Below is a list of past NWC seminars and colloquia. Listings of future NWC seminars and colloquia are posted on the NWC Seminar Series and Colloquium Page.
| DATE and TIME | SPEAKER | SUBJECT |
|---|---|---|
| 13 May 2008 3:30 PM |
David Karoly School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia |
Climate change science beyond the IPCC |
| 07 May 2008 3:30 PM |
Theodore B. Trafalis School of Industrial Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
Kernel Methods and Applications to Rainfall Estimation |
| 06 May 2008 3:30 PM |
1Chris St. Cyr and 2Bill Murtagh 1NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 2NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO |
Space Weather: What Is It, and Why Should a Meteorologist Care? |
| 29 April 2008 3:30 PM |
Curtis Alexander School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
Mobile Radar Based Climatology of Supercell Tornado Structures and Dynamics |
| 24 April 2008 3:30 PM |
Valliappa Lakshmanan CIMMS/NSSL, Norman, OK |
Data mining storm attributes in real-time: How it's done and research questions that it can address |
| 22 April 2008 3:30 PM |
Tzvi Gal-Chen Memorial Lecture: Rick Anthes University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO |
COSMIC-Accurate and precise profiling of the atmosphere from space using radio occultation |
| 15 April 2008 3:30 PM |
Brian Fiedler School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
The Energy Crisis: A Summary for Meteorologists |
| 08 April 2008 3:30 PM |
Alan Robock Department of Environmental Sciences Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ |
Climatic Consequences of Nuclear Conflict - Nuclear Winter is Still a Threat |
| 01 April 2008 3:30 PM |
David Dowell and David Stensrud National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, OK |
WRF Mesoscale and Storm-Scale Ensemble Analyses and Forecasts for Severe Weather Cases in 2007 |
| 25 March 2008 3:30 PM |
Yvette Richardson and Paul Markowski Department of Meteorology, Penn State University, University Park, PA |
Convective-storm research at Penn State: "What Yvette and Paul have done since leaving OU" |
| 18 March 2008 3:30 PM |
NO SEMINAR |
OU's Spring Break |
| 11 March 2008 3:30 PM |
Diandong Ren University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK |
Rainfall-triggered landslides in southern California-climatology and perspective under a future warming climate |
| 04 March 2008 3:30 PM |
Steven Koch NOAA / ESRL/ Global Systems Division, Boulder, CO |
Convective Storm Nowcasting using the Space-Time MesoAnalysis System (STMAS) |
| 26 February 2008 3:30 PM |
NO SEMINAR |
First US-China Symposium on Meteorology: Mesoscale Meteorology and Data Assimilation |
| 22 February 2008 9:30 AM |
Mike Coniglio NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory and Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, Norman, OK |
Journey to the SPC: The Development and Transfer of a Technique to Forecast MCS Longevity |
| 21 February 2008 9:30 AM |
Chris Anderson NOAA/ESRL/Global Systems Division, Boulder, CO |
RM. 1350 How might mesoscale ensemble data be used to generate cloud-permitting ensembles? |
| 12 February 2008 3:30 PM |
Michael W. Douglas NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, OK |
Two courses missing from meteorology programs at US universities |
| 05 February 2008 3:30 PM |
H. Dawn Reeves NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory National Research Council, Norman, OK |
**********NOTE: ROOM CHANGED TO NWC 1350********** Orographic flow response to variations in upstream humidity |
| 29 January 2008 3:30 PM |
David M. Schultz Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Department of Physical Sciences, University of Helsinki, and Finnish Meteorological Institute |
Does it rain more on the weekends? |
| 15 January 2008 3:30 PM |
Kiel Ortega University of Oklahoma/School of Meteorology/CIMMS, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK |
Severe weather warnings and warning verification based on threat areas |
| 13 December 2007 3:30 PM |
William Hooke Senior Policy Fellow and Director, AMS Policy Program |
Making Weather Science and Services Useful |
| 13 November 2007 3:30 PM |
Catherine Mavriplis Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, OK |
High Order Adaptive Numerical Methods for Fluid Flow |
| 06 November 2007 3:30 PM |
Jack Kain NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory |
The Value of Collaboration between Meteorological Researchers and Forecasters |
| 16 October 2007 3:30 PM |
Yoshi Sasaki Emeritus Professor in the School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
Is tornado an attractor of entropic balance at and around entropic sink ? |
| 09 October 2007 3:30 PM |
Kevin Scharfenberg1 Melissa Bukovsky2 1CIMMS, University of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL 2School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma |
An Overview of the State of Weather and Climate Policy |
| 03 October 2007 9:00 AM |
Kenneth James National Severe Storms Laboratory/National Weather Service, Norman, OK |
********NOTE: RM. 5720************ Value of Real-time Vegetation Fraction in High-resolution Models to Forecasts of Severe Convection |
| 03 October 2007 3:30 PM |
Daniel Rosenfeld1, William L. Woodley2, Guy Kelman1, Joseph H. Golden3 1Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel 2Woodley Weather Consultants2, Littleton, Colorado 3CIRES, Boulder, Colorado |
Inference of the Imminence of Tornadic and Hail-Producing Storms Using Multi-Spectral Satellite imagery |
| 02 October 2007 3:30 PM |
Pamela L. Heinselman CIMMS, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
Rapid Sampling of Severe Storms by the National Weather Radar Testbed Phased Array Radar |
| 27 September 2007 3:30 PM |
Steven Vasiloff NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, OK |
NSSL's NMQ system: Recent performance and near-term plans |
| 25 September 2007 3:30 PM |
Richard M. Hodur Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA |
NWP Research at the Naval Research Laboratory |
| 18 September 2007 3:30 PM |
David Lewellen Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, West Virgina University |
Large-Eddy Simulation of Tornadoes with Debris |
| 13 September 2007 9:30 AM |
Edward "Ted" Mansell Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, Norman, OK |
What's in YOUR Microphysics? Implications for data assimilation and electrification |
| 11 September 2007 3:30 PM |
Mohan Ramamurthy UNIDATA |
An Overview of and Vision for UNIDATA |
| 04 September 2007 3:30 PM |
Howie “Cb” Bluestein Professor of Meteorology and George Lynn Cross Research Professor School of Meteorology University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
Recent observations of severe convective storms made with the UMass X-Pol and the CIRPAS/Naval Postgraduate School MWR-05XP mobile Doppler radars (or, how to be “phased” by severe storms) |
| 29 August 2007 3:30 PM |
John Esterheld and Donald Giuliano Cameron International Corporation Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms Norman, OK |
Revisiting the Hodograph: A New Examination of Low-Level Shear Variation Between Storm Classes |
| 26 July 2007 1:00 PM |
Bill Ladwig School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
NOTE: ROOM 5930 Relationship Between Tropical Easterly Waves and Precipitation During the North American Monsoon |
| 24 July 2007 3:30 PM |
Patrick Marsh School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
ASSESSMENT OF THE SEVERE WEATHER ENVIRONMENT IN NORTH AMERICA SIMULATED BY A GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL: CURRENT AND FUTURE |
| 17 July 2007 3:30 PM |
Heather Reeves National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO |
Dynamic forcing and mesoscale variability of heavy precipitation events over the Sierra Nevada mountains |
| 26 June 2007 3:30 PM |
David J. Gochis Research Applications Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO |
Development of a prototype flash-flood prediction system for the Colorado Front Range using the coupled WRF/Noah-distributed hydrometeorological prediction system |
| 07 June 2007 4:00 PM |
Russ S. Schumacher Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO |
Processes Contributing to Extreme Rainfall in Simulated Mesoscale Convective Systems |
| 06 June 2007 4:00 PM |
Brian J. Etherton University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC |
************** ************** NOTE: ROOM 5600 ************** ************** Pre-emptive forecasts from an ensemble Kalman filter |
| 05 June 2007 4:00 PM |
Juanzhen Sun MMM/RAL, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO |
Short Term Explicit Prediction of High Impact Weather: Recent Activities at NCAR |
| 31 May 2007 4:00 PM |
Paul Janish Merrill Lynch Commodities, Houston, TX |
Meteorology and Impacts in the Energy Trading and Commodities Sector |
| 30 May 2007 4:00 PM |
Eugene W. McCaul, Jr. USRA, Huntsville, AL |
Forecasting Lightning Threat Using Cloud-resolving Model Simulations |
| 29 May 2007 4:00 PM |
Gary Lackman and Kelly Mahoney Dept of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC |
Quasi-Idealized WRF Model Experiments, MCS Motion, and Convective Momentum Transport |
| 24 May 2007 4:00 PM |
Tom Hamill NOAA Earth System Research Lab, Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO |
Reforecasting and probabilistic weather-climate prediction |
| 23 May 2007 4:00 PM |
Lance F. Bosart (with contributions from Anantha Aiyyer, Eyad Atallah, Matthew Cote, David DeLuca, Jared Klein and Alan Srock) Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY |
Heavy Rainfalls in the Northeast: Mesoscale Structures in Tropical Cyclones |
| 22 May 2007 3:30 PM |
Scott T. Shipley Department of Geography, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA Chief Scientist and Program Manager, Earth Resources Technology, Annapolis Junction, MD |
GIS Methods to Characterize and Monitor Weather Radar Propagation |
| 21 May 2007 4:00 PM |
Jeff Trapp Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Purdue Climate Change Research Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN |
Severe Thunderstorm Environments in the 21st Century |
| 18 May 2007 4:00 PM |
Ken Mylne Met Office, Exeter, UK |
Ensemble and High-Resolution Modelling Developments at the UK Met Office |
| 17 May 2007 4:00 PM |
Steven L. Mullen Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, Head, Dept. of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ |
Opportunities in Probabilistic Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting (PQPF) Research: A Hydrometeorological Slant |
| 16 May 2007 4:00 PM |
George Bryan National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO |
A comparison of convection-resolving simulations with convection-permitting simulations |
| 15 May 2007 4:00 PM |
Bill Gallus Dept. of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames, IA |
Forecasting issues related to convective system morphology |
| 10 May 2007 4:00 PM |
Jason Milbrandt Numerical Weather Prediction Research Section (Recherche en Prévision Numérique), Environment Canada |
A Multi-Moment Bulk Microphysics Scheme – Implications for the Simulation of Deep Convection |
| 09 May 2007 4:00 PM |
Neil Taylor Hydrometeorology and Arctic Lab, Environment Canada, Edmonton, Alberta |
The Understanding Severe Thunderstorms and Alberta Boundary Layers Experiment (UNSTABLE): A Project Overview |
| 08 May 2007 4:00 PM |
Jimy Dudhia National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO |
Overview of the Advanced Research WRF Model and Applications in Weather Forecasting and Regional Climate |
| 01 May 2007 3:30 PM |
David Hudak Environment Canada, Toronto, Canada |
The CloudSat satellite mission: Results from the first winter of operation |
| 30 April 2007 4:00 PM |
Stanley B. Trier National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO |
Mesoscale Convective Vortices (MCVs) Observed During BAMEX |
| 24 April 2007 3:30 PM |
Katharine M. Kanak Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
Vertical Vortices in the Convective Boundary Layer |
| 10 April 2007 3:30 PM |
Jian Zhang Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
NMQ – the National Mosaic and QPE Project at NSSL |
| 03 April 2007 3:30 PM |
Alexandre Fierro School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
High-resolution simulations of the microphysics and electrification in hurricane-like vortices and in a TOGA COARE tropical squall line |
| 27 March 2007 3:30 PM |
Yongpei Guan School of Industrial Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
Weather Forecasting and Decision Making under Uncertainty |
| 20 March 2007 3:30 PM |
************SPRING BREAK - NO NWC SEMINAR*************** | |
| 13 March 2007 3:30 PM |
Yoshi Sasaki Emeritus Professor in the School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
Is Tornadogenesis Deterministic or Probabilistic? Origin of Supercell Rotation? : Entropic Balance Theory |
| 27 February 2007 3:30 PM |
Camille Parmesan University of Texas, Austin, TX |
Ecological and evolutionary responses to recent climate change |
| 20 February 2007 3:30 PM |
Ming Xue Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms, School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
Recent Progresses in Storm-scale Simulation, NWP and Data Assimilation at CAPS |
| 13 February 2007 3:30 PM |
Jim Roby Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies, Lafayette, CO |
WindTracer Infrared Doppler LIDAR for Remote Wind and Aerosol Sensing |
| 06 February 2007 3:30 PM |
Yoshi Sasaki Emeritus Professor in the School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
High Resolution Simulation of the 21st Century Climate of 100 yr-period with the Japanese Earth Simulator |
| 02 February 2007 1:30 PM |
Robert Corell, David Karoly, Ken Crawford, Mark Shafer |
**********NOTE: ROOM 1350********** PANEL DISCUSSION Understanding the Causes and Impacts of Climate Change |
| 01 February 2007 7:00 PM |
Dr. Robert W. Corell Director, Global Change Program, H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, Washington, DC |
PUBLIC LECTURE The Implications of Global Climate Change |
| 10 January 2007 3:30 PM |
David M. Schultz Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Department of Physical Sciences, University of Helsinki, and Finnish Meteorological Institute |
The Increasing Costs of AMS Conferences |
| 19 December 2006 1:30 PM |
Sergey Matrosov NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory Boulder, CO |
NOTE TIME CHANGE TO 1:30 pm!!! Polarimetric radar studies at NOAA ETL/ESRL |
| 12 December 2006 3:30 PM |
Christopher A. Fiebrich Oklahoma Climatological Survey Norman, OK |
Transitioning the Historical Climate Archives to Data from Newly Automated Sites-- Maintaining Continuity in the Climate Record |
| 05 December 2006 3:30 PM |
J. Vivekanandan National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO |
NOTE ROOM CHANGE TO 1350!!! Development of a Community Airborne Platform Remote-Sensing Interdisciplinary Suite (CAPRIS) |
| 28 November 2006 3:30 PM |
David Mechem CIMMS, University of Oklahloma, Norman, Oklahoma |
Why Drizzle Matters |
| 14 November 2006 3:30 PM |
Douglas Lilly Kearney, Nebraska |
Who was Tzvi Gal-Chen and what did he do? |
| 07 November 2006 2:30 PM |
Kelvin K. Droegemeier School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma |
Transforming the Sensing and Numerical Prediction of High Impact Local Weather Through Dynamic Adaptation: People and Technologies Interacting with the Atmosphere |
| 02 November 2006 2:30 PM |
Harald Richter Bureau of Meteorology Training Centre, Melbourne, Australia |
NOTE TIME CHANGE!!! The Australian Severe Thunderstorm Forecast and Warning Methodology |
| 24 October 2006 3:30 PM |
NO SEMINAR |
College Retreat |
| 18 October 2006 3:30 PM |
Faculty School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma |
Top 5 Qualifying Exam Questions for 2006 with Answers! Room NWC 1350 |
| 17 October 2006 3:30 PM |
Jeffrey K. Lazo Director of the Weather Information Societal Impacts Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado |
Sensitivity of the United States Economy to Weather Variability |
| 16 October 2006 3:00 PM |
Jeffrey K. Lazo Director of the Weather Information Societal Impacts Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado |
Estimating the Value of Current and Improved Weather Forecasts |
| 10 October 2006 3:30 PM |
Alan Betts Atmospheric Research, Pittsford, Vermont |
Understanding Hydrometeorology using Global Models and Surface Observations |
| 09 October 2006 4:00 PM |
Alan K. Betts Atmospheric Research, Pittsford, Vermont |
Radiative Control on the Diurnal Temperature Range and the Strength of the Nocturnal Boundary Layer |
| 05 October 2006 3:30 PM |
George H. Bryan National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado |
Preliminary Conclusions about the Relative Importance of Lower-Level and Upper-Level Shear on the Intensity of Convective Systems |
| 03 October 2006 3:30 PM |
George H. Bryan National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado |
The Dynamics of the Trailing Stratiform Region of Squall Lines |
| 29 September 2006 10:30 AM |
National Weather Center Dedication |
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| 26 September 2006 3:30 PM |
NO SEMINAR |
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| 19 September 2006 7:30 PM |
James L. Bills Filmmaker, Corpus Christi, Texas |
Free Public Screening of the Film: Refuge of Last Resort at the Sooner Theatre |
| 19 September 2006 3:30 PM |
James L. Bills Filmmaker, Corpus Christi, Texas |
World Premiere Screening of the Film: Refuge of Last Resort |
| 12 September 2006 3:30 PM |
Svetlana Bachmann CIMMS and NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory |
How RADAR Confuses MAN: Spectral Processing for the Polarimetric Weather Radar Data with Multiple Processes in a Resolution Volume |
| 07 September 2006 3:30 PM |
Judy Gray Deputy Director, NOAA/OAR/Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, Florida |
Pandemic Influenza: What to Expect and How to Plan |
| 05 September 2006 3:30 PM |
David Schultz*, Katharine Kanak&, and Jerry Straka# *CIMMS and NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory &CIMMS #School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma |
What Causes Mammatus? |
| 29 August 2006 3:30 PM |
David Karoly School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma |
A Brief History of Detection and Attribution of Climate Change |
| 22 August 2006 3:30 PM |
Fred Carr et al. School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma |
School of Meteorology Welcome Back Seminar |
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