Departmental seminars
We host two regular seminar series during each semester, on Mondays at 12:00 (normally an external speaker), and on Tuesdays at 13:00 (an internal speaker, such as a member of staff, postdoctoral or PhD researcher). These are usually held in the Sutcliffe Lecture Theatre, room GU01, in the Brian Hoskins Building. Subject to capacity limits, both series are open to all. Click on the links below for the latest seminar schedules. Occasional seminars outside of the regular schedules are normally announced via e-mail within the department.
In addition, on Fridays during each semester we host a weekly weather and climate discussion (WCD) meeting:
Friday Weather and Climate Discussion
Monday Departmental seminar programme
Mondays 12:00 to 12:50 – Autumn 2024
Location: Sutcliffe Lecture Theatre (GU01), Brian Hoskins Building
All seminars will also be hybrid broadcast on Microsoft Teams (External Seminar Series channel)
For additional information or to arrange a seminar contact Xiaocen Shen and Matthew Patterson
| 30 Sep | Michael Byrne University of St Andrews |
Daily temperature distributions over a range of climate states |
| 7 Oct | Jiuwei Zhao Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology |
Pacific warming pattern diversity in models and the consequent projections on tropical cyclone activity |
| 14 Oct | Matthew Kasoar Imperial College London |
A negative feedback on El Niño events caused by extreme fire activity in equatorial Asia |
| 21 Oct | Cancelled | |
| 28 Oct | Cyril Morcrette Met Office |
Cloud-resolving model machine learning (“Caramel”) |
| 4 Nov | Declan Finney University of Leeds |
Observations and modelling from the Deep Convective Microphysics Experiment (DCMEX) with a focus on anvil cloud radiative effect |
| 11 Nov | Mark Hammond University of Oxford |
Studying the Atmospheric Circulation of Tidally Locked Exoplanets with Theory and Observations |
| 18 Nov | Judah Cohen Atmospheric and Environmental Research |
Mid-latitude cold extremes during the recent period of Arctic amplification |
| 25 Nov | Ying Chen University of Birmingham |
Observational evidence of strong aerosol fingerprints on clouds and effect on radiative forcing |
| 2 Dec | Ian Hembrow |
Celsius – A Life And Death By Degrees: Sweden’s Enlightenment genius and his lessons for a world in crisis |
| 9 Dec* | Kalli Furtado Centre for Climate Research Singapore |
Modelling and predicting the weather and climate of the Maritime Continent |
| 16 Dec* | Puxi Li China Meteorological Administration |
Intensification of mesoscale convective systems in the East Asian rainband over the past two decades |
* remote speaker
Click here for the latest Departmental Seminar schedule in PDF format
Archive of past Departmental Seminar speakers
Tuesday Lunchtime seminar programme
Tuesdays 13:00 to 13:50 – Autumn 2024
Location: Sutcliffe Lecture Theatre (GU01), Brian Hoskins Building (unless stated otherwise below or in our email communications)
All seminars will also be hybrid broadcast on Microsoft Teams, on the Internal (Tuesday) Seminar Series channel
For additional information or to arrange a seminar contact Jake Aylmer and Dan Shipley
| 1 Oct | Eviatar Bach | Machine learning for data assimilation and forecasting (A joint Meteorology−Maths&Stats Seminar) |
| 8 Oct | Guannan Hu | Assessing the value of observations for numerical weather forecasting |
| 15 Oct | Xiaocen Shen | A forensic investigation of climate model biases in teleconnections: The case of the relationship between ENSO and the northern stratospheric polar vortex |
| 22 Oct (1L61) | Ségolène Berthou (Met Office) | Marine heatwaves around the UK: drivers and feedbacks on the atmosphere |
| 29 Oct (1L61) | Claire Bulgin | Remote sensing of surface temperature for climate applications |
| 5 Nov (1L61) | Peter Clark | Developments in parametrization of atmospheric turbulence |
| 12 Nov | Laura Risley | Preparing for the assimilation of future ocean-current measurements |
| 19 Nov | Blair McGinness | Understanding point discharge current measurements for planetary missions |
| 26 Nov | Kieran Hunt | Western disturbances and climate variability: a review of recent developments |
| 3 Dec | Flynn Ames | Stratification and particulate transport within the subsurface ocean of Enceladus |
| 10 Dec | Joy Singarayer | Mega-lakes in the Desert |
Click here for the latest Lunchtime Seminar schedule in PDF format