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Upcoming
Seminars are located in CCRC seminar room unless otherwise indicated.
Recent
Dr Jatin Kala
CCRC
Surface influences on Planetary Boundary Layer development in southwest Western Australia.
Wednesday 18th April.
Dr Nicolas Jourdain
CCRC
Origin of the interannual variability of the tropical cyclone activity in the South West Pacific
Monday 16th April.
Dr Lluis Fita Borrell
CCRC
From case studies to Regional climate modeling, some highlights
Wednesday 11th April.
Prof Herbert Huppert
Cambridge University
Mitigating Climate Change: Carbon Dioxide Sequestration
Wednesday 4th April.
Dr Ruth Lorenz
ETH
Land-climate feedbacks and climate extremes in a regional climate model
Monday 2nd April.
Dr Daniel Argueso
CCRC
High-resolution projections of climate change over the Iberian Peninsula
Wednesday 28th March.
Dr Stephanie Waterman
National Oceanography Centre and the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London
Eddy-Mean Flow Interactions in an Unstable Jet: A new perspective based on eddy shape and propagation
Wednesday 14th March.
Dr David Karoly
University of Melbourne
Evaluating global climate responses to different forcings using simple indices
Tuesday 13th March.
Dr Alex Pezza
University of Melbourne
Recent developments on explosive cyclones, blocking and heat waves
Wednesday 29th February.
Dr Jim Sallinger
Climate Change: Decision making at the crossroads
Monday 20th February.
Dr Patrick Nunn
University of New England
Recent and Future Sea-Level Changes in the Pacific Islands: Implications for their Human Inhabitants
Wednesday 15th February.
Dr Ruediger Gerdes
Alfred Wegener Institute
Declining Arctic sea ice: Causes and consequences
Wednesday 8th February.
Dr Daniel Hernandez-Deckers
Impact of the warming pattern on global atmospheric energetics
Wednesday 7th December.
Dr Henk Dijkstra, Utrecht Universit - A nonlinear theory of Kuroshio path variability Thursday 1st December.
Prof Tim Bralower
Pennsylvania State University
Wednesday 23rd November.
Dr Erik Van Sebille
CCRC
The global ocean circulation on both eddy-resolving and millennial scales
Wednesday 9th November.
Dr Maxim Nikurashin
Dissipation of geostrophic eddies and mixing in the Southern Ocean
Wednesday 2nd November.
Dr Agus Santoso
Post Doctoral Research Fellow, CCRC
Indo-Pacific Feedback Interactions and ENSO Dynamics
Wednesday 26th October.
Dr Shayne McGregor
Post Doctoral Research Fellow, CCRC
Wind forcing of past and future regional sea level trends in the Indo-Pacific
Wednesday 19th October.
Dr Paul Spence
Post Doctoral Research Fellow, CCRC
Towards an Australian high resolution ocean climate model: Mesoscale effects on the deep ocean circulation
Wednesday 12th October.
Prof. Steve Sherwood
All-hands update on CCRC and UNSW stuff
Wednesday 5th October.
Michael Grose and Nathan Bindoff
ACE CRC
Climate Futures work at the ACE CRC – applying regional climate change projections to applied fields
Wednesday 31st August.
Matthew Huber
Purdue University
Progress on the Eocene Equable Climate Problem and What This Means for Future Climate Change
Wednesday 17th August.
Gregory Price
University of Plymouth
Using brachiopods and isotopes to evaluate CO2 as a driver of Mesozoic-Cenozoic climate change
Wednesday 10th August.
Seyed Shahrokhi
Scale issues: From observations to models Scale issues: From observations to models
Friday 5th August.
Ian Macadam
Simulating wheat yields in New South Wales using global climate model output
Friday 5th August.
Tristan Sasse
A new technique to diagnose oceanic carbon dioxide uptake
Thursday 4th August.
Penny Maher
An investigation into how the treatment of cumulus parameterisation can improve simulations of atmospheric variability
Thursday 4th August.
Alejandro Silva
Changes in the Walker circulation cell between El Niño and El Niño Modoki and their impacts in South American Rainfall
Thursday 4th August. Linden Ashcroft
Melbourne University
The historical climate of southeastern Australia, 1788–1910
Wednesday 27th July.
Wojciech Grabowski
NCAR
Atmospheric aerosols, cloud microphysics and climate
Thursday 14th July.
Wojciech Grabowski
NCAR
Numerical modeling of multiscale atmospheric flows: from cloud microscale to climate
Wednesday 13th July.
Nicolas Fauchereau
The Antarctic Oscillation seen through weather regimes
Friday 8th July.
Katie Brennan
Variable sea ice contributions to oxygen isotopes in seawater over glacial-interglacial cycles: a model investigation
Wednesday 6th July.
Jeremy Fyke
Simulation of the global coupled climate/ice sheet system over millennial timescales
Wednesday 6th July.
Nicholas Klingaman
Reading University
Climate drivers of inter-annual and decadal rainfall variability in Queensland
Wednesday 22nd June.
Jan Zika
CCRC
Heat, Moisture and Turbulence: Can one plot tell you everything you want
to know about your Climate Model
Wednesday 8th June. Steven Phipps (CCRC)
TBA
Wednesday 25th May, 2pm
Robin Robertson
UNSW ADFA
Vertical mixing: the Inside Story
Wednesday 18th May.
Robin Robertson
UNSW ADFA
Vertical Mixing: The Inside Story
Wednesday 27th April.
Gregoire Mariethoz
UNSW
TBA
Wednesday 20th April.
Ming Feng
CSIRO
Multi-decadal trends of ocean circulation in the southeast Indian Ocean
Tuesday 19th April.
Roger Davies
University of Auckland
Satellite Observations of Cloud Height: Teleconnections and Implications for Climate Modelling
Friday 15th April.
Mat Collins
University of Exeter
El Nino, Climate Change and Uncertainties in Climate Projections
Monday 11th April.
Matthew Jones
University of Nottingham
Data based models of lake Oxygen isotope variability
Friday 8th April.
Markus Donat
CCRC
TBA
Wednesday 6th April.
Mark Decker
CCRC
Improving the Hydrological Cycle in Land Surface Climate Models
Wednesday 30th March.
Tord Kjellstrom
ANU NCEPH
Methods to study Climate change impacts on the health and productivity of working people.
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Tuesday 29th March.
Angelika Werner
Macquarie University
Seasonal forecasting of Australian region tropical cyclones
Wednesday 23rd March.
Samantha Stevenson
University of Colorado
ENSO's Known Unknowns: Quantifying Errors in Data/Model Comparison
Wednesday 16th March.
Ben McNeil
CCRC
Insights into Coastal ocean CO2 uptake and its
influence on the atmosphere: A large unknown for the modern global carbon budget
Wednesday 9th March.
PhD seminars
Wednesday 23rd February.
10:00 Greetings
10:10 Tim Leslie
10:30 Graham Simpkins
10:50 Tim Cowan
11:10 Francia Avila
11:30 Kat Bormann
11:50 Bevan Warren
Jim Salinger
University of Tasmania
Observed and projected changes
in tropical Pacific surface climate
Monday 14th February.
Oleg Saenko
CCCma
Subduction and overturning in a warmer ocean
Thursday 3rd February.
Andrew Herries
UNSW
Combined palaeomagnetic, uranium-lead and stable
isotope analysis of Plio-Pleistocene South African speleothems as a tool for understanding the interactions between palaeoenvironment,
palaeoclimate, geomagentic field change and human evolution
Wednesday 2nd February.
Jan Zika
Laboratoire des écoulements géophysiques et industriels
Modelling the Southern Ocean: Four surprising results
Monday 13th December.
Gab Abramowitz
CCRC
Model dependence and chaos in climate prediction
Wednesday 8th December.
Joe Kidston
CCRC
Poleward shifting westerlies: causes and consequences
Wednesday 24th November.
Jun-Ichi Yano
Meteo France
An introduction
to mass-flux convection parameterization
Wednesday 17th November.
James Screen
University of Melbourne
Exploring the causes of recent Arctic
temperature amplification
Tuesday 16th November.
Naomi Oreskes
University of
California
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured
the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
Monday 15th November.
Charles Eriksen
University of Washington
Resolving Eddies to Detect Seasonal & Interannual Flows in the Ocean with High Endurance Gliders
Friday 12th November.
Steve Pekar
City University of New York
The
Development of the Antarctic Cryosphere During the Cenozoic: When did
the Ice Sheet Cometh?
Monday 8th November.
Dave Thompson
Colorado State University
Understanding variability in global mean surface temperature
Wednesday 3rd November.
Vincent Rossi
Coastal Oceanography Group
Influence of mesoscale physical processes on planktonic ecosystems in
the regional ocean: application to the Eastern Boundary Upwelling
Systems
Wednesday 27th October.
Joe Kidston
CCRC
Global warming; what's the
big deal?
Wednesday 20th October.
Mick Ashcroft
Australian Museum and UNSW Australian Wetlands and Rivers Centre
Predicting Species’ Responses to Climate Change at the Regional Scale
Wednesday 22nd September.
Caroline Ummenhofer
CCRC
Eastern Indian Ocean
Variability – Local versus Remote Factors
Wednesday 15th September.
Trevor McDougall
Seawater Thermodynamics, Neutral Surfaces and Ocean mixing processes
Monday 13th September.
Peter Rayner
CO2 observations from space, status and plans
Wednesday 1st September.
Sarah Perkins
Evaluation and 21st century projections of the CMIP3 models over Australia
Thursday 26th August.
Michael Reeder
Monash University
Partitioning the Tropical Overturning Circulation.
Monday 9th August
Dave Bi
CAWCR/CSIRO
Performance of the Australian Climate Ocean Model (AusCOM) and the Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator (ACCESS) Coupled Model in Simulating the World Ocean Climate.
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Wednesday 28th July
Suraje Dessai
University of Exeter
Robust adaptation to climate change.
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Monday 28th June
Stephen H. Schneider
Stanford University
Global Warming: Motivating Game Changing Actions in an Era of Spin and Confusion.
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Wednesday 23rd June
Carolina Roman
Monash University
Climate Change adaptation - a reflection on scientists and their role(s).
Wednesday 16th June
Laura Ciasto
CCRC
Observations of Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction in the Extratropical Southern Hemisphere.
Wednesday 2nd June
Alex Sen Gupta
CCRC
Global Warming and the Tropical Pacific Ocean.
Wednesday 19th May
Vanessa Haverd
CSIRO
Wednesday 16th May
Agus Santoso
CCRC
The role of the Indonesian
Throughflow on ENSO dynamics.
Wednesday 28th April
Seth Westra
CVEN/UNSW
Seasonal forecasting of precipitation - is there an upper limit to predictability?
Wednesday 21st April
Donna Green
CCRC
Screw Light Bulbs: smarter solutions to tackle climate change.
Wednesday 31st March
Paul Spence
CCRC
Coarse versus eddy-permitting global climate simulations of the Southern Ocean.
Wednesday 24th March
Larry Dwyer and Ray Spurr
Australia's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS): Impacts on the Tourism Industry.
Wednesday 17th March
Mathew Wells
University of Toronto
Influence of the
Coriolis force on the dynamics of gravity currents.
Monday 8th March
Robert Woodham
Selecting Forecast Strategies for the East Australian Current.
Wednesday 3rd March
Paul Spence
CCRC
Wednesday 24th February
Andy Baker
Stalagmites and palaeoclimates.
Wednesday 17th February
Katrin Meissner
CCRC
What is the radiocarbon record trying to tell us?
Wednesday 3rd February
Erich Fischer
ETH Zurich
Quantifying uncertainties in projections of climate extremes - a perturbed land surface parameter experiment
Tuesday 8th December
Tom Knutson
GFDL
Atlantic Hurricanes and Climate Change.
Monday 7th December
Nicholas Herold
University of Sydney
Middle Miocene climate modelling.
Wednesday 2nd December
Steve Siems
Monash
Southern Ocean Clouds and Cloud Seeding over Tasmania.
Thursday 26th November
Garry Willgoose
University of Newcastle
The persistence of soil moisture patterns and its potential importance in estimating spatially distributed latent heat fluxes: a hydrological(modelling) perspective.
Wednesday 18th November
Anna Gero
ATRC-NHRL
Community based Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction.
Tuesday 10th November
Willem Sijp
CCRC
Some aspects of AMOC stability.
Wednesday 4th November
Steven Phipps
CCRC
What do past climate really tell us about El Nino?
Wednesday 28th October
Andrea Taschetto
CCRC
El Nino Modoki and its impacts on Australian rainfall.
Wednesday 21st October
Phil Arkin
University of Maryland (USA)
Observing the global hydrological cycle: Uncertainties and Projections.
Wednesday 30th September
Michael Bates
CCRC
Preliminary results from two ongoing projects: musings on equatorialwaves and oceanic overflows.
Thursday 24th September
Penny Whetton
CSIRO
National climate change projections: history and possible future directions.
Friday 18th September.
Ben McNeil
CCRC
Ocean acidification in a high CO2 world: From labs and models to the real world.
Thursday 3rd September.
Joe Santanello
NASA
A modelling and observational framework for diagnosing local land-atmosphere coupling on diurnal time scales.
Monday 31st August.
Majed Radhi
Size-Resolved Physics and Chemistry of Australian Mineral Dust Aerosol.
Wednesday 26th August.
Christa Peters-Lidard
NASA
Opportunities and Challenges in Land Data Assimilation.
Friday 21st August.
Steven Sherwood
CCRC
Variations in Atmospheric Convective Vigour.
Wednesday 19th August.
Matthew England
CCRC
Oceanic drivers of Australian rainfall vairiability.
Wednesday 12th August.
Klaus Keller
Penn State, USA
Abrupt Climate Change: Would We See It Coming Early Enough.
Monday 10th August.
Jason Evans
CCRC
Regional Climate modelling of SE Australia with WRF - ongoing research.
Wednesday 5th August.
Marc d'Orgeville
CCRC
Equatorial dynamics, decadal variability and abrupt climate change.
Thursday 30th July.
Gab Abramowitz
CCRC
Model independence and techniques for identifying model structure weaknesses
Thursday 16th July.
Adam Monahan
Empirical Orthogonal Functions: The Medium is the Message.
Friday 10th July.
Andy Pitman
CCRC
Results from LUCID - where next?
Wednesday 1st July.
Lisa Alexander
CCRC
The influence of sea surface temperature variability on global temperature and precipitation extremes.
Thursday 25th June.
Dietmar Dommenget
IFM-GEOMAR
Three Arguments Against the Indian Ocean Dipole Mode.
Thursday 18th June.
A/Professor Jeremy Bailey
School of Physics, UNSW
Venus and Earth: The Climates of Twin Planets.
Thursday 4th June.
Michael Town
Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement, France
The surface energy budget at South Pole, Antarctica, from observations and a regional model.
Tuesday 25th May.
Joseph Kidston
Climate Dynamics Victoria University of Wellington and The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
On the Dynamical mechanism of Annular Modes and the Cause if the Poleward Shift of the jet Streams Under Global Warming.
Tuesday 26th May.
Hongyan Zhu
Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne
Convection in a parametrized and super-parametrized model and its role in the representation of the MJO.
Tuesday 26th May.
Dr Michael Molitor
CCRC Adjunct
Climate change and the capital markets.
Thursday 9th April.
Axel Timmermann
IPRC, Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii at Manoa, HI. USA
Global Teleconnections of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
Monday 16th March.
Dr Oleg Saenko
Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis
On the climate impact on wind stress
Friday 6th February.
Dr Martyn Clark
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric research
Gaining confidence in hydrological stimulations: An alternative research strategy for the development and application of hydrological models.
Friday 6th February.
Dr Shayne McGregor
Macquarie University
The role of extra- tropical to tropical Pacific Ocean exchanges in the variability of ENSO
Monday 2nd February.
Dr Kieran Helm
University of Tasmania
Global water mass changes: observation and interpretation.
Thursday 29th January.
Dr Olivier Arzel
CCRC
A possible origin of the instability of glacial climates.
Tuesday 27th January.
Dr Caroline Ummenhofer
CCRC
Regional rainfall variability linked to Indian Ocean SST - Mechanisms and implications for forecasting.
Monday 11th August.
Professor Hoshin Gupta
Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, USA.
1. Reconciling theory with observations: elements of a diagnostic approach to model evaluation
2. Model structure identification and correction through data assimilation.
Tuesday 5th August.
Professor Johnny Chan
Director of the Guy Carpenter Asia-Pacific Climate Impact Centre, Universitry of Hong Kong. Global Warming and Tropical Cyclone Activity in the Western North Pacific
Monday 4th August.
Dr Laura Ciasto
Colorado State University, USA.
Mechanisms of observed sea surface temperature variability in the extratropical Southern Hemisphere.
Thursday 3rd July.
Professor Steven Sherwood
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Recent progress toward understanding atmospheric feedbacks on global climate
Monday 16th June.
Michael Bates
CCRC
Lagrangian blobs of buoyancy embedded in Eulerian models: a method to parameterise vertical and downslope motion of gravitationally unstable water parcels.
Friday 6th June.
Dr Michael Molitor
Climate Change - Show me the money?
Wednesday 23rd April.
Dr Molitor's presentation can viewed on UNSWTV
Dr Frank Drost
Research Fellow, CCRC, UNSW.
Spatial aspects of the Southern Annular Mode
Tuesday 22nd April.
Dr Julien Le Sommer
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Grenoble, France.
On the use and significance of Ertels potential vorticity budgets in physical oceanography.
Wednesday 2nd April.
Nick Cutler
Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, UNSW.
Predicting changes in wind energy output utilising information from Numerical Weather Prediction systems.
Tuesday 4th March.
Professor Peter Baines
Professorial Fellow, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Melbourne, Vic, 3010. QUEST Visiting Scientist, Department of Earth Sciences, Bristol, UK.
Decadal variability in rainfall and the Hadley circulation and downslope flows in the ocean - plumes versus gravity currents.
Wednesday 27th February.
Dr Rosemary Morrow
LEGOS/OMP Toulouse, France.
Southern Ocean eddy heat and salt fluxes observed by satellite and in-situ data.
Monday 11th February.
Professor Chris Reason
Oceanography Department, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Indian Ocean climate variability.
Monday 4th February.
Professor David Thompson
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, USA.
Understanding recent trends in atmospheric temperatures.
Wednesday 30th January.
2007
Dr Ben McNeil
CCRC
The Importance of the Southern Ocean in Controlling Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
Thursday 29th November.
Dr Stephen Griffies
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Princeton, NJ, USA.
Status of ocean model development at GFDL.
Tuesday 6th November.
Dr Kirsten Findell
Visiting Scientist from The Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Princeton, NJ, USA.
Climatic Impacts of Land Cover Change: Experiments with the GFDL model.
Wednesday 26th September.
Dr Jason Evans
Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales.
Understanding, monitoring and predicting change in land use and climate of the Middle East.
Thursday 30th August.
Professor John P. Burrows
Department of Physics and Chemistry, Atmosphere Institute of Environmental Physics and Remote Sensing, University of Bremen, Germany.
Remote sensing of Atmospheric trace gases from GOME and SCIAMACHY.
Tuesday 21st August.
LCDR Robert H. Woodham
School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, UNSW@ADFA, Canberra.
Investigations of oceanic predictability using the BLUElink ocean forecasting system.
Thursday 9th August.
Professor Stefan Rahmstorf
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
Are we underestimating sea level rise?
Tuesday 7th August.
Dr Michael Box
School of Physics, UNSW.
The Role of Atmospheric Aerosols in the Earth System.
Thursday 7th June.
Dr Robin Robertson
School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, Australian Defence Force Academy, UNSW.
Tides: A new view of an old problem.
Friday 1st June.
Sian Grigg
Department of Physical Geography, Macquarie University.
A new box model for climate studies.
Thursday 24th May.
Amy Braverman
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA.
Analysis of massive, remote sensing data sets collected by mission teams at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and NASA.
Friday 27th April.
Jessica Kleiss
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego.
Airborne observations of breaking waves: implications for air-sea interactions.
Monday 23rd April.
Till Kuhlbrodt
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany.
Risks of a weakening of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation.
Wednesday 18th April.
Sabine Mecking
Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington Seattle, USA.
Decadal variability in the North Pacific thermocline diagnosed from oxygen measurements: An update based on the CLIVAR/CO2 Repeat Hydrography
Monday 19th March.
Thierry Penduff
Laboratoire des Ecoulements Geophysiques et Industriels, UJF-CNRS
1958-2004 1/4-degree global ocean/sea-ice DRAKKAR simulation.
Friday 9th March.
Frederic Dias
Centre de Mathematiques et de Leurs Applications (CLMA), ENS-CACHAN, France.
Modeling of extreme hydrodynamic waves.
Tuesday 27th February.
Nicole Lovenduski
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Services, University of California.
Impact of the Southern Annular Mode on the Southern Ocean Carbon Cycle.
Tuesday 13th February.
2006
Paul Spence
University of Victoria, Canada.
The influence of mesoscale eddies and boundary currents on surface freshwater forcings used to drive MOC variations.
Friday 8th December.
Asst. Prof. Geno Pawlak
Deptartment of Ocean and Resources Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA.
Boundary Layer Processes over Rough Beds at the Kilo Nalu Observatory
Thursday 7th December.
Pierre Mathiot
Laboratoire des Ecoulements Geophysiques et Industriels, Grenoble, France.
On the role of katabatic winds in the formation of Antarctic Bottom Waters.
Tuesday 28st November.
Katherine Hill
CSIRO/UTAS Quantitative Marine Science Program.
Dynamics of low frequency variability of the East Australian Current.
Tuesday 21st November.
Dr Alan Griffiths
CEDL/Department of Aviation, UNSW.
Separted 2D flow in a very-high-resolution atmospheric model.
Friday 3rd November.
Dr Agus Santoso
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, UNSW.
Antarctic Bottom Water variability in a coupled climate model.
Wednesday 1st November.
Dr Roderick Dewar
Laboratory of Functional Ecology and Environmental Physics, INRA Bordeaux, France.
Boltzmanns legacy: How statistical mechanics is bringing new insights to environmental science.
Tuesday 31 October.
Prof Claus Böning
Deputy-Head, Research Division Ocean Circulation and Climate Dynamics, Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences, Kiel University (IFM-GEOMAR).
Mechanisms of interannual-decadal variability of the Atlantic MOC.
Wednesday 25th October.
Pauline Treble
Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University.
Reconstructing southwest Australias natural rainfall variability for the past 1000 years using speleothem records.
Tuesday 24th October.
Dr David Griffin
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research.
BlueLink - Australias ocean prediction system.
Monday 25th September.
Dr Douglas MacMynowski
Senior Research Fellow, Control & Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology.
Applying feedback analysis tools from engineering control theory to climate dynamics: (1) Thermohaline circulation and (2) El Nino.
Thursday 21st September.
Joe Kidston
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Insitute, New Zealand.
ENSO teleconnections at high latitudes.
Monday 21st August.
Dr Moninya Roughan
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
Headland circulation, upwelling and larval retention.
Wednesday 16th August.
Phillipe Estrade
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
1. A two-dimensional expansion of Ekmans theory provides a mechanism for upwelling separation from the coast
2. Island wakes flows with upstream turbulence.
Wednesday 16th August.
Debbie Cox
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
Island Wakes - Field and numerical modelling results.
Wednesday 16th August.
Dr Julien Le Sommer
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
1. Estimating equatorial inertia-gravity wave activity in the stratosphere with ERA40 reanalysis.
2. The role of mesoscale turbulence on Antarctic Intermediate water formation.
Wednesday 16th August.
Dr Mark Baird
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
Coupled physical-biological modelling of the upwelling off central Chile.
Wednesday 16th August.
Dr Frank Drost
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
From NIWA to UNSW: Southern Hemisphere atmospheric variability.
Tuesday 15th August.
Maxwell Gonzalez
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
Antarctic bottom water variability: Properties and formation.
Tuesday 15th August.
Dr Olivier Arzel
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
Mechanisms of interdecadal variability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation.
Tuesday 15th August.
Dr Lixin Qi
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
A Climatological Study of Tropical Cyclones in Western Australia.
Tuesday 15th August.
Dr Andrea Taschetto
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
The effect of South Atlantic SSTs on precipitation over South America.
Tuesday 15th August.
Tina Donaldson
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
What is causing late twentieth century cooling and freshening of Antarctic Intermediate Water?
Tuesday 15th August.
Jessica Trevena
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
Can we turn off Antarctic Bottom Water?
Tuesday 15th August.
Jan Zika
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
Measuring vertical and lateral mixing in the open ocean using inverse models.
Tuesday 15th August.
Dr Steve Phipps
University of Tasmania.
Multi-millennial simulations of climate of the late Holocene.
Tuesday 15th August.
Dr Agus Santoso
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
Variability of Southern Ocean water masses in a climate model.
Monday 14th August.
Dr Willem Sijp
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
Stability of the Thermohaline Circulation.
Monday 14th August.
Alex Sen Gupta
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
The Southern Annular Mode, its effect on the ocean, and feedbacks to the atmosphere.
Monday 14th August.
Caroline Ummenhofer
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
Extratropical Southern Hemisphere Climate Variability and Rainfall in the Australian Region.
Monday 14th August.
Khalia Hill
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
Interannual rainfall variability over Australia.
Monday 14th August.
James Luffman
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
Indian Ocean control of Australian rainfall and climate variability.
Monday 14th August.
Dr Mark Baird
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, School of Mathematics, UNSW.
Why one bay in Chile produces 4% of the worlds fish take (and other stories from biological oceanographic modelling).
Thursday 3rd August.
Professor Chris Jones
Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina.
Float Trajectory Data and their Assimilation into Ocean Models.
Thursday 15th June.
Dr Kerstin Fieg
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar & Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany.
Fraim Strait exchange processes: model vs. measurements.
Thursday 23rd February.
2005
Professor Stefan Rahmstorf
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
Anthropogenic Climate Change: Re-examining the Evidence
Monday 19th December.
Dr Anne-Marie Treguier
Laboratoire de Physique des Oceans, IFREMER, France
Internal and forced variability along a section between Greenland and Portugal in the CLIPPER Atlantic model
Thursday 8th December.
Dr Mei-Man Lee
James Rennell Division for Ocean Circulation, Southampton Oceanography Centre
Eddy heat and salt transport in the Southern Ocean
Thursday 1st December.
Professor Matthias Tomczak
Flinders University of South Australia
Variations in Labrador Sea Water nitrate concentration deduced from hydrographic time series observations near Bermuda
Thursday 24th November.
Dr Richard D. Smith (co-author: Peter R. Gent)
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, USA
Anisotropic viscosity and Gent/McWilliams Parameterizations in Ocean Models
Friday 18th November.
Dr Ruediger Gerdes
Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven
Trends in North Atlantic properties and possible future developments
Friday 4th November.
Stephen Griffies
Head Oceans and Climate Group NOAA/GFDL/Princeton Visiting Scientist CSIRO-Marine and University of Tasmania
An overview of ocean models and modelling at NOAAs Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab
Tuesday 9th August.
Professor George Veronis
Yale University
Thermohaline circulation in a two-layer model with sloping boundaries
Friday 13th May.
Dr Darryn Waugh
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Johns Hopkins University
Stirring in the East Australia Current and Tasman Sea
Wednesday 23rd March.
Professor Stefan Rahmstorf
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam University, Germany
Abrupt climatic change: are the Pentagon and Hollywood right?
Monday 21st February.
Professor Oleg Saenko
Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis Victoria, CANADA
Southern Ocean: control of the global ocean circulation and projected changes
Thursday 3rd February.
2004
Stephanie Dupre
University of New South Wales
Latitude shifts in Southern Ocean westerly winds and their impact on past and present climate
Friday 29th October.
Michael Bates
University of New South Wales
The effect of enhanced Antarctic meltwater on global ocean circulation and climate
Friday 29th October.
Caroline Ummenhofer
University of New South Wales
Australian climate variability
Monday 27th September.
Professor Matthew England
University of New South Wales AMOS R H Clarke Lecture
Southern Hemisphere Ocean and Climate Variability
Thursday 23rd September.
Dr Gerd Folberth
Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis
Atmospheric Chemistry and the Biosphere - A Walk-through to Tropospheric Chemical Composition
Wednesday 15th September.
Jaci Brown
University of New South Wales
How water crosses the equatorial vorticity barrier in the eastern Pacific.
Monday 9th August.
Professor Chris Reason
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Interannual climate variability of the South Atlantic and South Indian Oceans
Tuesday 13th July.
Agus Santoso
University of New South Wales
Variability of Circumpolar Deep Water in a coupled climate model
Wednesday 12th May.
Professor Herbert Huppert
University of Cambridge, U.K.
Gravity currents: from hot lava flows through cool seabreezes to hazardous rockfalls
Thursday 18th March.
Willem Sijp
The University of New South Wales
Role of the Drake Passage in the global thermohaline circulation
Wednesday 10th March.
Dr Richard Matear
CSIRO Marine Research
The Oceanic Carbon Cycle in a Changing Climate.
Tuesday 4th March.
Dr Ben McNeil
The University of New South Wales
The Importance of the Oceanic Carbon Cycle: Past and Present
Tuesday 4th March.
2003
Dr Emily Pidgeon
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Observations of Diurnal Structures on the Central California Coast
Friday 12th December.
Dr Mark Baird
School of Mathematics, The University of New South Wales
A pelagic ecosystem model with bio-mechanical descriptions of biological processes in an idealised 2-D ocean basin
Thursday 14th August.
Agus Santoso
School of Mathematics, The University of New South Wales
Antarctic Intermediate Water Variability in a Coupled Climate Model
Wednesday 18th June.
Professor Johnny Chan
City University of Hong Kong, and Director, Shanghai Typhoon Institute
Potential vorticity tendency in tropical cyclone motion
Thursday 3rd July.
Dr Bill McKee
School of Mathematics, The University of New South Wales
The propagation of water waves across a shearing current
Wednesday 4th June.
Dr Ben McNeil
Princeton University
Inferring global carbon sinks using oceanic CFC measurements
Tuesday 27th May.
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