- RAL Seminar Series Archive
2007 Seminars
Tuesday, 6 February 2007, FL-2, Room 1001, 10:30 a.m.
Research Issues for the Next Generation of Air
Traffic Management - Weather (ATM-Wx) Products
Jimmy Krozel
Senior Engineer, Metron Aviation, Inc., Herndon, VA
Wednesday, 14 February 2007, FL-2, Room 1001, 3:30 p.m.
Automatic Parameter Estimation in Data Assimilation without Ensembles
Greg Duane
NCAR Visiting Scientist
Monday, 26 February 2007, FL-2, Room 1022, 1:30 p.m.
Fuzzy Forecast Verification of High Resolution Spatial Forecasts
Beth Ebert
Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia
Wednesday, 28 March 2007, FL-2, Room 1022, 1:30 p.m.
Clouds, Precipitation, and the Flow of Air Within and Past Mountainous Terrain
Matthias Steiner
NCAR/RAL
Wednesday, 20 June 2007, FL-2, Room 1001, 9:00 a.m.
Climate Services: The Temperature is Rising but So are the Opportunities
John F. Henz
HDR Engineering, Inc.
Thursday, 26 July 2007, FL-2, Room 1001, 10:00 a.m.
The National Mosaic and Q2 (NMQ) System: A next-Generation Source for Multi-sensor Quantitative Precipitation Estimates (QPE)
Steve Vasiloff
Hydromet Research Group, NSSL
2006 Seminars
Wednesday, 3 May 2006, FL-2, Room 1022, 3:00 p.m.
Boundary-layer Turbulence in Atmospheric Models - Exposing Models to Observations
Gunilla Svensson, Associate Professor
CIRES Visiting Fellow
University of Colorado, CIRES
Monday, 15 May 2006, FL-2, Room 1001, 3:00 p.m.
A New Bulk Microphysical Parameterization in MM5 and WRF and What's So Bad with the Old Scheme Anyway?
Greg Thompson, Associate Scientist
NCAR/RAL
Tuesday, 24 October 2006, FL-2, Room 1022, 3:00 p.m.
ARMOR: An Ultimate Nowcasting Based on the Correction of Phase and Amplitude Errors in Numerical Models
GyoWon Lee
Advanced Study Program/Research Applications Laboratory
2005 Seminars
| Date: | 5 January 2005 |
| Speaker: | Larry Winter |
| Title: | TIMES Seminar |
| Time: | 3:00 p.m. |
| Place: | Mesa Lab, Damon Room |
| Date: | 5 January 2005 |
| Speaker: | Russ Schumacher |
| Title: | Organization and Environmental Properties of Extreme-Rain-Producing Mesoscale Convective Systems |
| Time: | 3:30 p.m. |
| Place: | FL-2 Auditorium, Room 1022 |
| Date: | 16 March 2005 |
| Speaker: | Andrew Crook |
| Title: | Numerical Prediction of Thunderstorms. Where Are We Now? |
| Time: | 3:30 p.m. |
| Place: | FL-2 Auditorium, Room 1022 |
| Date: | 30 March 2005 |
| Speaker: | Juanzhen Sun |
| Title: | Use of Radar Observations to Improve Numerical Prediction of Convective Storms |
| Time: | 3:30 p.m. |
| Place: | FL-2 Auditorium, Room 1022 |
| Date: | 6 April 2005 |
| Speaker: | Alexei Korolev |
| Title: | Relative Humidity in Liquid, Mixed Phase and Ice Clouds from In-situ Measurements |
| Time: | 3:30 p.m. |
| Place: | FL-2 Auditorium, Room 1022 |
| Date: | 3 May 2005 |
| Speaker: | Sophie Violette |
| Title: | Long-term hydrodynamic response induced by past climatic and geomorphologic forcing: the case of the Paris basin, France |
| Time: | 1:30 p.m. |
| Place: | FL-2, Room 1001 |
| Date: | 5 July 2005 |
| Speaker: | Dr. Robert Atlas |
| Title: | Observing System Simulation Experiments and Model Development Activities at the Goddard Laboratory for Atmospheres |
| Time: | 3:30 p.m. |
| Place: | FL-2, Auditorium Room 1022 |
| Date: | 23 August 2005 |
| Speaker: | Barbara Brown |
| Title: | Object-based Evaluation of Weather Forecasts: Overview and Approach |
| Time: | 3:30 p.m. |
| Place: | FL-2 Auditorium Room 1022 |
| Date: | 19 October 2005 |
| Speaker: | Paul Field |
| Title: | Mid-Latitude Cyclones: Mesoscale to Microscale |
| Time: | 3:30 p.m. |
| Place: | FL-2 Auditorium Room 1022 |
| Date: | 8 November 2005 |
| Speaker: | Arunas Kuciauskas |
| Title: | Operational High-Resolution Aerosol Optical Depth Retrievals Over Water using AVHRR, MODIS and GOES Visible Channels |
| Time: | 3:30 p.m. |
| Place: | FL-3, Boom 2072 |
2004 Seminars
Formal Seminar
| Date: | 22 March 2004 |
| Speaker: | Alan Seed |
| Title: | A Stochastic Ensemble Prediction System |
| Time: | 10:00 a.m. |
| Place: | FL-2 Auditorium |
Water Cycle Initiative Seminar
| Date: | 6 April 2004 |
| Speaker: | Mikhail Ovtchinnikov |
| Title: | Evaluation of the Multi-Scale Modeling Framework Using Data from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program |
| Time: | 11:00 a.m. |
| Place: | FL-2, Room 1022 |
Formal RAL Seminar
| Date: | 7 April 2004 |
| Speaker: | Fei Chen |
| Title: | Effects of Surface Heterogeneity on the Evolution of PBL and Precipitation |
| Time: | 3:00 p.m. |
| Place: | FL-2, Room 1001 |
Water Cycle Initiative Seminar
| Date: | 14 April 2004 |
| Speaker: | Dr. Kenneth Mitchell |
| Title: | Land-surface Modeling Takes Root in NCEP Operational Weather and Climate Models: The multi-disciplinary development of land-surface/hydrology modeling and land data assimilation at NCEP via multi-institution partnerships |
| Time: | 10:00 a.m. |
| Place: | FL-2, Room 1001 |
RAL Seminar Series
| Date: | 4 June 2004 |
| Speaker: | Daran L. Rife |
| Title: | Insights in the Predictability of Near-surface Wind Field Forecasts by Mesoscale Meteorological Models |
| Time: | 3:30 p.m. |
| Place: | FL-2, Room 1022 |
Water Cycle Initiative Seminars
| Date: | 7 June 2004 |
| Speaker: | Alan Betts |
| Title: | Understanding Hydrometeorology Using Global Models |
| Time: | 11:00 a.m. |
| Place: | Mesa Lab Main Seminar Room |
| Date: | 9 June 2004 |
| Speaker: | Alan Betts |
| Title: | Diurnal Cycle Over Land |
| Time: | 3:30 p.m. |
| Place: | FL-2, Room 1022 |
RAL Seminar Series
| Date: | 28 June 2004 |
| Speaker: | David S. Nolan |
| Title: | Mechanics and Efficiency of Tropical Cyclone Intensification |
| Time: | 10:00 a.m. |
| Place: | FL-3, Room 2072 |
| Date: | 29 September 2004 |
| Speaker: | Gerard Held |
| Title: | Characterization of Storm Types During a 30-Hour Period of Radar Observations During the "Dry-To-Wet Atmospheric Mesoscale Campaign" of the LBA in 2002 |
| Place: | FL-2, Auditorium, Room 1022 |
| Date: | 13 October 2004 |
| Speaker: | Peter J. Webster |
| Title: | Development of Holistic Climate Prediction Systems: The South Asia-Bangladesh Example |
| Place: | FL-2 Auditorium, Room 1022 |
| Date: | 9 December 2004 |
| Speaker: | Phil Chadwick |
| Title: | Weather through the Eyes of Artists - Featuring Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven |
| Place: | FL-2 Auditorium, Room 1022 |
2003 Seminars
Informal Seminar
Date: 6 January 2003 (Monday)
Speaker: Matt Pocernich
Title: Application of Extreme Value
Theory and Threshold Models
to Hydrological Events
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Place: FL-2, Room 1001
Formal Seminar
Date: 25 February 2003 (Tuesday)
Speaker: Barbara Casati
Title: A New Threshold-scale
Approach for the Verification of Spatial Precipitation
Forecasts
Time: 1:30 p.m.
Place: FL-2, Room 1001
2002 Seminars
Formal Seminar
Date: February 6 (Wednesday)
Speaker: Hatim O. Sharif
Title: Impact of Radar Rainfall Estimation
Errors on Distributed Hydrologic
Model Predictions: A Simulation
Framework
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Place: FL-2, Auditorium, Room 1022
Formal Seminar
Date: April 10 (Wednesday)
Speaker: David Yates
Title: Evaluating Effects of Climate Change and Other Stressors on Freshwater
Ecosystem Goods and Services of the San Francisco Bay Watershed
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Place: FL-2, Auditorium, Room 1022
Formal Seminar
Date: May 1 (Wednesday)
Speaker: Kevin Stewart, PE - Manager, Information Systems and Flood Warning Program
Title:
Flood-warning program of the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Place: FL-2, Auditorium, Room 1022
Formal Seminar
Date: June 12 (Wednesday)
Speakers: Alexander Praskovsky and Eleanor Praskovskaya
Title: Application of the UCAR-STARS Method to the MU Radar:
The First Results
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Place: FL-2, Auditorium, Room 1022
Formal Seminar
Date: September 12 (Thursday)
Speaker: Olivier Michielin
Title: Modeling of Complex Systems:
Application to Cancer Therapy
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Place: FL-1 Atrium
Formal Seminar
Date: September 25, 2002 (Wednesday)
Speaker: Claudia Tebaldi
Title: From "Ensemble Spread" to
Confidence in the Forecasts
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Place: FL-2, Room 1001
Formal Seminar
Date: November 13, 2002 (Wednesday)
Speaker: Hatim O. Sharif
Title: Distributed Hydrologic Modeling
in the Southern Great Plains
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Place: FL-2, Room 1022 (auditorium)
2001 Seminars
JANUARY
Informal Seminar
Date: Jan 5 (Friday)
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Place: FL-3, Room 2072
Speaker: 2 students
Title: Talk on instrumentation at Mt. Washington
Formal Seminar
Date: Jan. 24 (Wednesday)
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Place: FL-2, Auditorium Room 1022
Speaker: J. Vivekanandan
Title: Dual-frequency Radar Studies of Supercooled
Liquid Droplets
Formal Seminar
Date: Jan. 31 (Wednesday)
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Place: FL-2 Auditorium Room 1022
Speaker: Ed Brandes
Title: Studies in Rainfall Estimation with
Polarimetric Radar: Preliminary Results for Florida
FEBRUARY
Formal Seminar
Date: February 21 (Wednesday)
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Place: FL-2, Auditorium Room 1022
Speaker: Tom Warner
Title: Ensemble Atmospheric Model Simulations
in Support of an Analysis of Gulf War
Exposures to Toxic Materials
Formal Seminar
Date: February 28 (Wednesday)
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Place: FL-2, Auditorium Room 1022
Speaker: Roy Rasmussen
Title: The Estimation of Snowfall
Rate Using Visibility
MARCH
Formal Seminar
Date: March 7 (Wednesday)
Speaker: Fei Chen
Title: Mesoscale land-surface/atmosphere
interactions
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Place: FL-2, Auditorium Room 1022
APRIL:
Formal Seminar
Date: April 4 (Wednesday)
Speaker: Andrew Weekley
Title: A Novel Approach to Outlier Detection:
The Intelligent Outlier Detection Algorithm (IODA)
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Place: FL-2, Auditorium Room 1022
Formal Seminar (RAP/GTP)
Date: April 11 (Wednesday)
Speaker: Larry Cornman
Place: FL-2, Auditorium Room 1022
Title: Invariance Properties of Tensors
in Turbulence Theory -- Application to Non-Cartesian Coordinates
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Place: FL-2, Auditorium Room 1022
MAY:
Formal Seminar
Date: May 9 (Wednesday)
Speaker: Jennifer Cram
Title: A Mesoscale RT-FDDA System: Rationale,
Description and Results
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Place: FL-2, Auditorium Room 1022
Informal Seminar
Date: May 24 (Thursday)
Speaker: Bill Mahoney
Title: Winter Road Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS)
Time: 11:00 a.m.
Place: RAP Conference Room
Formal Seminar
Date: May 30 (Wednesday)
Speaker: Todd Lane
Title: Gravity waves, wave breaking, and
turbulence in the vicinity of deep convection
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Place: FL-2, Auditorium Room 1022
JUNE:
Formal Semianr (Joint ATD/RAP)
Date: June 12, 2001
Speaker: Cathy Kessinger
Title: The AP clutter mitigation scheme, Part 1: The radar echo
classifier
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Place: FL-2 Auditorium, Room 1022
SEPTEMBER:
Formal Seminar
Date: September 5 (Wednesday)
Speaker: Alain Caya
Title: Radar data assimilation with a cloud-resolving
model as a weak constraint
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Place: FL-2 Auditorium Room 1022
OCTOBER:
Formal Seminar
Date: October 31 (Wednesday)
Speaker: Daran L. Rife
Title: Diurnal boundary layer circulations
in the Great Basin Desert
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Place: FL-2, Room 1001
2000 Seminars
Formal Seminar
Date: Dec. 5, 2000 (Tuesday)
Time: 1:30 p.m.
Place: FL-2, Room 1001
Speaker: Christopher Daly, Spatial Climate Analysis Service, Oregon
State University
Title: The PRISM Approach to Mapping Climate
in Complex Regions
Formal Seminar
Date: Dec. 11, 2000 (Monday)
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Place: FL-2, Auditorium Room 1022
Speaker: Sandy Dance, Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, Melbourne,
Australia
Title: An Agent Network for Microburst Detection