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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.<\/span><\/p>\n

Monday departmental seminars<\/a><\/p>\n

Tuesday lunchtime seminars<\/a><\/p>\n

In addition, on Fridays during each semester we host a weekly weather and climate discussion (WCD) meeting:<\/p>\n

Friday Weather and Climate Discussion<\/a><\/p>\n

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<\/a>Monday Departmental seminar programme\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Mondays 12:00 to 12:50 \u2013 Spring 2025
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Location: Sutcliffe Lecture Theatre (GU01), Brian Hoskins Building (unless otherwise indicated*)<\/p>\n

All seminars will also be hybrid broadcast on Microsoft Teams (External Seminar Series channel). Users internal to the University of Reading can access recordings of the talks by following the links from the talk titles. For external access to the recordings, please contact the seminar organisers. Recordings are available for 90 days following the seminar, subject to the speaker’s consent.<\/p>\n

For additional information or to arrange a seminar, contact Deepak Gopalakrishnan<\/a>, Rhidian Thomas<\/a>, and Alex Baker<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
19 Jan<\/td>\nRichard Seager
\n<\/strong>Columbia University<\/td>\n		Tropical ocean dynamics drive the observed strengthening of the zonal SST gradient and models get it wrong<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
26 Jan<\/td>\n(no seminar)<\/td>\n\n
(no seminar)<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2 Feb<\/td>\nFabien Roquet<\/strong>
\nUniversity of Gothenburg<\/td>\n		\n
9 Feb<\/td>\nStephan de Roode<\/strong>
\nTU Delft<\/td>\n		Improving wind and solar radiation forecasts using large-eddy simulation models<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16 Feb<\/td>\nLee de Mora
\n<\/strong>Plymouth Marine Laboratory<\/td>\n		The fate of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation under net-zero is critically dependent on total warming<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23 Feb<\/td>\nDavid Webb
\n<\/strong>National Oceanography Centre<\/td>\n		Hidden in plain sight \u2013 a new ENSO mechanism<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2 Mar<\/td>\nPavel Berloff
\n<\/strong>Imperial College London<\/td>\n		Clustering of Floating Tracers in the Ocean<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9 Mar<\/td>\nZilin Wang
\n<\/strong>Nanjing University<\/td>\n		Air Pollution\u2013Atmospheric Boundary Layer Interaction: From Regional Scale to Urban Cities<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16 Mar<\/td>\nBenoit Mayer
\n<\/strong>University of Reading<\/td>\n		Are There Victims in Climate Litigation?<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23 Mar<\/td>\nMarina\u00a0Baldissera Pacchetti<\/span>
\n<\/strong>University College London
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n		Quality of climate information for decision making: a philosophy of science perspective<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Click here for the latest Departmental Seminar schedule in PDF format<\/a><\/p>\n

Archive of past Departmental Seminar speakers<\/a><\/p>\n

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<\/a>Tuesday Lunchtime seminar programme <\/strong><\/h3>\n

Tuesdays 13:00 to 13:50 \u2013 Autumn 2025<\/p>\n

Location: Sutcliffe Lecture Theatre (GU01), Brian Hoskins Building<\/p>\n

All seminars will also be hybrid broadcast on Microsoft Teams, on the Internal (Tuesday) Seminar Series channel<\/p>\n

For additional information or to arrange a seminar, contact Aheli Das<\/a>, Andressa Andrade Cardoso<\/a>, and Narender Reddy Kangari<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
20 Jan<\/td>\nSatoru Okajima<\/b><\/strong><\/td>\nEssential roles of synoptic-scale transient eddies in atmosphere-ocean interactions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27 Jan<\/td>\nDavid Brayshaw<\/b><\/strong><\/td>\nClimate science and the energy transformation: challenges and opportunities<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
03 Feb<\/td>\nRosie Mammatt<\/strong><\/td>\nInvestigating ice cloud microphysics in midlatitude frontal clouds using aircraft and radar observations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10 Feb<\/td>\nJames Weber<\/strong><\/td>\nThe evolution and drivers of UK air quality over the last decade<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17 Feb<\/td>\nIpshita Dey<\/strong><\/td>\nAn overview of extratropical cyclones in eddy-rich earth system models<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24 Feb<\/td>\nChitradeep Saha<\/strong><\/td>\nFrom tree rings to solar irradiance: tracing solar magnetism across millennia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
03 Mar<\/td>\nStephen Burt<\/strong><\/td>\nUniversity of Reading weather – past and present<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10 Mar<\/td>\nHette Houtman<\/strong><\/td>\nTrapped lee waves as a missing source of drag<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17 Mar<\/td>\nKieran Hunt<\/strong><\/td>\nLearning new science from explainable AI: applications in tropical meteorology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24 Mar<\/td>\nAndressa Andrade Cardoso<\/strong><\/td>\nThe role of the diabatic processes in the predictability of Mediterranean cyclones<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Click here for the latest Lunchtime Seminar schedule in PDF format<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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