospheric Sciences, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Korea
Title: Essential Moisture Dynamics of the MJO
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100
Time: 3:30 pm
Joint IPRC/MET Seminar

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Speaker: Kazuyuki Miyazaki, IPRC Visiting Research Scientist from JAMSTEC
Title: Satellite Chemical Data Assimilation for the Composition and Lighting NOx Emissions
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100
Time: 3:30 pm
Joint IPRC/MET Seminar

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Speaker: Yuqing Wang, IPRC and Dept. of Meteorology, UHM
Title: What Controls the Interannual Variability of Tropical Cyclone Genesis Frequency over the Western North Pacific?
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100
Time: 3:30 pm
Joint IPRC/MET Seminar

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Speaker: Matthew England, University of New South Wales, Australia
Title: The Southern Ocean: Trends, variability and its role in the global climate system
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 723 (POST 723)
Time: 3:00 pm

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Speaker: Megumi Chikamoto, IPRC and JAMSTEC
Title: Temperature-induced Marine Export Production during the Glacial Period
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100
Time: 3:00 pm
Joint IPRC/OCN Seminar

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Speaker: Bin Wang, IPRC and UH Department of Meteorology
Title: Subtropical-High Predictability Establishes a Promising Way for Monsoon and Tropical Storm Predictions
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100
Time: 3:30 pm
Joint IPRC/MET Seminar

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Speaker: Claude Frankignoul, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Title: The atmospheric response to the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation variability
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100
Time: 3:00 pm
Joint IPRC/OCN Seminar

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Speaker: Kevin Hamilton, IPRC and UH Department of Meteorology
Title: Surviving in Nature’s Casino – A Meteorologist’s View of Market Based Weather Risk Management
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100
Time: 3:30 pm
Joint IPRC/MET Seminar

2012

Monday, December 17, 2012

Speaker: Emmanuel Witrant, Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble, GISPA-lab France
Title: New Methods for Modeling Atmospheric Scenarios from Ice Core Measurements
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Informal Discussion
Speakers: Scietists from JAMSTEC's Research Institute for Global Change (RIGC)
1. Speaker and Title: Prabir Patra: Atmospheric CO2 and CH4
2. Speaker and Title: Ryu Saito: "Atmospheric CO2 modeling and observation (GOSAT)
3. Speaker and Title: Kazuyuki Miyazaki: Atmospheric CO2 data assimilation
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 2:20 pm

Friday, November 30, 2012

Speaker: Tom Russon, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Title: The extent of unforced ENSO changes over the last Millennium
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Speaker: Miho Ishizu, IPRC
Title: The relationship between oxygen and other biogeochemical parameters in the world ocean based on potential temperature
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Joint IPRC/OCN seminar

Friday, November 16, 2012

Speaker: Sosuke Mihara, Graduate of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Japan
Title: The North Pacific STCC under seasonal forcing in an idealized Ocean GCM
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Speaker: Zuojun Yu, IPRC and Department of Oceanography
Title: Deoxygenation in the tropical Indian Ocean during the past 60 years: spatial distribution and implication for better prediction
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100
Time: 3:00 pm

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Title: Case studies of marine debris in Hawai'i
Speakers:
1) Nikolai Maximenko, IPRC/SOEST, UH Manoa, "Why Hawai'i?"
2) Axel Lauer, IPRC/SOEST, UH Manoa, "The Kamilo Beach drifter experiment"
3) Henry Carson, Marine Science Department, UH Hilo, "Tracking the sources and sinks of local marine debris in Hawai‘i"
4) Oleg Melnichenko, IPRC/SOEST, UH Manoa, "The hidden plastic of Hanalua beach"
5) Jan Hafner, IPRC/SOEST, UH Manoa, "Tsunami debris in Hawaii"
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Joint IPRC/UH & DMS/UH Hilo Discussion

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Speaker: Tobias Friedrich, IPRC, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Title: Can We Reconstruct Past Large-Scale Ocean Circulation Changes from the Seawater Neodymium Isotopic Composition?
Place: Marine Science Building (MSB) 100
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Joint IPRC/OCN seminar

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Speaker: Jessica Benthuysen, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Hobart, Australia
Title:The Leeuwin Current: The roles of topographic trapping, mixing, and advection in a buoyancy-driven eastern boundary current
Place: Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg. (POST) 723
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 pm
Joint IPRC/OCN Seminar

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Speaker: Bin Wang, IPRC and Department of Meteorology
Title: Cause of the recent intensification of tropical cyclones over the Arabian Sea
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100
Time: 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Joint IPRC/MET Seminar

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Speaker: Shota Katsura, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute,
The University of Tokyo, Japan
Title: The variation of North Pacific Tropical Water in its formation region
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 pm

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Speaker: Matthew Widlansky, IPRC
Title: Spotlight on the South Pacific Convergence Zone: How will Pacific Rainfall Bands Respond to a Warming Climate?
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100
Time: 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Joint IPRC/MET Seminar

Friday, October 12, 2012

Speaker: Aiko Voigt, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany
Title: Compensation of hemispheric surface albedo differences by tropical clouds
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Speaker: Kyung-Il Chang, Seoul National University, Korea
Title: Long-term direct velocity measurements at a choke point of the southwestern EJS (East/Japan Sea)
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 pm
Joint IPRC/OCN Seminar

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Speaker: Kevin Hamilton, IPRC and Department of Meteorology
Title: Dynamical Meteorology of the Martian Atmosphere
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Joint IPRC/MET Seminar

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Speaker: Jim Potemra, APDRC and HIGP
Title: Accessing data and information from the Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 pm
Joint IPRC/OCN Seminar

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Speaker: Akira Kawamura, School of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan
Title: Introduction of the distributed urban storm runoff model (Tokyo Storm Runoff model) with an advanced GIS catchment delineation
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 pm

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Speaker: Michael Sarnthein, University of Kiel, Germany
Title: Deglacial CO2 rise driven by North Pacific Deepwater Formation
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100
Time: 1:45 - 2:45 pm
Joint IPRC/OCN Seminar

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Speaker: Sally Langford, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences,
University of Colorado, Boulder
Title: How well can we predict the Indian Ocean Dipole teleconnections?
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Speaker: Helen Phillips, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia
Title: Observations of the velocity structure of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and the South Indian Ocean
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 723 (POST 723)
Joint IPRC/OCN seminar
Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Speaker: Steven Feldstein, The Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania
Title: Teleconnections and the MJO: Intraseasonal and interannual variability
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 723 (POST 723)
Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Monday, June 25, 2012

Speaker: Sukyoung Lee, The Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania
Title: Does tropical convection drive polar amplification and poleward jet shift?
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 723 (POST 723)
Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Friday, June 8, 2012

Speaker: Zong-Liang Yang, Center for Integrated Earth System Science & Earth System Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Title: Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities in Modeling Land Surface Processes
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Friday, June 8, 2012

Speaker: Qiuzhen Yin, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Title: Individual contributions of insolation and CO2 to the interglacial climates of the past 800,000 years
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Speaker: Young Ho Kim, Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute, Korea
Title: Development of a regional framework for the Korean ocean forecast system based on GFDL MOM4p1
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

ABSTRACT

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Speaker: André Berger, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Title: Astronomical Theory of Climate: A Review
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 723 (POST 723)
Time: 2:30 - 3:30 pm
Joint IPRC/OCN/MET Special Seminar
ABSTRACT

Monday, May 14, 2012

Speaker: Bruce Cornuelle, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California
Title: Green's functions for western boundary transport at the NEC bifurcation latitude
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Monday, April 30, 2012

Speaker: Paolo Antonelli, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Title: On the Use of Three-Dimensional Atmospheric Fields of Temperature and Moisture, Inferred from Hyperspectral Infrared Space-Borne Observations, for Short-Term Forecasting of Convection Occurrence
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Joint IPRC - Meteorology Seminar

Monday, April 30, 2012

Speaker: Christina Karamperidou, Columbia University, New York
Title: The interacting dynamics of tropical and extratropical climate: A
"reduced-space" perspective"

Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Thursday, April 19, 2012

IPRC Discussion
Speaker: Kohei Takatama, IPRC
Title: Mechanisms of the surface-layer wind response to the Gulf Stream in a regional atmospheric model
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

IPRC Discussion
Speaker: Arthur Miller, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Title: Isolating mesoscale coupled ocean-atmosphere interactions in the Kuroshio
Extension region

Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Monday, March 19, 2012

Speaker: Samantha Stevenson, IPRC
Title: Mechanisms of the ENSO Response to CO2 Increases
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 723 (POST 723)
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 pm

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Speaker: Scott Power, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia
Titles:Increasing Information Content of 21st Century Projections; and
Decadal Climate Variability in the South-west Pacific
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Monday, March 12, 2012

Speaker: Rob Chadwick, Met Office Hadley Centre, United Kingdom
Title:Patterns of tropical rainfall, SST, and circulation change in idealized CO2 removal experiments
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Thursday, March 1, 2012

IPRC Discussion
Speaker: Rui-Xin Huang, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA
Title: Adiabatic Density Surface and Mixing Path
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Speaker: De-Zheng Sun, NOAA/CIRES, Boulder, Colorado
Title: The Effect of ENSO Events on the Tropical Pacific Mean Climate
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 1:30 - 2:30 pm

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Speaker: Noel Davidson, Center of Australian Weather and Climate Research (CAWCR), Australia
Title: Tropical Cyclone Research at CAWCR
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Joint IPRC/MET Special Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Peter G. Black, SAIC Inc./ Naval Research Laboratory Monterey, CA
Title:Typhoons Fanapi and Megi from ITOP2010: Ocean interaction and extreme-wind boundary layers
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Joint IPRC/MET Special Seminar

Monday, February 27, 2012

Lunchtime Discussion
Speaker: Nils Fischer, Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology
Hamburg, Germany
Title: Evolution and Variability of Ocean Circulation in a Transient Holocene Simulation
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time:11:00 am - 12:00 pm


Friday, February 10, 2012

Speaker: Yign Noh, Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Yonsei University, Korea
Title: Investigation of Mixing Process in the Upper Ocean Using LES
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Joint IPRC-Oceanography Seminar

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Speaker: Sarah Kang, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Title: Impact of Polar Ozone Depletion on Mean and Extreme Precipitation
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:30 pm - 4:30pm
Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar

Friday, February 3, 2012

(Informal Discussion)

Speaker: Ingo Richter, Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology
Title: Two modes of variability in the equatorial Atlantic: ENSO-like vs. off-equatorially forced events
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time:11:00 am- 12:00 pm


Thursday, February 2, 2012

Speaker: Ali Belmadani, IPRC
Title: Wind-forced baroclinic beta-plumes, and an application to the Hawaiian Lee Countercurrent.
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Joint IPRC-Oceanography Seminar

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Speaker: In-Sik Kang, Seoul National University, Climate Environment System Research Center
Title: Some Thought and Attempt of Cloud Microphysics in a GCM
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:30 pm - 4:30pm
Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Speaker: Niklas Schneider, IPRC and Department of Oceanography
Title: The response of the atmospheric Ekman layer and Ekman pumping to sea surface temperature fronts
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00pm
Joint IPRC-Oceanography Seminar

Friday, January 13, 2012

Informal Discussion
Speaker: Kelvin Richards, IPRC and Department of Oceanography
Title: Mixing over the thermocline ridge in the Indian Ocean: Preliminary results from CINDY
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 11:00 pm - 12:00pm

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Speaker: Tomoki Tozuka, The University of Tokyo
Title: Roles of the South China Sea Throughflow in the Global Climate as Revealed by a CGCM
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 723 (POST 723)
Time: 2:00 - 3:00pm

Monday, January 9, 2012

Speaker: Pedro Vélez-Belchi, Scripps Institution of Oceanography / Spanish Oceanographic Institute
Title: Eddy-induced Kuroshio intrusions in the East China Sea shelf
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 723 (POST 723)
Time: 2:00 - 3:00pm
ABSTRACT

January 6, 2012

Speaker:Seok-Woo Son, McGill University, Canada
Title: The Effect of Topography on Storm Track Intensity and its Implication on Midwinter Suppression of the Pacific Storm Track
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time:11:00am - 12:00pm

2011

Monday, December 19, 2011

Informal Discussion
Speaker: Talgat R. Kilmatov, Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia
Title: Climatic ocean trends and possibility of structural instability
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 11:00 - 22:00 pm
ABSTRACT

Friday, December 16, 2011

Speaker: Gerald A. Meehl, National Center for Atmospheric Research,
Boulder, CO, USA
Title: Understanding the U.S. east-west differential of heat extremes
in terms of record temperatures and the "warming hole"

Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 723 (POST 723)
Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
ABSTRACT

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Speaker: Pierre Augier, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Title:Turbulence in strongly stratified fluids: Cascade processes
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Speaker: Neven S. Fuckar, Postdoctoral Fellow, IPRC
Title: On the role of extratropical ocean circulation in the tropical-extratropical and interhemispheric interaction
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
ABSTRACT
Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar

Monday, November 28, 2011

Speaker: Yosuke Yamashiki, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University City, Japan
Title: Biwa 3D circulation model and its application for impact assessment under global climate change
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

(Informal Seminar)
Speaker: Oceana Francis, International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska
Title: Ocean wave conditions in the Chukchi Sea from in situ and satellite observations
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

(Informal Seminar)
Speaker: Gleb Panteleev, International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska
Title: Performance of the adjointless 4dVar technique with community models
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 11 am - 12 pm
ABSTRACT

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Speaker: Yanping Li, Postdoctoral Fellow, IPRC
Title: Excitation of Rainfall Over the Tropical Western Pacific
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar
ABSTRACT

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Speaker: Lu Wang, Visiting Scholar, IPRC
Title: Intraseasonal SST Variability and Air-Sea Interaction over Kuroshio Extension Region during Boreal Summer
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar

Monday, October 17, 2011
IPRC Public Lecture in Climate Science

Speaker: Rosina Bierbaum, Dean of University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment
Title: Climate Change and Development: Avoiding the Unmanageable and Managing the Unavoidable
Place: Art Auditorium, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Time:7:00 pm
Press Release; Flyer

Friday, October 14, 2011

Speaker: Jagadish Shukla, George Mason University (GMU) and
Institute of Global Environment and Society (IGES), Maryland
Title: On the Role of Unforced Multidecadal Variability in Twentieth Century
Global Warming

Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 pm
ABSTRACT
Joint IPRC/MET/OCN Special Seminar

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Speaker: Pang-Chi Hsu, IPRC
Title: Role of the Boundary Layer Moisture Asymmetry in Causing the Eastward Propagation of the Madden-Julian Oscillation
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
ABSTRACT
Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Speaker: Francois Ascani, IPRC and Department of Oceanography, UHM
Title: Do submesoscale processes inject nitrate pulses into the euphotic zone
around station ALOHA?

Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 pm
ABSTRACT
Joint IPRC-Oceanography Seminar

Monday, September 26

Speaker: Tommy G. Jensen, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi
Title: Wave-current interaction in the Florida Current in a coupled atmosphere-ocean-wave model
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg. 723 (POST 723)
Time: 2:00-3:00 pm
ABSTRACT

Friday, September 23, 2011

(Informal Seminar)
Speaker: Tommy G. Jensen, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi
Title: Coupled Modeling of Air-sea Interaction in the Indian Ocean during an MJO
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
ABSTRACT

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Speaker: Kevin P. Hamilton, IPRC and Department of Meteorology, UHM
Title: The QBO Story: From the Shrewd Intuition of a 19th Century Honolulu Amateur Scientist to Terraflop Numerical Simulations
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

(Informal Seminar)
Speaker: Shoshiro Minobe, Hokkaido University, Japan
Title: New global gridded nutrient and oxygen datasets: Basic properties and trend-detection application
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
ABSTRACT

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Speaker: Ryo Furue, IPRC and Department of Oceanography, UHM
Title: Density-driven flow along an eastern-boundary continental margin in an inviscid, variable-density layer model
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 pm
Joint IPRC-Oceanography Seminar
ABSTRACT

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Speaker: Jae N. Lee, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, California
Title: Two Satellite Remote Sensing Applications: (i) MISR Cloud/Aerosol and Their Variability Through ENSO, and (ii) MLS Diagnosis of CO and H2O Transport
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:30 pm
Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar
ABSTRACT

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Speaker: Matthew England, Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC)
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Title: Role of Ocean Gateways in Regional Climate and Rainfall
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 723 (POST 723)
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 pm
ABSTRACT

Friday, August 26, 2011

Speaker: Masaki Satoh, Research Institute for Global Change, JAMSTEC & Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute,The University of Tokyo
Title: Global Nonhydrostatic Simulations by a Nonhydrostatic Icosahedral
Atmospheric Model, NICAM: Intra-Seasonal Oscillations and Tropical Cyclones

Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 127 (POST 127)
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Speaker: Jiming Sun, Department of Meteorology, University of Hawaii
Title: A new explanation for the cumulus cloud formation with cloud droplet spectral broadening and ice particle multiplication
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 3:30 pm
Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar

Monday, May 16, 2011

Speaker: Yuko M. Okumura, National Center for Atmospheric Research,
Boulder, Colorado
Title: Low-frequency Climate Variability over Antarctica and Linkages to the
Tropics: Analysis of Instrumental Data and Ice Core and Coral Records for
the Past 100-200 Years"

Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 723 ( POST 723)
Time: 3:00 pm
ABSTRACT

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Speaker: Humio Mitsudera, Hokkaido University, Japan
Title: Overturning Circulation in the Sea of
Okhotsk and Intermediate Layer Variations

Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 2:00 pm

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Speaker: Axel Lauer, International Pacific Research Center
Title: A scale-aware parameterization of precipitation formation in climate models - Integral constraints on autoconversion and accretion
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:30 pm
Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar
ABSTRACT

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Speaker: Randall J. Alliss, Northrop Grumman Corporation
Title: Maximizing and Optimizing the Large Scale Deployment and
Integration of Renewable Energy

Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 10:30 am
Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar
ABSTRACT

Friday, March 18, 2011

Speaker: Pallav Ray, International Pacific Research Center
Title: On the Initiation of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO)
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:00 pm
Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar
ABSTRACT

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Speaker: Hidekatsu Yamazaki, Department of Ocean Sciences,
Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Japan
Title: The Kuroshio and Mixing Phenomena
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 2:00 pm
ABSTRACT

Monday, March 7, 2011

Speaker: Fuqing Zhang, Penn State University
Title: Prediction, Predictability and Data Assimilation of Tropical Cyclones
Place: Pacific Ocean Science & Technology Bldg., Room 723 (POST 723)
Time: 3:00 pm

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Speaker: François Ascani, IPRC
Title: The role of dissipation in wave-induced transport in a basin
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:00 pm
Joint IPRC-Oceanography Seminar
ABSTRACT

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Speaker: Ali Bel Madani, IPRC
Title: Intraseasonal Kelvin Waves and Humboldt Current Eddies
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:00 pm
Joint IPRC-Oceanography Seminar
ABSTRACT

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Speaker: Bunmei Taguchi, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Earth Simulator Center
Title:Seasonal evolutions of atmospheric response to decadal SST anomalies in the North Pacific subarctic frontal zone: Observation and a coupled model simulation
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:30 pm
Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar
ABSTRACT

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Speaker: Kevin Hamilton, IPRC
Title: Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:30 pm
Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Speaker: Zuojun Yu, IPRC
Title: Oxygen Minimum Zones in the Northern Indian Ocean
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:00 pm
Joint IPRC-Oceanography Seminar
ABSTRACT

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Speaker: Dr. Sarah Kang, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York
Title: The tropical response to extratropical thermal forcing: Theory and application
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:30 pm
ABSTRACT

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Speaker: Malte Heinemann, IPRC
Title: Warm and Sensitive Paleocene-Eocene Climate
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:00 pm
Joint IPRC-Oceanography Seminar
ABSTRACT

2010

Friday, December 17, 2010

Speaker: Jerry Meehl, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
Title: Decadal Variability of Asian-Australian Monsoon-ENSO-TBO Relationships
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:00 pm

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Speaker: Niklas Schneider, IPRC
Title: Rotating Table
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:00 pm
Joint Oceanography/IPRC Seminar

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Speaker: Nat Johnson, IPRC
Title: Changes in the sea surface temperature threshold for tropical convection
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:30 pm
Joint Meteorology/IPRC Seminar

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Speaker: Carsten Eden
Centre for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Hamburg, Germany
Title: A dynamically consistent closure for zonally averaged ocean models
Place: Pacific Ocean Science and Technology (POST) Bldg., Room 723
Time: 3:00 pm
ABSTRACT

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Speaker: Oliver Elison Timm, IPRC
Title: Statistical downscaling of future rainfall changes in Hawaii based on IPCC AR4 scenario simulations
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:30 pm
Joint Meteorology/IPRC Seminar

Tuesday, November 9, 2010
IPRC 2010 Public Lecture in Climate Science

Speaker: Susan Avery, Director, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Title: A Changing World, A Changing Ocean
Place: Architcture Auditorium, 2410 Campus Road, Room 205
Time: 7:30 pm

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Speaker: Neven Stjepan Fučkar, IPRC
Title: Adaptive scaling model of the main pycnocline and the associated overturning circulation
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:00 pm
Joint Oceanography/IPRC Seminar

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Speaker: Kevin Hamilton, IPRC
Title: The Brewer-Dobson Circulation Saga - From Crazy German Balloonists to
the Future of the Global Climate

Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:30 pm
Joint Meteorology/IPRC Seminar

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Speaker: Kazuhiro Oshima, Hokkaido University,
Sapporo, Japan
Title: Response of North Pacific climate to global warming based on CMIP3
multi-model projections

Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:30 pm
Joint Meteorology/IPRC Seminar

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Speaker: H. Annamalai, IPRC
Title: Moist static energy budget diagnostics for monsoon research
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:30 pm
Joint Meteorology/IPRC Seminar

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Speaker: Shang-Ping Xie, IPRC
Title: Indian Ocean capacitor effect on Northwest Pacific/East Asian climate: Dynamics and decadal change
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:30 pm
Joint Meteorology/IPRC Seminar

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Speaker: Yukiko Imada, University of Tokyo, Japan
Title: Climatic impact of tropical instability waves in the Pacific
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:30 pm
Joint Meteorology/IPRC Seminar

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Speaker: Oleg Melnichenko, IPRC
Title: Stationary Alternating Quasi-Zonal Jet-Like Structures in the Ocean
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:00 pm
Joint Oceanography/IPRC Seminar
ABSTRACT

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Speaker: Eitarou Oka, Lecturer, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Japan
Title: New Aspects on the Formation and Circulation of the North Pacific Mode Waters Based on Profiling Float and Shipboard Measurements
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:00 pm
Joint Oceanography/IPRC Seminar
ABSTRACT

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Speaker:Tomohiko Tomita, Associate Professor, Kumamoto University, Japan
Title: Interannual Variability in the Baiu Front
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:30 pm
Joint Meteorology/IPRC Seminar

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Speaker: Meghan Cronin, Director, Ocean Climate Station Program, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Title: A Generalized Ekman Model for Frontal Regions
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:00 pm
Joint Oceanography/IPRC Seminar
ABSTRACT

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Speaker:Takatoshi Sakazaki, Hokkaido University
Title: Diurnal variations in the troposphere and stratosphere cycle
Place: IPRC Conference Room, Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg, Room 414
Time: 10:00 am

Monday, August 2, 2010

Speaker: Gary Lagerloef, Earth & Space Research
Title: The Aquarius salinity satellite mission and studies of the marine freshwater cycle
Place: Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg, Room 723
Time: 11:00 am

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Speaker: Jessica Benthuysen, MIT/ WHOI Joint Program, Cambridge, MA
Title: Upwelling at a shelf break caused by buoyancy shutdown
Place: Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg., Room 414 (POST 414)
Time: 11:00 am


ABSTRACT

Friday, May 28, 2010

Speaker: Matthew Widlansky, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
Title: A general theory for the spatial and transient behavior of the
South Pacific Convergence Zone

Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 10:00 am

Thursday April 29th, 2010

Speaker: James Potemra, IPRC and HIGP
Title: The Hawaii Ocean Observing System
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:00 pm
Abstract
Joint Oceanography-IPRC Seminar

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Speaker: Richard Murnane, Program Manager, Risk Prediction Initiative Bermuda Institute for Ocean Sciences, and Senior Vice President, Baseline Management Co., Inc.
Title: Natural Hazards and the Catastrophe Reinsurance Industry
Place: Marine Sciences Building, Room 100 (MSB 100
Time: 3:30
FLYER
Special Seminar sponsored by the International Pacific Research Center (IPRC), the University of Hawai'i Shidler College of Business MFE Program, the International Center for Climate and Society (ICCS), and the University of Hawai'i Meteorology Department (MET)

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Speaker: Stephan Lorenz, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Title: Climate impact of volcanic eruptions in ensemble simulations of the last millennium using the COSMOS model
Place: Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg, Room 723 (POST 723)
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 pm

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Speaker: June-Yi Lee, IPRC
Title: Predictable Mode Analysis on Seasonal Climate Anomalies
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:30 pm
Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar

Monday, April 12, 2010

Speaker: Dave Mattey, Department of Earth Sciences, University of London
Title: Fidelity of climate recording by modern and ancient stalagmites: Insight from cave monitoring in Gibraltar
Place: Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg, Room 723 (POST 723)
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 pm
Joint IPRC-G&G special seminar
ABSTRACT

Monday, March 1, 2010

Speaker: Masaru Inatsu, Department of Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Japan
Title: Connecting global and regional atmospheric models:
A two-way nesting approach

Place: Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg, Room 723 (POST 723)
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 pm

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Speaker: Ding Yihui, National Climate Center, Beijing, China
Title: Inter-decadal weakening of the Asian summer monsoon and
its projection of future change in a warmer climate

Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:30 pm
Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Speaker: In-Sik Kang, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Title: MJO predictability: Impact of initialization
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:30 pm
Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Speaker: Masahiro Watanabe and Yoshimitsu Chikamoto from the Center for Climate System Research, University of Tokyo, Japan
Title: Predictability of Pacific Decadal Oscillation and tropical Atlantic variability in hindcast experiments with the coupled climate model MIROC
Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:30 pm
Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Speaker: Edward R. Cook, Director of Tree-Ring Laboratory, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, New York
Title: Asian monsoon failure and megadrought during the last millennium
Place: POST 723
Time: 3:30 pm
Joint IPRC-Oceanography Seminar
ABSTRACT

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Speaker: Hisayuki Kubota, Research Institute for Global Change, Japan Agency for
Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Title: The recovery of historical typhoon track data over the Western North Pacific
during the early 20th century

Place: Marine Science Building, Room 100 (MSB 100)
Time: 3:30 pm
Joint IPRC-Meteorology Seminar

Monday, January 11, 2010

Speaker: Claude Frankignoul, l'Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris, France
Title: Large-scale atmospheric response to North Pacific western boundary current variability
Place: POST 723
Time: 3:00 pm
Joint IPRC-Oceanography Seminar