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 – Spring 2025
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
| 06 Jan | Jonathan Beverley NOAA CIRES/PSL |
Rapid Development of Systematic Errors in Seasonal Forecasts |
| 20 Jan | Yan Ren Lanzhou University |
Weak Turbulence and Turbulence Intermittency in the Stable Boundary Layer and Their Applications in Haze Pollution Processes |
| 27 Jan | Lichuan Wu Uppsala University |
Impact of air-sea interactions on the development of Polar lows |
| 03 Feb* | Alejandro Di Luca Université du Québec à Montréal |
Identifying storms associated with North American wind and precipitation extremes |
| 10 Feb | David Thornalley University College London |
Is the Atlantic overturning circulation on the brink of collapse? |
| 17 Feb | Sebastian Sippel University of Leipzig |
Early 20th century cold bias in ocean surface temperature observations |
| 26 Feb (Moved to Wednesday) | Davide Faranda CNRS-CEA-LSCE-IPSL |
ClimaMeter |
| 03 Mar | Shipra Jain University College London |
Rethinking Professional Roles of Early- and Mid-Career Climate Scientists |
| 10 Mar | Johnny Luo City College of New York |
Satellite-Based Estimation of Convective Mass Flux for Convective Dynamics and GCM Evaluation |
| 17 Mar | Cancelled | |
| 24 Mar | Nicola Khadr-Howe Moody’s |
Leveraging Machine Learning to Enhance Coastal Flood Risk Modeling |
* Remote speaker
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Archive of past Departmental Seminar speakers
Tuesday Lunchtime seminar programme
Tuesdays 13:00 to 13:50 – Spring 2025
Location: Sutcliffe Lecture Theatre (GU01), Brian Hoskins Building
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
| 21 Jan | Cancelled | |
| 28 Jan | Caleb Miller | Improvement of fog forecasting using atmospheric electricity |
| 4 Feb | Ranjini Swaminathan | Regional impacts poorly constrained by climate sensitivity |
| 11 Feb | Chris Holloway | What can we learn about the real world from idealised models of convective aggregation? |
| 18 Feb | Harriet Turner | Forecast improvements from solar wind data assimilation |
| 25 Feb | James Weber | Slowing of stratospheric O₃ recovery with CH₄ emission reductions highlights importance of continued chlorine and N₂O abatement |
| 4 Mar | Anthony Illingworth | EarthCARE and WIVERN: two ESA Earth Observation satellites from the Reading stable |
| 11 Mar | James O’Donoghue | Saturn’s rings—last chance to see |
| 18 Mar | Helen Dacre | A kinematic analysis of extratropical cyclones, warm conveyor belts and atmospheric rivers |
| 25 Mar | Matt Patterson | Developing targeted climate storylines using a particle filter: application to abrupt AMOC declines |
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