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Past CCRC Seminars Below is a list of archived seminars previously held at the UNSW's Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory. 2008 Dr Laura Ciasto
Mechanisms of observed sea surface temperature variability in the extratropical Southern Hemisphere.
Colorado State University, USA.
1pm Thursday 3rd July 2008, Rm 4082, Red Centre.
Professor Steven Sherwood
Recent progress toward understanding atmospheric feedbacks on global climate
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
1pm Monday 16th June 2008, Rm 4082, Red Centre.
Michael Bates
Lagrangian blobs of buoyancy embedded in Eulerian models: a method to parameterise vertical and downslope motion of gravitationally unstable water parcels.
Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW.
10am, Friday 6th June 2008, Rm 4082, Red Centre.
Dr Michael Molitor
7pm, 23 April, 2008 Science Theatre, UNSW
Dr Frank Drost
Spatial aspects of the Southern Annular Mode
Research Fellow, CCRC, UNSW.
3pm, 22 April, 2008 Room 3084, Red Centre.
Dr Julien Le Sommer
On the use and significance of Ertels potential vorticity budgets in physical oceanography.
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Grenoble, France.
1pm, Wednesday 2 April, Room 4082, Red Centre.
Nick Cutler
Predicting changes in wind energy output utilising information from Numerical Weather Prediction systems.
Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, UNSW.
2pm, Tuesday 4th March, Room 4082, Red Centre.
Professor Peter Baines
Decadal variability in rainfall and the Hadley circulation and downslope flows in the ocean - plumes versus gravity currents.
Professorial Fellow, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Melbourne, Vic, 3010. QUEST Visiting Scientist, Department of Earth Sciences, Bristol, UK.
11am, Wednesday 27th February, Room 4082, Red Centre.
Dr Rosemary Morrow
Southern Ocean eddy heat and salt fluxes observed by satellite and in-situ data.
LEGOS/OMP Toulouse, France.
11am, Monday 11th February, Room 4082, Red Centre.
Professor Chris Reason
Indian Ocean climate variability. Oceanography Department, University of Cape Town, South Africa
2pm, Monday 4th February 2008, Room 4082, Red Centre.
Professor David Thompson
Understanding recent trends in atmospheric temperatures.
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, USA.
11am, Wednesday 30th January 2008, Room 4082, Red Centre.
2007 Dr Ben McNeil
The Importance of the Southern Ocean in Controlling Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW.
11 am, Thursday 29th November 2007, Room 4082, Red Centre.
Dr Stephen Griffies
Status of ocean model development at GFDL.
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Princeton, NJ, USA.
11am, Tuesday 6th November 2007, Room 4082, Red Centre.
Dr Kirsten Findell
Climatic Impacts of Land Cover Change: Experiments with the GFDL model.
Visiting Scientist from The Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Princeton, NJ, USA.
11am, Wednesday 26th September 2007, Room 4082, Red Centre.
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.
11am, Thursday 30th August, 2007, Room 4082, Red Centre.
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.
1pm, Tuesday 21st August 2007, Room 4082, Red Centre.
Professor Stefan Rahmstorf
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
Are we underestimating sea level rise?
1pm, Tuesday 7th August, 2007, Room 4082, Red Centre.
LCDR Robert H. Woodham
School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, UNSW@ADFA, Canberra.
Investigations of oceanic predictability using the BLUElink ocean forecasting system.
11am, Thursday 9th August, 2007, Room 4082, Red Centre.
Dr Michael Box
School of Physics, UNSW.
The Role of Atmospheric Aerosols in the Earth System.
11am, Thursday 7th June, 2007, Room 4082, Red Centre.
Dr Robin Robertson
School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, Australian Defence Force Academy, UNSW.
Tides: A new view of an old problem.
12 noon, Friday 1st June, 2007, Room 4082, Red Centre.
Sian Grigg
Department of Physical Geography, Macquarie University.
A new box model for climate studies.
11am, Thursday 24th May, 2007, Room 4082, Red Centre.
Amy Braverman
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA.
Analysis of massive, remote sensing data sets collected by mission teams at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and NASA.
4pm, Friday 27th April, 2007, Room 4082, Red Centre.
Jessica Kleiss
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego.
Airborne observations of breaking waves: implications for air-sea interactions.
11am, Monday 23rd April, 2007, Room 4082, Red Centre.
Till Kuhlbrodt
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany.
Risks of a weakening of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation.
1pm, Wednesday 18th April, 2007. Room 4082, Red Centre.
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
11am, Monday 19th March, 2007. Room 4082, Red Centre.
Thierry Penduff
Laboratoire des Ecoulements Geophysiques et Industriels, UJF-CNRS
1958-2004 1/4-degree global ocean/sea-ice DRAKKAR simulation.
12noon, Friday 9th March, 2007. Room 4082, Red Centre.
Frederic Dias
Centre de Mathematiques et de Leurs Applications (CLMA), ENS-CACHAN, France.
Modeling of extreme hydrodynamic waves.
11am, Tuesday 27 February 2007, Room 4082, Red Centre.
Nicole Lovenduski
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Services, University of California.
Impact of the Southern Annular Mode on the Southern Ocean Carbon Cycle.
11am, Tuesday 13 February 2007, Room 4082, Red Centre.
2006 Paul Spence
University of Victoria, Canada.
The influence of mesoscale eddies and boundary currents on surface freshwater forcings used to drive MOC variations.
1 pm, Friday 8 December, Room 4082, Red Centre.
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
11am, Thursday 7 December, Room 4082, Red Centre.
Pierre Mathiot
Laboratoire des Ecoulements Geophysiques et Industriels, Grenoble, France.
On the role of katabatic winds in the formation of Antarctic Bottom Waters.
11am, Tuesday 28 November 2006, Room 4082, Red Centre.
Katherine Hill
CSIRO/UTAS Quantitative Marine Science Program.
Dynamics of low frequency variability of the East Australian Current.
12 noon, Tuesday 21 November 2006, Room 4082, Red Centre.
Dr Alan Griffiths
CEDL/Department of Aviation, UNSW.
Separted 2D flow in a very-high-resolution atmospheric model.
1pm, Friday 3 November 2006, Room 4082, Red Centre.
Dr Agus Santoso
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, UNSW.
Antarctic Bottom Water variability in a coupled climate model.
11am, Wednesday 1 November 2006, Room 4082, Red Centre.
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.
1pm, Tuesday 31 October 2006, Room 456, Bioscience Building.
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.
11am, Wednesday 25th October 2006, Room 4082, Red Centre.
Pauline Treble
Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University.
Tuesday 24th October 2006, Room 4082, Red Centre.
Reconstructing southwest Australias natural rainfall variability for the past 1000 years using speleothem records.
Dr David Griffin
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research.
Monday 25 September 2006, Room 4082, Red Centre.
BlueLink - Australias ocean prediction system.
Dr Douglas MacMynowski
Senior Research Fellow, Control & Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology.
Thursday 21st September 2006, Room 4082, Red Centre.
Applying feedback analysis tools from engineering control theory to climate dynamics: (1) Thermohaline circulation and (2) El Nino.
Joe Kidston
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Insitute, New Zealand.
Monday 21 August 2006, Room 4082, Red Centre.
ENSO teleconnections at high latitudes.
Dr Agus Santoso
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
Monday 14 August 2006.
Variability of Southern Ocean water masses in a climate model.
Dr Willem Sijp
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
Monday 14 August 2006.
Stability of the Thermohaline Circulation.
Alex Sen Gupta
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
Monday 14 August 2006.
The Southern Annular Mode, its effect on the ocean, and feedbacks to the atmosphere.
Caroline Ummenhofer
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
Monday 14 August 2006.
Extratropical Southern Hemisphere Climate Variability and Rainfall in the Australian Region.
Khalia Hill
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
Monday 14 August 2006.
Interannual rainfall variability over Australia.
James Luffman
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
Monday 14 August 2006.
Indian Ocean control of Australian rainfall and climate variability.
Dr Frank Drost
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
Tuesday 15 August 2006
From NIWA to UNSW: Southern Hemisphere atmospheric variability.
Maxwell Gonzalez
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
Tuesday 15 August 2006.
Antarctic bottom water variability: Properties and formation.
Dr Olivier Arzel
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
Tuesday 15 August 2006.
Mechanisms of interdecadal variability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation.
Dr Lixin Qi
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
Tuesday 15 August 2006.
A Climatological Study of Tropical Cyclones in Western Australia.
Dr Andrea Taschetto
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
Tuesday 15 August 2006.
The effect of South Atlantic SSTs on precipitation over South America.
Tina Donaldson
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
Tuesday 15 August 2006.
What is causing late twentieth century cooling and freshening of Antarctic Intermediate Water?
Jessica Trevena
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
Tuesday 15 August 2006.
Can we turn off Antarctic Bottom Water?
Jan Zika
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
Tuesday 15 August 2006.
Measuring vertical and lateral mixing in the open ocean using inverse models.
Dr Steve Phipps
University of Tasmania.
Tuesday 15 August 2006.
Multi-millennial simulations of climate of the late Holocene.
Dr Moninya Roughan
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
Wednesday 16 August 2006.
Headland circulation, upwelling and larval retention.
Phillipe Estrade
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
Wednesday 16 August 2006.
1. A two-dimensional expansion of Ekmans theory provides a mechanism for upwelling separation from the coast 2. Island wakes flows with upstream turbulence.
Debbie Cox
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
Wednesday 16 August 2006. Island Wakes - Field and numerical modelling results.
Dr Julien Le Sommer
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
Wednesday 16 August 2006.
1. Estimating equatorial inertia-gravity wave activity in the stratosphere with ERA40 reanalysis. 2. The role of mesoscale turbulence on Antarctic Intermediate water formation.
Dr Mark Baird
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of NSW.
Wednesday 16 August 2006.
Coupled physical-biological modelling of the upwelling off central Chile.
Dr Mark Baird
Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, School of Mathematics, UNSW.
Thursday 3rd August at 4.00pm in Room 456 Biological Sciences Building (D26).
Why one bay in Chile produces 4% of the worlds fish take (and other stories from biological oceanographic modelling).
Professor Chris Jones
Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina.
Thursday 15th June 2006 at the Red Center, Room RC-4082.
Float Trajectory Data and their Assimilation into Ocean Models.
Dr Kerstin Fieg
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar & Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany.
Thursday 23rd February 2006 at the Red Center, Room RC-4082.
Fraim Strait exchange processes: model vs. measurements.
2005 Professor Stefan Rahmstorf
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
Monday 19 December, 2005 at 4 pm Red Centre Theatre UNSW
Anthropogenic Climate Change: Re-examining the Evidence
Dr. Anne-Marie Treguier
Laboratoire de Physique des Oceans, IFREMER, France
Thursday 8th December, 2005 at 11:00 am Room RC-4082, Level 4, Red Centre Building
Internal and forced variability along a section between Greenland and Portugal in the CLIPPER Atlantic model
Dr. Mei-Man Lee
James Rennell Division for Ocean Circulation, Southampton Oceanography Centre
Thursday 1st December, 2005 at 12 noon. Room RC-4082, Level 4, Red Centre Building
Eddy heat and salt transport in the Southern Ocean
Professor Matthias Tomczak
Flinders University of South Australia
Thursday 24th November, 2005 at 11am. Room RC-4082, Level 4, Red Centre Building
Variations in Labrador Sea Water nitrate concentration deduced from hydrographic time series observations near Bermuda
Dr. Richard D. Smith (co-author: Peter R. Gent)
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, USA
Friday 18th November, 2005 at 12:00 noon. Room RC-4082, Level 4, Red Centre Building
Anisotropic viscosity and Gent/McWilliams Parameterizations in Ocean Models
Dr. Ruediger Gerdes
Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven
Friday 4th November, 2005 at 11 am. Room RC-4082, Level 4, Red Centre Building
Trends in North Atlantic properties and possible future developments
Stephen Griffies
Head Oceans and Climate Group NOAA/GFDL/Princeton Visiting Scientist CSIRO-Marine and University of Tasmania
Tuesday 9th August, 2005 at 3pm. Room RC-4082, Level 4, Red Centre
An overview of ocean models and modelling at NOAAs Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab
Professor George Veronis
Yale University
Friday, 13 May, 2005 at 11am Room RC-4082, Level 4, Red Centre Building
Thermohaline circulation in a two-layer model with sloping boundaries
Dr. Darryn Waugh
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Johns Hopkins University
Wednesday March 23rd at 4pm. Room RC-4082, Level 4, Red Centre Building
Stirring in the East Australia Current and Tasman Sea
Professor Oleg Saenko
Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis Victoria, CANADA
Thursday 3rd February at 11am Room RC-4082, Level 4, Red Centre Building
Southern Ocean: control of the global ocean circulation and projected changes
Professor Stefan Rahmstorf
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam University, Germany
Monday 21st February at 4pm. Room RC-4082, Level 4, Red Centre Building
Abrupt climatic change: are the Pentagon and Hollywood right?
2004 Willem Sijp
The University of New South Wales
March 10, 2004
Role of the Drake Passage in the global thermohaline circulation
Dr. Richard Matear
CSIRO Marine Research
March 4, 2004
The Oceanic Carbon Cycle in a Changing Climate.
Dr. Ben McNeil
The University of New South Wales
March 4, 2004
The Importance of the Oceanic Carbon Cycle: Past and Present
Professor Herbert Huppert
University of Cambridge, U.K.
March 18, 2004
Gravity currents: from hot lava flows through cool seabreezes to hazardous rockfalls
Agus Santoso
University of New South Wales
12 May, 2004
Variability of Circumpolar Deep Water in a coupled climate model
Professor Chris Reason
University of Cape Town, South Africa
13 July, 2004
Interannual climate variability of the South Atlantic and South Indian Oceans
Jaci Brown
University of New South Wales
9 August, 2004
How water crosses the equatorial vorticity barrier in the eastern Pacific.
Dr. Gerd Folberth
Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis
15 September, 2004
Atmospheric Chemistry and the Biosphere - A Walk-through to Tropospheric Chemical Composition
Professor Matthew England
University of New South Wales AMOS R H Clarke Lecture
23 September, 2004
Southern Hemisphere Ocean and Climate Variability
Caroline Ummenhofer
University of New South Wales
27 September, 2004
Australian climate variability
Stephanie Dupre
University of New South Wales
October 29, 2004
Latitude shifts in Southern Ocean westerly winds and their impact on past and present climate
Michael Bates
University of New South Wales
October 29, 2004
The effect of enhanced Antarctic meltwater on global ocean circulation and climate
2003 Dr Ben McNeil
Princeton University
Tuesday 27 May, 2003
Inferring global carbon sinks using oceanic CFC measurements
Dr. Bill McKee
School of Mathematics, The University of New South Wales
Wednesday 4 June, 2003
The propagation of water waves across a shearing current
Agus Santoso, School of Mathematics, The University of New South Wales
Wednesday 18 June, 2003
Antarctic Intermediate Water Variability in a Coupled Climate Model
Professor Johnny Chan
City University of Hong Kong, and Director, Shanghai Typhoon Institute
Thursday 3rd July, 2003
Potential vorticity tendency in tropical cyclone motion
Dr. Mark Baird
School of Mathematics, The University of New South Wales
Thursday 14 August, 2003
A pelagic ecosystem model with bio-mechanical descriptions of biological processes in an idealised 2-D ocean basin
Dr. Emily Pidgeon
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Friday 12th December, 2003
Observations of Diurnal Structures on the Central California Coast
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