Presented on November 10, 2021, by Professor J. David NeelinDepartment of Atmospheric and Oceanic SciencesUniversity of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Abstract: Precipitation processes are notoriously complex, so it is not surprising that weather and climate models exhibit deficiencies in simulation
A New Time-dependent Theory of Tropical Cyclone Intensification
Presented on November 3, 2021, by Professor Yuqing WangDepartment of Atmospheric Sciences & International Pacific Research Center (IPRC)School of Ocean and Earth Science and TechnologyUniversity of Hawai’i at Mānoa Abstract: In this study, the boundary-layer tangential wind budget equation following
Evidence for increasing tropical cyclone activity in the North Atlantic region over the 20th century
Presented on October 27, 2021, by Professor Kerry A. EmanuelDepartment of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge Abstract: I will present new results from downscaling tropical cyclones from three different 20th century reanalyses, which use