Presented on December 19, 2025, by Weixin XuProfessor, Ph.DSchool of Atmospheric ScienceSun Yat-sen UniversityZhuhai, China ABSTRACT: Accurate forecasting of tropical cyclone (TC) intensity still faces great challenges, as intensity change is impacted by complex processes across multiple scales involving both
Coupled Seasonal Data Assimilation of Sea Ice, Ocean, and Atmospheric Dynamics over the Last Millennium
Presented on November 12, 2025, by Zilu MengPhD studentDepartment of Atmospheric and Climate ScienceUniversity of Washington ABSTRACT: Reconstructing past climate is crucial for understanding the dynamics of our climate system and improving climate projections. This presentation introduces the first seasonal-resolution
AI/ML: History and Meteorological Applications
Presented on October 29, 2025, by Melinda PengUCCS ABSTRACT: Artificial Intelligence (AI), a term coined in 1956, has experienced several cycles of rapid advancement followed by periods of stagnation. A breakthrough occurred in 2016 when Google’s AlphaGo demonstrated that machines
Improved Analysis and Prediction of Tropical Storm Hermine (2022) over the Eastern Tropical Atlantic Using NASA CPEX-CV Field Campaign Observations
Presented on October 22, 2025, by Prof. Shu-Hua ChenCollege of Agricultural and Environmental SciencesUC Davis ABSTRACT: In September 2022, NASA conducted the Convective Processes Experiment-Cabo Verde (CPEX-CV) campaign over the data-sparse eastern Atlantic. Over this region, CPEX-CV collected a suite
Multiscale Atmospheric Processes behind Geoengineering: from Small-Scale Aerosol-Cloud Interactions to Large-Scale Stratospheric Transport and Dynamics
Presented on September 17, 2025, by Dr. Hongwei SunFacultyDepartment of Atmospheric SciencesUniversity of Hawai’i at Mānoa ABSTRACT: Numerical models have become important tools for scientists to understand the complex climate system. Various types of numerical models (e.g., Lagrangian vs. Eulerian
Dynamics of MJO Eastward Propagation
Presented on September 10, 2025, by Professor Tim LiAtmospheric Sciences DepartmentUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa ABSTRACT: The madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) is a large-scale low-frequency mode in the tropical atmosphere, and it represents a major predictability source for sub-seasonal forecast. Many current
BAMS: AI Weather and Climate Prediction and Applications
Weather in Economic Models: From Supply and Demand to Climate Impacts
Presented on April 9, 2025, by Michael J. Roberts, ProfessorEconomics, Sea Grant, UHEROUniversity of Hawai’i Mānoa ABSTRACT: In this talk, I’ll give an informal overview of research projects that integrate high-resolution weather data into economic analysis. Topics will span several
Spatial Matters! The Role of Rainfall in Flash Floods on Small Mountainous Watersheds
Presented on April 2, 2025, by Dr. Yu-Fen HuangJunior ResearcherTsang Stream LabDepartment of Natural Resources and Environmental Management (NREM)University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa ABSTRACT: Flash floods pose significant risks in mountainous watersheds due to the rapid streamflow response to rainfall.
Aerosol dispersion and settling in the turbulent boundary layer
Presented on March 12, 2025, by Dr. David RichterDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth SciencesUniversity of Notre Dame ABSTRACT: In the marine and terrestrial boundary layers, aerosol particles are continually being produced, transported, and deposited, and these particles