{"id":2616,"date":"2018-07-04T13:52:57","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T12:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/?page_id=2616"},"modified":"2026-01-05T09:06:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T09:06:38","slug":"departmental-seminars-speaker-archive","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/news-and-events\/seminars\/departmental-seminars-speaker-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Departmental Seminars Speaker Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Autumn 2025<\/h3>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td>29 Sep<\/td>\n<td><strong>Zhixiao Zhang<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of Oxford<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl96\" width=\"255\" height=\"37\"><a 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impacts of a weakened AMOC on extreme events in Europe<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td>13 Oct<\/td>\n<td><strong>Megan Brown<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of Cambridge<\/td>\n<td>\n<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><a 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Horizons: Investigating Chemistry in the Martian Chemistry<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>20 Oct<\/td>\n<td><strong>Rob Chadwick<\/strong><br \/>\nMet Office<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/livereadingac.sharepoint.com\/:v:\/s\/grp-smpcs-MeteorologyAll\/EbndmqwW-VhOgdBnM7EP9nIBT5L_LihpLybTkgPfZsHM4A?e=z9D0Sa&amp;nav=eyJyZWZlcnJhbEluZm8iOnsicmVmZXJyYWxBcHAiOiJTdHJlYW1XZWJBcHAiLCJyZWZlcnJhbFZpZXciOiJTaGFyZURpYWxvZy1MaW5rIiwicmVmZXJyYWxBcHBQbGF0Zm9ybSI6IldlYiIsInJlZmVycmFsTW9kZSI6InZpZXcifX0%3D\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Regional monsoon circulation and precipitation responses to CO<sub>2<\/sub> forcing<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td>27 Oct<\/td>\n<td><strong>Sandeep Kodoli<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of Strathclyde<\/td>\n<td><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Urban CO\u2082 Flux Estimation Using Sensor-Based Inverse Modelling<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3 Nov<\/td>\n<td><strong>May M. M. Chim<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of Exeter<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/livereadingac.sharepoint.com\/:v:\/s\/grp-smpcs-MeteorologyAll\/IQCnvrRtQiT_RJ0W3zKxod6kATCA7Tv4GGP4HIcmuaOcVmU?e=7k7P0V&amp;nav=eyJyZWZlcnJhbEluZm8iOnsicmVmZXJyYWxBcHAiOiJTdHJlYW1XZWJBcHAiLCJyZWZlcnJhbFZpZXciOiJTaGFyZURpYWxvZy1MaW5rIiwicmVmZXJyYWxBcHBQbGF0Zm9ybSI6IldlYiIsInJlZmVycmFsTW9kZSI6InZpZXcifX0%3D\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Volcanic forcing uncertainty in climate projections<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td>10 Nov<\/td>\n<td><strong>Eloise Marais<br \/>\n<\/strong>University College London<\/td>\n<td><a 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data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Radiative forcing and stratospheric ozone depletion due to pollution from launch and demise of satellite megaconstellations<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>17 Nov<\/td>\n<td><strong>Sarah Sparrow<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of Oxford<\/td>\n<td><a 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data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Boosting energy system resilience in the face of future weather extremes<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>24 Nov<\/td>\n<td><strong>Anna S\u00f6rensson<br \/>\n<\/strong><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">University of Buenos Aires<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/livereadingac.sharepoint.com\/:v:\/s\/grp-smpcs-MeteorologyAll\/IQAYjKZ_w4LbQopApcrN1EqlAT85orU7t2PkLj7dkCUPLDE?e=CJYwyg&amp;nav=eyJyZWZlcnJhbEluZm8iOnsicmVmZXJyYWxBcHAiOiJTdHJlYW1XZWJBcHAiLCJyZWZlcnJhbFZpZXciOiJTaGFyZURpYWxvZy1MaW5rIiwicmVmZXJyYWxBcHBQbGF0Zm9ybSI6IldlYiIsInJlZmVycmFsTW9kZSI6InZpZXcifX0%3D\"><span class=\"JdFsz\" title=\"Departmental Seminar \u2014 Climate storylines as a tool for interdisciplinary dialogue on risk decision-making\">Climate storylines as a tool for interdisciplinary dialogue on risk decision-making<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1 Dec<\/td>\n<td><strong>Fabian Hoffman<br \/>\n<\/strong>LMU Munich<strong><br 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data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"> Atmospheric Angular Momentum: a new mechanism for delayed ENSO impact on the East Asian Summer Monsoon<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>15 Dec<\/td>\n<td>No seminar (AGU week)<\/td>\n<td><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">\u00a0&#8211;<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Summer 2025<\/h3>\n<table style=\"width: 86.5511%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 15.5583%\">22 Apr (Tues*)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.3112%\"><strong>Matthew England<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of New South Wales<\/td>\n<td class=\"xl96\" style=\"width: 66.8758%\" width=\"255\" height=\"37\">Drivers of the unprecedented North Atlantic marine heatwave during 2023<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 15.5583%\">28 Apr<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.3112%\">(No seminar \u2013 EGU week)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 66.8758%\">\u2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 15.5583%\">01 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href=\"https:\/\/livereadingac.sharepoint.com\/sites\/grp-smpcs-MeteorologyAll\/Shared%20Documents\/External%20(Monday)%20Seminar%20Series\/Recordings\/Departmental%20Seminar_%20Charting%20New%20Waters_%20JWST%20Observations%20of%20Jupiter,%20Uranus,%20and%20Neptune-20250512_120051-Meeting%20Recording.mp4?web=1&amp;referrer=Teams.TEAMS-ELECTRON&amp;referrerScenario=MeetingChicletGetLink.view\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Charting New Waters: JWST Observations of Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 15.5583%\">19 May<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.3112%\"><strong>Beena Balan Sarojini<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of Oxford<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 66.8758%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/livereadingac.sharepoint.com\/sites\/grp-smpcs-MeteorologyAll\/Shared%20Documents\/External%20(Monday)%20Seminar%20Series\/Recordings\/Departmental%20Seminar_%20Seamless%20Climate%20Predictions_%20From%20Pathway%20to%20Impact-20250519_120140-Meeting%20Recording.mp4?web=1&amp;referrer=Teams.TEAMS-ELECTRON&amp;referrerScenario=MeetingChicletGetLink.view\">Seamless Climate Predictions: From Pathway to Impact<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 15.5583%\">27 May (Tues*)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.3112%\"><strong>Xu-Cheng He<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of Helsinki<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 66.8758%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/livereadingac.sharepoint.com\/sites\/grp-smpcs-MeteorologyAll\/Shared%20Documents\/External%20(Monday)%20Seminar%20Series\/Recordings\/Departmental%20Seminar_%20Marine%20Aerosols%20as%20Key%20Contributors%20to%20Climate%20Projection%20Uncertainties-20250527_120529-Meeting%20Recording.mp4?web=1&amp;referrer=Teams.TEAMS-ELECTRON&amp;referrerScenario=MeetingChicletGetLink.view\">Marine Aerosols as Key Contributors to Climate Projection Uncertainties<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 15.5583%\">02 Jun<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.3112%\"><strong>Simon Clark<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 66.8758%\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">We need to talk about Kelvin<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 15.5583%\">05 Jun (Thurs*)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.3112%\"><strong>Reyk B\u00f6rner<br \/>\n<\/strong><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Utrecht University<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 66.8758%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/livereadingac.sharepoint.com\/sites\/grp-smpcs-MeteorologyAll\/_layouts\/15\/stream.aspx?id=%2Fsites%2Fgrp%2Dsmpcs%2DMeteorologyAll%2FShared%20Documents%2FExternal%20%28Monday%29%20Seminar%20Series%2FRecordings%2FSpecial%20Seminar%5F%20Climate%20on%20the%20edge%5F%20Metastability%20of%20the%20Atlantic%20overturning%20circulation%2D20250605%5F115736%2DMeeting%20Recording%2Emp4&amp;referrer=StreamWebApp%2EWeb&amp;referrerScenario=AddressBarCopied%2Eview%2E7e837217%2Da83d%2D42aa%2D8564%2D9c555b5c21ac\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Climate on the edge: Metastability of the Atlantic overturning circulation<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 15.5583%\">09 Jun<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.3112%\"><strong>Harrison Cook<br \/>\n<\/strong>ECMWF<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 66.8758%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/livereadingac.sharepoint.com\/sites\/grp-smpcs-MeteorologyAll\/Shared%20Documents\/External%20(Monday)%20Seminar%20Series\/Recordings\/Departmental%20Seminar_%20Machine%20Learning%20Weather%20Forecasting%20models%20at%20ECMWF,%20and%20the%20software%20which%20enables%20it-20250609_115609-Meeting%20Recording.mp4?web=1&amp;referrer=Teams.TEAMS-ELECTRON&amp;referrerScenario=MeetingChicletGetLink.view\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Machine Learning \u00a0Weather Forecasting models at ECMWF, and the software which enables it<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n<table style=\"width: 86.9032%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 15.0456%\">12 Jun (Thurs*)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.023%\"><strong>Gabi Hegerl<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of Edinburgh<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 64.2028%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/livereadingac.sharepoint.com\/sites\/grp-smpcs-MeteorologyAll\/Shared%20Documents\/External%20(Monday)%20Seminar%20Series\/Recordings\/Special%20Seminar%20Using%20observed%20extreme%20weather%20and%20climate%20events%20to%20inform%20on%20future%20climate%20risk-20250612_120942-Meeting%20Recording.mp4?web=1&amp;referrer=Teams.TEAMS-ELECTRON&amp;referrerScenario=MeetingChicletGetLink.view\">Using observed extreme weather and climate events to inform on future climate risk<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"width: 87.2176%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 10.2978%\">13 Jun (Fri*)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 21.5881%\"><strong><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">William Skirving<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Visiting Professor<\/span>, <span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">University of Reading<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 66.005%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/livereadingac.sharepoint.com\/sites\/grp-smpcs-MeteorologyAll\/Shared%20Documents\/External%20(Monday)%20Seminar%20Series\/Recordings\/Special%20Seminar%20Why%20do%20corals%20bleach%20and%20how%20do%20we%20monitor%20bleaching%20from%20space-20250613_120438-Meeting%20Recording.mp4?web=1&amp;referrer=Teams.TEAMS-ELECTRON&amp;referrerScenario=MeetingChicletGetLink.view\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Why do corals bleach and how do we monitor bleaching from space<\/span>?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"width: 87.3339%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 10.0128%\">16 Jun<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 21.6945%\"><strong><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Ping Chang<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>Texas A&amp;M University<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 70.3682%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/livereadingac.sharepoint.com\/sites\/grp-smpcs-MeteorologyAll\/Shared%20Documents\/External%20(Monday)%20Seminar%20Series\/Recordings\/Departmental%20Seminar%20Improving%20Extreme%20Precipitation%20Projections%20with%20High-Resolution%20Climate%20Models-20250616_120118-Meeting%20Recording.mp4?web=1&amp;referrer=Teams.TEAMS-ELECTRON&amp;referrerScenario=MeetingChicletGetLink.view\">Improving Extreme Precipitation Projections with High-Resolution Climate Models<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 10.0128%\">11 Jul (Fri*)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 21.6945%\"><strong><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Allison Wing<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>Florida State University<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 70.3682%\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Enhancement of precipitation extremes by convective organization<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"width: 87.6638%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 3.82096%\">14 Jul<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.2533%\"><strong>Rachel Atlas<br \/>\n<\/strong><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Laboratoire de M\u00e9t\u00e9orologie Dynamique, IPSL<\/span><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 59.4979%\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Turbulence in the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere: Insights from Radiosonde and Aircraft Observations<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3>SPRING 2025<\/h3>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td>06 Jan<\/td>\n<td><strong>Jonathan Beverley<br \/>\n<\/strong>NOAA CIRES\/PSL<\/td>\n<td>Rapid Development of Systematic Errors in Seasonal Forecasts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td>20 Jan<\/td>\n<td><strong>Yan Ren<br \/>\n<\/strong>Lanzhou University<\/td>\n<td>Weak Turbulence and Turbulence Intermittency in the Stable Boundary Layer and Their Applications in Haze Pollution Processes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td>27 Jan<\/td>\n<td><strong>Lichuan Wu<\/strong><br \/>\nUppsala University<\/td>\n<td>Impact of air-sea interactions on the development of Polar lows<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>03 Feb*<\/td>\n<td><b><strong>Alejandro Di Luca<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/b>Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al<\/td>\n<td>Identifying storms associated with North American wind and precipitation extremes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td>10 Feb<\/td>\n<td><strong>David Thornalley<br \/>\n<\/strong>University College London<\/td>\n<td>Is the Atlantic overturning circulation on the brink of collapse?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>17 Feb<\/td>\n<td><strong>Sebastian Sippel<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of Leipzig<\/td>\n<td>Early 20th century cold bias in ocean surface temperature observations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td>26 Feb (Moved to Wednesday)<\/td>\n<td><strong>Davide Faranda<br \/>\n<\/strong>CNRS-CEA-LSCE-IPSL<\/td>\n<td>ClimaMeter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>03 Mar<\/td>\n<td><strong>Shipra Jain<br \/>\n<\/strong>University College London<\/td>\n<td>Rethinking Professional Roles of Early- and Mid-Career Climate Scientists<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10 Mar<\/td>\n<td><strong>Johnny Luo<br \/>\n<\/strong>City College of New York<\/td>\n<td>Satellite-Based Estimation of Convective Mass Flux for Convective Dynamics and GCM Evaluation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>17 Mar<\/td>\n<td><strong><em>Cancelled<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>24 Mar<\/td>\n<td><strong>Nicola Khadr-Howe<br \/>\n<\/strong>Moody&#8217;s<\/td>\n<td>Leveraging Machine Learning to Enhance Coastal Flood Risk Modeling<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>AUTUMN 2024<\/h3>\n<table style=\"font-size: 1em\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 8.26938%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">30 Sep<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 32.7397%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\"><strong>Michael Byrne<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of St Andrews<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">Daily temperature distributions over a range of climate states<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 8.26938%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">7 Oct<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 32.7397%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\"><strong>Jiuwei Zhao<br \/>\n<\/strong>Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">Pacific warming pattern diversity in models and the consequent projections on tropical cyclone activity<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 8.26938%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">14 Oct<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 32.7397%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\"><strong>Matthew Kasoar<\/strong><br \/>\nImperial College London<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">A negative feedback on El Ni\u00f1o events caused by extreme fire activity in equatorial Asia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 10px\">\n<td style=\"width: 8.26938%;vertical-align: top;height: 10px\">21 Oct<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 32.7397%;vertical-align: top;height: 10px\"><em>Cancelled<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;vertical-align: top;height: 10px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 8.26938%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">28 Oct<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 32.7397%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\"><strong>Cyril Morcrette<br \/>\n<\/strong>Met Office<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">Cloud-resolving model machine learning (&#8220;Caramel&#8221;)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 8.26938%;height: 10px;vertical-align: top\">4 Nov<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 32.7397%;height: 10px;vertical-align: top\"><strong>Declan Finney<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of Leeds<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 10px;vertical-align: top\">Observations and modelling from the Deep Convective Microphysics Experiment (DCMEX) with a focus on anvil cloud radiative effect<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 8.26938%;height: 11px;vertical-align: top\">11 Nov<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 32.7397%;height: 11px;vertical-align: top\"><strong>Mark Hammond<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of Oxford<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 11px;vertical-align: top\">Studying the Atmospheric Circulation of Tidally Locked Exoplanets with Theory and Observations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 11px\">\n<td style=\"width: 8.26938%;height: 11px;vertical-align: top\">18 Nov<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 32.7397%;height: 11px;vertical-align: top\"><strong>Judah Cohen<br \/>\n<\/strong>Atmospheric and Environmental Research<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 11px;vertical-align: top\">Mid-latitude cold extremes during the recent period of Arctic amplification<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 8.26938%;vertical-align: top;height: 23px\">25 Nov<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 32.7397%;vertical-align: top;height: 23px\"><strong>Ying Chen<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of Birmingham<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;vertical-align: top;height: 23px\">Observational evidence of strong aerosol fingerprints on clouds and effect on radiative forcing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 8.26938%;vertical-align: top;height: 23px\">2 Dec<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 32.7397%;vertical-align: top;height: 23px\"><strong>Ian Hembrow<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;vertical-align: top;height: 23px\">Celsius \u2013 A Life And Death By Degrees: Sweden\u2019s Enlightenment genius and his lessons for a world in crisis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 8.26938%;vertical-align: top;height: 23px\">9 Dec*<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 32.7397%;vertical-align: top;height: 23px\"><strong>Kalli Furtado<br \/>\n<\/strong>Centre for Climate Research Singapore<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;vertical-align: top;height: 23px\">Modelling and predicting the weather and climate of the Maritime Continent<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 8.26938%;vertical-align: top;height: 23px\">16 Dec*<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 32.7397%;vertical-align: top;height: 23px\"><strong>Puxi Li<br \/>\n<\/strong>China Meteorological Administration<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;vertical-align: top;height: 23px\">Intensification of mesoscale convective systems in the East Asian rainband over the past two decades<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>SUMMER 2024<\/h3>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 8.26938%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">17 Apr<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 32.7397%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">\u00a0<em>No Seminar<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 8.26938%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">24 Apr<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 32.7397%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\"><strong>Aurore Porson<br \/>\n<\/strong>Met Office<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">The UK Testbed 2023: a review of the activities, Science and Services outcomes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 8.26938%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">1 May<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 32.7397%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\"><strong>Guillaume Roullet<br \/>\n<\/strong>Universit\u00e9 de Bretagne Occidentale, France<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">Recent advances in ocean modelling: transport, dissipation and PV dynamics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 10px\">\n<td style=\"width: 8.26938%;vertical-align: top;height: 10px\">8 May<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 32.7397%;vertical-align: top;height: 10px\"><strong>Ralph Lorenz<br \/>\n<\/strong>Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, US<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;vertical-align: top;height: 10px\">Dragonfly: A Relocatable Rotorcraft Lander for Titan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 8.26938%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">15 May<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 32.7397%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\"><strong>Tiffany Shaw<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of Chicago, US<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">Moving beyond the mean to understand circulation extremes under climate change<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 8.26938%;height: 10px;vertical-align: top\">22 May*<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 32.7397%;height: 10px;vertical-align: top\"><strong>Wieslaw Maslowski<br \/>\n<\/strong>Naval Postgraduate School, US<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 10px;vertical-align: top\">Advancements in Arctic Climate Modeling and Sub-Seasonal to Decadal Prediction<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 8.26938%;height: 11px;vertical-align: top\">29 May<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 32.7397%;height: 11px;vertical-align: top\"><em>No Seminar<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 11px;vertical-align: top\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 11px\">\n<td style=\"width: 8.26938%;height: 11px;vertical-align: top\">5 June<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 32.7397%;height: 11px;vertical-align: top\"><em>No Seminar<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 11px;vertical-align: top\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>SPRING 2024<\/h3>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 6.83114%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">10 Jan 2024<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.1779%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Cancelled<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 6.83114%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">17 Jan<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.1779%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\"><strong>Ralf Toumi<br \/>\n<\/strong>Imperial College London<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">The Dependence of Tropical Cyclone Pressure Tendency on Size<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 6.83114%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">24 Jan<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.1779%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\"><strong>Keisuke Nakao<br \/>\n<\/strong>Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Japan<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">Near-Surface Weather Research Applications for the Electric Industry<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 10px\">\n<td style=\"width: 6.83114%;vertical-align: top;height: 10px\">31 Jan<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.1779%;vertical-align: top;height: 10px\"><strong>Abdullah Kahraman<br \/>\n<\/strong>Newcastle University<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;vertical-align: top;height: 10px\">Exploiting UKCP18 for future changes in convective hazards<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 6.83114%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">7 Feb<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.1779%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\"><strong>Ramon Fuentes-Franco<br \/>\n<\/strong>Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Sweden<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">Global atmospheric response to Rossby wave sources over the Northeastern Pacific Ocean from a set of CMIP6 large ensembles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 6.83114%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">14 Feb<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.1779%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Cancelled<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 6.83114%;height: 11px;vertical-align: top\">21 Feb<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.1779%;height: 11px;vertical-align: top\"><strong>Simon Schaffer<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of Cambridge<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 11px;vertical-align: top\">The empire of the heavens and the colonisation of climates<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 11px\">\n<td style=\"width: 6.83114%;height: 11px;vertical-align: top\">28 Feb<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.1779%;height: 11px;vertical-align: top\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Cancelled<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 11px;vertical-align: top\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\">\n<td style=\"width: 6.83114%;vertical-align: top;height: 46px\">6 Mar<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.1779%;height: 46px;vertical-align: top\"><strong><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Ralf Toumi&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:4609,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;15&quot;:&quot;Arial&quot;}\">Jingyue Di &amp; Wenyuan Tang<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>National Meteorological Centre, China<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 46px;vertical-align: top\">The record floods in North China after Typhoon Doksuri in 2023<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\">\n<td style=\"width: 6.83114%;vertical-align: top;height: 46px\">13 Mar<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.1779%;height: 46px;vertical-align: top\"><strong><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Ralf Toumi&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:4609,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;15&quot;:&quot;Arial&quot;}\">Chris Rapley<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>University College London<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 46px;vertical-align: top\">Climate Change &#8211; Finding the Agency to Act<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\">\n<td style=\"width: 6.83114%;vertical-align: top;height: 46px\">20 Mar<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.1779%;height: 46px;vertical-align: top\"><strong><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Ralf Toumi&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:4609,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;15&quot;:&quot;Arial&quot;}\">Marilena Oltmanns<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>National Oceanography Centre<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 46px;vertical-align: top\">Shifting ocean currents, deflecting the jet stream, pushing European weather records &#8211; Tracing pathways of change in North Atlantic climate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>AUTUMN 2023<\/h3>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 6.83114%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">27 Sep 2023<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.1779%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Cancelled<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 6.83114%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">4 Oct*<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.1779%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\"><strong>Raffaele Sgarlato<br \/>\n<\/strong>Hertie School, Germany<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">Weather-driven electricity systems: day-ahead electricity price forecasting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 6.83114%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">11 Oct<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.1779%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\"><strong>Maximiliano Viale<br \/>\n<\/strong>Instituto Argentino de Nivolog\u00eda, Glaciolog\u00eda y Ciencias Ambientales, Argentina<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">Orographic Precipitation in the Andes of Argentina and Chile<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 10px\">\n<td style=\"width: 6.83114%;vertical-align: top;height: 10px\">18 Oct<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.1779%;vertical-align: top;height: 10px\"><strong>Mitch Moncrieff<br \/>\n<\/strong>NCAR, USA<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;vertical-align: top;height: 10px\">Dynamical-based Parameterization of Organized Convection for Global Climate Models<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 6.83114%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">25 Oct<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.1779%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Cancelled<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 6.83114%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">1 Nov<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.1779%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\"><strong>Liliana Macotela Cruz<br \/>\n<\/strong><span class=\"ui-provider gr b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\">University of Bath<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">Latitudinal dependence of the fall-effect observed in the D-region and in the mesosphere<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 6.83114%;height: 11px;vertical-align: top\">8 Nov<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.1779%;height: 11px;vertical-align: top\"><strong>Shuai Hu<br \/>\n<\/strong>Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 11px;vertical-align: top\">Mechanisms and predictability of summer precipitation variations in the Asian water tower<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 11px\">\n<td style=\"width: 6.83114%;height: 11px;vertical-align: top\">15 Nov<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.1779%;height: 11px;vertical-align: top\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Cancelled<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 11px;vertical-align: top\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\">\n<td style=\"width: 6.83114%;vertical-align: top;height: 46px\">22 Nov<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.1779%;height: 46px;vertical-align: top\"><strong><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Ralf Toumi&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:4609,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;15&quot;:&quot;Arial&quot;}\">Timothy Hewson<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>ECMWF<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 46px;vertical-align: top\">Extraordinary Cyclones in the <span style=\"font-family: inherit;font-size: inherit\">Extratropics<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\">\n<td style=\"width: 6.83114%;vertical-align: top;height: 46px\">29 Nov<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.1779%;height: 46px;vertical-align: top\"><strong><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Ralf Toumi&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:4609,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;15&quot;:&quot;Arial&quot;}\">Ziqiang Ma<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>Peking University, China<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 46px;vertical-align: top\">Satellite Precipitation Measurement based on Chinese Fengyun Satellites<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\">\n<td style=\"width: 6.83114%;vertical-align: top;height: 46px\">6 Dec*<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.1779%;height: 46px;vertical-align: top\"><strong><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Ralf Toumi&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:4609,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;15&quot;:&quot;Arial&quot;}\">Mariana Madruga de Brito<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>Helmholtz Centre<br \/>\nfor Environmental Research \u2212 UFZ, Germany<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 46px;vertical-align: top\">Text mining in climate extremes research: from impacts to adaptation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>SUmmer 2023<\/h3>\n<table style=\"height: 182px;width: 84.6647%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 6.83114%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">17 Apr 2023<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.1779%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\"><strong>Jan Wohland<br \/>\n<\/strong>ETH Zurich, Switzerland<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">Climate Risks for Renewable Energy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 6.83114%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">24 Apr<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.1779%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\"><b>(no seminar &#8211; EGU week)<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 6.83114%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">2 May*<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.1779%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\"><strong>Brian Haddock<br \/>\n<\/strong>Network Rail<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">Weather Management on the UK Rail network<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 10px\">\n<td style=\"width: 6.83114%;vertical-align: top;height: 10px\">9 May*<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.1779%;vertical-align: top;height: 10px\"><strong>Tom Matthews<br \/>\n<\/strong>King&#8217;s College London<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;vertical-align: top;height: 10px\">Weather station observations reach the summit of Mt. Everest<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 6.83114%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">15 May<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.1779%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\"><strong>Xiaocen Shen<br \/>\n<\/strong><span class=\"ui-provider gr b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\">Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; <\/span>University of Reading<br \/>\n(internal\/external seminar swap with Annica Ekman for 10 May)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">Intraseasonal variability of the stratospheric polar vortex in northern and southern hemispheres: characteristics, mechanisms, and impacts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 6.83114%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">22 May<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.1779%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\"><strong>Mike Wallace<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of Washington, USA<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">Exploiting Animations in Atmospheric Sciences Teaching and Research<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 6.83114%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">30 May*<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.1779%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\"><strong>Siren R\u00fchs<br \/>\n<\/strong>Utrecht University, Netherlands<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.015%;height: 23px;vertical-align: top\">Robust estimates for the decadal evolution of Agulhas leakage from the 1960s to the 2010s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>SPRING 2023<\/h3>\n<table style=\"width: 84.9541%;height: 281px\" border=\"\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.66451%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">9 Jan 2023<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 23px;width: 29.4934%;vertical-align: middle\"><strong>Inez Ponce de Leon<br \/>\n<\/strong>Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.5872%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">Going beyond information packaging in climate change communication<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.66451%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">16 Jan<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 29.4934%;height: 23px\"><strong>Martin De Kauwe<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of Bristol<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.5872%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">Can we predict drought-induced tree mortality?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.66451%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">23 Jan<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 29.4934%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><strong>Alison Ming<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of Cambridge<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.5872%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">Processes controlling year to year variability in the tropical lower stratosphere<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.66451%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">30 Jan<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 29.4934%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><strong>Edmund Henley<br \/>\n<\/strong>Met Office<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.5872%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">Space weather forecasting at the Met Office<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.66451%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\">6 Feb<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 29.4934%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\"><strong>Will Gray<br \/>\n<\/strong>IPSL Sciences Laboratory of Climate and the Environment (LSCE), France<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.5872%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\">Poleward shifts in the northern and southern westerly winds over the last deglaciation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 41px\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.66451%;vertical-align: middle;height: 41px\">13 Feb<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 29.4934%;vertical-align: middle;height: 41px\"><strong>Fiona Johnson<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of New South Wales, Australia<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.5872%;vertical-align: middle;height: 41px\">Droughts and flooding rains: statistical post processing to better under future hydrological extremes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.66451%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">20 Feb<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 29.4934%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><strong>Juan Pedro Mellado Gonz\u00e1lez<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of Hamburg, Germany<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.5872%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.66451%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">27 Feb<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 29.4934%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><strong>Christian Buckingham<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, MA, USA<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.5872%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">Revisiting symmetric instability<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.66451%;vertical-align: middle;height: 46px\">6 Mar<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 29.4934%;vertical-align: middle;height: 46px\"><strong>Lea Svendsen<br \/>\n<\/strong>Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research &amp; University of Bergen, Norway<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.5872%;vertical-align: middle;height: 46px\"><span class=\"ui-provider iu b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\">Pacific influence on Arctic Climate on decadal timescales<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.66451%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">13 Mar<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 29.4934%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><strong>Vandana Singh<br \/>\n<\/strong>Framingham State University, MA, USA<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.5872%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.66451%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">20 Mar<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 29.4934%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><strong>Diego Miralles<br \/>\n<\/strong>Ghent University, Belgium<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.5872%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><span class=\"ui-provider wx b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\">Land feedbacks and their influence on droughts and heatwaves<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>AUTUMN 2022<\/h3>\n<table style=\"width: 84.9541%;height: 224px\" border=\"\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.66451%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">26 Sep 2022<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 23px;width: 29.4934%;vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Cancelled<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.5872%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.66451%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">3 Oct<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 29.4934%;height: 23px\"><strong>Helen Ward<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of Innsbruck<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.5872%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">Using observations and modelling to advance understanding of atmospheric processes in complex environments<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.66451%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">10 Oct<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 29.4934%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><strong>Benoit Meyssignac<br \/>\n<\/strong>LEGOS, Midi-Pyrenees Observatory, Toulouse<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.5872%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">Constraint on the climate feedback parameter and the equilibrium climate sensitivity from historical Earth energy imbalance observations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.66451%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">17 Oct<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 29.4934%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Cancelled<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.5872%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.66451%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\">24 Oct<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 29.4934%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Cancelled<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.5872%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.66451%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\">31 Oct<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 29.4934%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\"><strong>Jesse Reynolds<br \/>\n<\/strong>Climate Overshoot Commission<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.5872%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\">The Climate Overshoot Commission: Reducing the risks of exceeding global warming goals<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.66451%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">7 Nov<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 29.4934%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><strong>Lucy Barker<br \/>\n<\/strong>UK Centre for Ecology &amp; Hydrology<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.5872%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">Dynamic High Resolution Hydrological Status Monitoring in Real-Time: The UK Water Resources Portal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.66451%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">14 Nov<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 29.4934%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><strong>Woosok Moon<br \/>\n<\/strong>Pukyong National University, South Korea<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.5872%;vertical-align: middle\">Wavier\u00a0jet streams driven by zonally asymmetric surface thermal forcing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 7.66451%;vertical-align: middle\">21 Nov<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 29.4934%;vertical-align: middle\"><strong> <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Cancelled<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.5872%;vertical-align: middle\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.66451%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">28 Nov<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 29.4934%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><strong>Alan Geer<br \/>\n<\/strong>ECWMF<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.5872%;vertical-align: middle\">The importance of snow and ice microphysics when using satellite observations for weather forecasting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.66451%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">5 Dec<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 29.4934%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><strong>Song Chen<br \/>\n<\/strong>Meteorological Service Singapore<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50.5872%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">High resolution urban modelling at the Centre for Climate Research Singapore<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>SUMMER 2022<\/h3>\n<table style=\"width: 86.778%;height: 158px\" border=\"\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.64613%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">25 Apr 2022<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 23px;width: 27.911%;vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Cancelled<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 61.9292%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.64613%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">3 May<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 27.911%;height: 23px\"><strong>Matt Patterson<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of Oxford<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 61.9292%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">The role of external forcing in seasonal forecasts of European summer temperature<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.64613%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">9 May<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 27.911%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><strong>David Thompson<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of East Anglia \/ Colorado State University<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 61.9292%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">Understanding two key aspects of surface temperature variability<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.64613%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">16 May<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 27.911%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><strong>Amanda Maycock<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of Leeds<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 61.9292%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">Characterising present day and future North Atlantic atmospheric circulation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.64613%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\">23 May<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 27.911%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\"><strong>Qiang Fu<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of Washington<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 61.9292%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\">Stratospheric ozone and stratosphere-troposphere exchange in the Last Glacial Maximum<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.64613%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\">30 May<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 27.911%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\"><strong>Thomas Dubos<br \/>\n<\/strong>LMD Polytechnique<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 61.9292%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\">A systematic approach to the formulation of geophysical equations of motion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.64613%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">6 Jun<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 27.911%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><strong>Paulo Ceppi<br \/>\n<\/strong>Imperial College London<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 61.9292%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">Observational evidence that cloud feedback amplifies global warming<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.64613%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">21 Jun<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 27.911%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><strong>Masaki Satoh<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of Tokyo<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 61.9292%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">Evaluation of cloud and precipitation processes of NICAM toward a global large-eddy simulation: \u00a0research activities with NICAM on the supercomputer Fugaku<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>SPRING 2022<\/h3>\n<table style=\"width: 84.9541%;height: 224px\" border=\"\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.70414%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">10 Jan 2022<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 23px;width: 31.0059%\"><strong>Jonathan Wilkinson<br \/>\n<\/strong>Met Office<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 58.1065%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">What insights can be found when comparing synoptic weather patterns to lightning activity in Britain and Ireland?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.70414%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">17 Jan<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 23px;width: 31.0059%\"><strong>M. Marcello Miglietta<br \/>\n<\/strong>ISAC-CNR<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 58.1065%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">Mediterranean tropical-like cyclones (Medicanes)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.70414%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">24 Jan<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 31.0059%;height: 23px\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Cancelled<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 58.1065%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.70414%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">31 Jan<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 31.0059%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><strong>Maximilian Kotz<br \/>\n<\/strong>Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 58.1065%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">The economic cost of climate change \u2013 resolving the locality of climate impacts in time and space<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.70414%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">7 Feb<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 31.0059%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><strong>Alberto Arribas<br \/>\n<\/strong>Microsoft<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 58.1065%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">A changing climate? AI, net-zero, climate risk \u2026<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.70414%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\">14 Feb<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 31.0059%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Cancelled<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 58.1065%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.70414%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\">21 Feb<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 31.0059%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\"><strong>Johanna Baehr<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of Hamburg<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 58.1065%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\">Seasonal climate predictions: why sometimes less is more<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.70414%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">28 Feb<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 31.0059%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Cancelled<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 58.1065%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.70414%;vertical-align: middle;height: 22px\">7 Mar<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 31.0059%;vertical-align: middle;height: 22px\"><strong>Pavel Berloff<\/strong><br \/>\nImperial College London<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 58.1065%;vertical-align: middle;height: 22px\">Oceanic Eddy-Induced Transport: Full-Tensor Approach<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.70414%;vertical-align: middle;height: 22px\">14 Mar<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 31.0059%;vertical-align: middle;height: 22px\"><strong>Karen McKinnon<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of California, Los Angeles<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 58.1065%;vertical-align: middle;height: 22px\">What can we learn about future continental climate from the historical record? A story of the signal and the noise<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.70414%;vertical-align: middle;height: 22px\">21 Mar<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 31.0059%;vertical-align: middle;height: 22px\"><strong>Marika Holland<\/strong><br \/>\nNCAR<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 58.1065%;vertical-align: middle;height: 22px\">The Emergence and Transient Nature of Arctic Amplification<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>AUTUMN 2021<\/h3>\n<table style=\"width: 84.9541%;height: 191px\" border=\"\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 138.094px;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">27 Sep 2021<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 23px;width: 505.833px\"><strong>Jeff Walker<br \/>\n<\/strong>Monash University<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 1031.57px;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">Towards next-generation soil moisture mapping technology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 138.094px;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">4 Oct<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 23px;width: 505.833px\"><strong>Tim Woollings<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of Oxford<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 1031.57px;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">The role of Rossby waves in polar weather and climate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 138.094px;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">11 Oct<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 505.833px;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Cancelled<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 1031.57px;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 138.094px;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">18 Oct<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 505.833px;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><strong>Ian Eisenman<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of California, San Diego<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 1031.57px;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">Two Antarctic sea ice enigmas and proposed explanations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 138.094px;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">25 Oct<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 505.833px;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><strong>Cancelled<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 1031.57px;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 138.094px;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\">1 Nov<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 505.833px;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\"><strong>Jasper Kok<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of California, Los Angeles<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 1031.57px;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\">The mysterious abundance of coarse desert dust in Earth\u2019s atmosphere<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 138.094px;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\">8 Nov<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 505.833px;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Cancelled<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 1031.57px;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 138.094px;vertical-align: middle;height: 34px\">15 Nov<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 505.833px;vertical-align: middle;height: 34px\"><strong>Angela Morelli<br \/>\n<\/strong>InfoDesignLab<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 1031.57px;vertical-align: middle;height: 34px\">Visualizing data for impact: a participatory journey from data to storytelling<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 138.094px;vertical-align: middle;height: 22px\">22 Nov<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 505.833px;vertical-align: middle;height: 22px\"><strong>Ivana Stiperski<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of Innsbruck<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 1031.57px;vertical-align: middle;height: 22px\">Understanding turbulence in mountainous terrain<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 138.094px;vertical-align: middle;height: 22px\">29 Nov<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 505.833px;vertical-align: middle;height: 22px\"><strong>Panos Athanasiadis<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 1031.57px;vertical-align: middle;height: 22px\">Glimpses on the role of North Atlantic SST gradients in forcing large-scale atmospheric circulation responses \u2014 results from two separate studies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 138.094px;vertical-align: middle;height: 22px\">6 Dec<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 505.833px;vertical-align: middle;height: 22px\"><strong>Leo Hickman<\/strong><br \/>\nCarbon Brief<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 1031.57px;vertical-align: middle;height: 22px\">Climate Change in the Media &#8211; A journalist&#8217;s perspective<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>SUmmer 2021<\/h3>\n<table style=\"width: 84.9541%;height: 191px\" border=\"\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.85546%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">19 Apr 2021<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.3819%;height: 23px\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Cancelled<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 102.529%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.85546%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">26 Apr<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 23px;width: 23.3819%\"><strong>Caroline Hickman<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of Bath<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 102.529%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">Facing the difficult truths of the climate emergency; apocalyptic disaster or transformational moment in history?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.85546%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">4 May<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.3819%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><strong>Rebecca Willis<br \/>\n<\/strong>Lancaster University<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 102.529%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">More democracy, not less: The role of democratic participation for climate action<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.85546%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">10 May<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.3819%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><strong>Ana Bastos<br \/>\n<\/strong>MPI-BGC<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 102.529%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">Compound extreme events from an ecological perspective<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.85546%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">17 May<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.3819%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><strong>Martin Palkovic<br \/>\n<\/strong>ECMWF<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 102.529%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">Digital Twin of planet Earth \u2013 what does it mean for computing in meteorology?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.85546%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\">24 May<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.3819%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\"><strong>Paul Holland<br \/>\n<\/strong>BAS<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 102.529%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\">Influence of anthropogenic forcing on thinning of the Antarctic Ice Sheet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.85546%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\">1 Jun<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.3819%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\"><strong>Mary-Jane Bopape<br \/>\n<\/strong>South African Weather Service<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 102.529%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\">South African Weather Service weather and climate operations and research<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.85546%;vertical-align: middle;height: 34px\">7 Jun<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.3819%;vertical-align: middle;height: 34px\"><strong>James D. Doyle<br \/>\n<\/strong>Naval Research Laboratory<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 102.529%;vertical-align: middle;height: 34px\">Arctic Cyclones and the Influence on Short-Term Sea Ice Change and Moisture Transport<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.85546%;vertical-align: middle;height: 22px\">14 Jun<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.3819%;vertical-align: middle;height: 22px\"><strong>Sharanya J. Majumdar<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of Miami<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 102.529%;vertical-align: middle;height: 22px\">African Easterly Waves and Tropical Cyclogenesis: Mechanisms and Predictability<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>SPRING 2021<\/h3>\n<table style=\"width: 84.9541%;height: 259px\" border=\"\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.85546%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">11 Jan 2021<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.3819%;height: 23px\"><strong>Annika Reintges<\/strong><br \/>\nGEOMAR<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 102.529%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">Wind Stress-Induced Multiyear Predictability of Annual Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies in the Extratropical North Atlantic<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.85546%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">18 Jan<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 23px;width: 23.3819%\"><strong>Marie Drouard<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity Complutense of Madrid<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 102.529%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">Atmospheric blocking duration in the Northern Hemisphere<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.85546%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">25 Jan<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.3819%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Cancelled<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 102.529%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.85546%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">01 Feb<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.3819%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><strong>John Lynch<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of Oxford<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 102.529%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">Agriculture\u2019s contribution to climate change and mitigation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.85546%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">08 Feb<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.3819%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><strong>Tim Graham<br \/>\n<\/strong>Met Office<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 102.529%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">Global Atmosphere-Ocean Coupled NWP at the Met Office: towards operations and future developments<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.85546%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\">15 Feb<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.3819%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\"><strong>Sarah Dry<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>writer &amp; science historian<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 102.529%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\">How climate became global: the history of an idea in six lives<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.85546%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\">22 Feb<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.3819%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Cancelled<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 102.529%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.85546%;vertical-align: middle;height: 34px\">01 Mar<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.3819%;vertical-align: middle;height: 34px\"><strong>Christian Grams<br \/>\n<\/strong>Karlsruhe Institute of Technology<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 102.529%;vertical-align: middle;height: 34px\">Towards a dynamical understanding of predictability and forecast skill for weather regimes in the North Atlantic European region<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.85546%;vertical-align: middle;height: 22px\">08 Mar<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.3819%;vertical-align: middle;height: 22px\"><strong>Ann Webb<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of Manchester<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 102.529%;vertical-align: middle;height: 22px\">Maintaining Your Vitamin D Status: Climate vs Colour, Culture and Covid<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.85546%;vertical-align: middle;height: 34px\">15 Mar<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.3819%;vertical-align: middle;height: 34px\"><strong>Sebastian Sippel<\/strong><br \/>\nETH Zurich<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 102.529%;vertical-align: middle;height: 34px\">Characterizing and detecting climate signals in observations and models using statistical learning<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.85546%;vertical-align: middle;height: 34px\">22 Mar<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.3819%;vertical-align: middle;height: 34px\"><strong>Jennifer Catto<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of Exeter<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 102.529%;vertical-align: middle;height: 34px\">Stormy weather: understanding hazards from a weather system perspective<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>AUTUMN 2020<\/h3>\n<table border=\"\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.85546%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">28 Sep 2020<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.5502%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><strong><b>Regina R. Rodrigues<br \/>\n<\/b><\/strong>Federal University of Santa Catarina<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 102.529%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">Marine heatwaves in the South Atlantic in the context of compound extreme events in South America<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.85546%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">5 Oct<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.5502%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><strong>Emily Grossman<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 102.529%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">Emergency on Planet Earth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.85546%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">12 Oct<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.5502%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><strong>Claudia Di Napoli<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of Reading (Environmental Science)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 102.529%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">The human side of heat extremes: climatology and forecasting of heatwave-related health hazards<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.85546%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">19 Oct<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.5502%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><strong>Benjamin J. Murray<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of Leeds<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 102.529%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">Cloud-phase climate feedback and the importance of ice-nucleating particles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.85546%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">26 Oct<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.5502%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><strong>Elizabeth A. Barnes<\/strong><br \/>\nColorado State University<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 102.529%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">Viewing Climate Signals through an AI Lens<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.85546%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\">2 Nov<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.5502%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\"><strong>Laure Zanna<\/strong><br \/>\nNew York University<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 102.529%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\">Machine learning for physics-discovery and climate modeling<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.85546%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\">9 Nov<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.5502%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\"><strong><b>Maria-Paz <\/b><b>Zorzano<\/b> <b>Mier<\/b><\/strong><br \/>\nCentre of Astrobiology, INTA\/CSIC; Lule\u00e5 University of Technology<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 102.529%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\">Atmospheric observations of Mars, a multi-instrumental approach<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.85546%;vertical-align: middle;height: 34px\">16 Nov<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.5502%;vertical-align: middle;height: 34px\"><strong>Karina Williams<\/strong><br \/>\nMet Office<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 102.529%;vertical-align: middle;height: 34px\">Water stress in the JULES land-surface model<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.85546%;vertical-align: middle;height: 22px\">23 Nov<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.5502%;vertical-align: middle;height: 22px\"><strong>Marta Marcos<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of the Balearic Islands<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 102.529%;vertical-align: middle;height: 22px\">Observations and drivers of coastal sea level extremes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.85546%;vertical-align: middle;height: 34px\">30 Nov<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.5502%;vertical-align: middle;height: 34px\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Cancelled<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 102.529%;vertical-align: middle;height: 34px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 7.85546%;vertical-align: middle;height: 34px\">7 Dec<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.5502%;vertical-align: middle;height: 34px\"><strong>Penny Maher<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of Exeter<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 102.529%;vertical-align: middle;height: 34px\">The flexible modelling framework for the Met Office Unified Model (Flex-UM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>SUMMER 2020<\/h3>\n<table style=\"width: 100%\" border=\"\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 11.7795%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">20 Apr 2020<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 21.3853%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Cancelled<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 100.77%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 11.7795%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">27 Apr<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 21.3853%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><strong><b>Denis <\/b><b>Sergeev<br \/>\n<\/b><\/strong>University of Exeter<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 100.77%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">Atmospheric convection plays a key role in the climate of tidally-locked terrestrial exoplanets: insights from high-resolution simulations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 11.7795%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">4 May<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 21.3853%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><strong>Cristian Proistosescu<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of Illinois<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 100.77%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">We do live in the global mean: equilibrium climate sensitivity controls uncertainty in regional warming over the 21st century<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 11.7795%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">11 May<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 21.3853%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><strong>David Richardson<\/strong><br \/>\nECMWF<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 100.77%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">Verification and diagnostics at ECMWF \u2013 how we evaluate and understand the performance of the ECMWF forecasting system<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 11.7795%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">18 May<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 21.3853%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><strong>Stacey Hitchcock<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of Melbourne<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 100.77%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">The Environments and Dynamics of Heavy-Rain-Producing Mesoscale Convective Systems<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 11.7795%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">26 May<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 21.3853%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\"><strong>Flavio Lehner<\/strong><br \/>\nETH Zurich<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 100.77%;vertical-align: middle;height: 23px\">Partitioning and constraining uncertainties in climate projections<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\" valign=\"MIDDLE\">\n<td style=\"width: 11.7795%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\">1 Jun<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 21.3853%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\"><strong>Eun-Pa Lim<\/strong><br \/>\nBureau of Meteorology<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 100.77%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\">The 2019 Southern Hemisphere polar stratospheric warming<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 11.7795%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\">8 Jun<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 21.3853%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\"><strong>Kalli Furtado<\/strong><br \/>\nMet Office<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 100.77%;vertical-align: middle;height: 10px\">Evaluating and improving predictions of the east Asian climate: challenges and opportunities<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 11.7795%;vertical-align: middle;height: 34px\">15 Jun<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 21.3853%;vertical-align: middle;height: 34px\"><strong>Isla Simpson<\/strong><br \/>\nNCAR<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 100.77%;vertical-align: middle;height: 34px\">Multi-decadal variability in the North Atlantic jet stream, its connection to SST variability and implications for decadal predictability in Western Europe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 11.7795%;vertical-align: middle;height: 22px\">22 Jun<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 21.3853%;vertical-align: middle;height: 22px\"><strong>William Boos<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of California, Berkeley<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 100.77%;vertical-align: middle;height: 22px\">Monsoon depressions: \u00a0mechanisms and trends of high-impact storms at the edge of the Tropics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>SPRING 2020<\/h3>\n<table style=\"width: 63.088%;height: 467px\" border=\"\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 14.4847%;height: 40px\">13 Jan 2020<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 26.8802%;height: 40px\"><strong>Yuri Shprits<\/strong><br \/>\nGFZ (Germany) &amp; UCLA (USA)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.2423%;height: 40px\">Application of the meteorological tools to predict weather in space<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 10px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 14.4847%;height: 10px\">20 Jan<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 26.8802%;height: 10px\"><strong>Sonia Seneviratne<\/strong><br \/>\nETH<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.2423%;height: 10px\">Climate extremes at 1.5\u00b0C vs 2\u00b0C of global warming: The role of land processes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 14.4847%;height: 46px\">27 Jan<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 26.8802%;height: 46px\"><strong>Nadine Unger<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of Exeter<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.2423%;height: 46px\">Air pollution impacts on the carbon cycle and climate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 14.4847%;height: 46px\">3 Feb<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 26.8802%;height: 46px\"><strong>William Seviour<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of Bristol<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.2423%;height: 46px\">The impact of ozone depletion on Southern Ocean climate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 14.4847%;height: 46px\">10 Feb<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 26.8802%;height: 46px\"><strong>Nils Wedi<\/strong><br \/>\nECMWF<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.2423%;height: 46px\">Earth System Modelling at ECMWF &#8211; Progress and Challenges<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 49px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 14.4847%;height: 49px\">17 Feb<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 26.8802%;height: 49px\"><strong>Rachel James<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of Oxford<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.2423%;height: 49px\">Should water managers in African countries prepare for wetter or drier futures? Analysing modelled processes to improve information for decision makers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 14.4847%;height: 46px\">24 Feb<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 26.8802%;height: 46px\"><strong>Manuela Lehner<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of Innsbruck<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.2423%;height: 46px\">Transport and exchange in the mountain boundary layer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\">\n<td style=\"width: 14.4847%;height: 46px\">2 Mar<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 26.8802%;height: 46px\"><strong>Kristian Strommen<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of Oxford<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.2423%;height: 46px\">Jet Latitude Regimes and the Predictability of the North Atlantic Oscillation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\">\n<td style=\"width: 14.4847%;height: 46px\">9 Mar<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 26.8802%;height: 46px\"><strong>Florian Pappenberger<\/strong><br \/>\nECMWF<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.2423%;height: 46px\">The Megxit score: who is the best?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\">\n<td style=\"width: 14.4847%;height: 46px\">16 Mar<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 26.8802%;height: 46px\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Seminar cancelled<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.2423%;height: 46px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\">\n<td style=\"width: 14.4847%;height: 46px\">23 Mar<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 26.8802%;height: 46px\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Seminar cancelled<\/span><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.2423%;height: 46px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>AUTUMN 2019<\/h3>\n<table style=\"width: 62.7572%\" border=\"\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.04133%;height: 40px\">30 Sep 2019<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.8233%;height: 40px\"><strong>Magdalena Balmaseda<\/strong><br \/>\nECMWF<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 31.0956%;height: 40px\">Current research challenges in the predictability at subseasonal and seasonal time scales<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 10px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.04133%;height: 10px\">7 Oct<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.8233%;height: 10px\"><strong>Yohan Ruprich-Robert<\/strong><br \/>\nBarcelona Supercomputing Center<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 31.0956%;height: 10px\">The Atlantic Multidecadal Variablity: from its origins to its impacts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.04133%;height: 46px\">14 Oct<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.8233%;height: 46px\"><strong>Andrew Gettelman<\/strong><br \/>\nNCAR<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 31.0956%;height: 46px\">Through the Looking Glass: Cloud processes at the intersection of Climate Forcing and Feedback<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.04133%;height: 46px\">21 Oct<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.8233%;height: 46px\"><strong>Nigel Roberts<\/strong><br \/>\nMet Office @ Reading<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 31.0956%;height: 46px\">How to make use of convection-permitting ensemble forecasts \u2013 development of the new probabilistic post processing system called IMPROVER<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.04133%;height: 46px\">28 Oct<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.8233%;height: 46px\"><strong>Lizzie Kendon<\/strong><br \/>\nMet Office<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 31.0956%;height: 46px\">Future changes in extremes at convection-permitting scales<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 49px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.04133%;height: 49px\">4 Nov<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.8233%;height: 49px\"><strong>Cathy Hohenegger<\/strong><br \/>\nMPI Hamburg<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 31.0956%;height: 49px\">Is convective organization more than candy for the eyes?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.04133%;height: 46px\">11 Nov<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.8233%;height: 46px\"><strong>Irina Sandu<\/strong><br \/>\nECMWF<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 31.0956%;height: 46px\">How uncertainties in the representation of orography and its impacts affect the skill of weather forecasts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.04133%;height: 46px\">18 Nov<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.8233%;height: 46px\"><strong>Guy Dagan<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of Oxford<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 31.0956%;height: 46px\">Constraining the spatial scale of precipitation changes due to anthropogenic forcing using an atmospheric water and energy budget perspective<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.04133%;height: 46px\">25 Nov<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.8233%;height: 46px\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><b>Seminar cancelled<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 31.0956%;height: 46px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.04133%;height: 46px\">2 Dec<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.8233%;height: 46px\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><b>Seminar cancelled<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 31.0956%;height: 46px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.04133%;height: 46px\">9 Dec<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.8233%;height: 46px\"><strong>Stephen English<br \/>\n<\/strong>ECMWF<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 31.0956%;height: 46px\">Recent trends and future prospects for the assimilation of observations in Earth System prediction<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>SUMMER 2019<\/h3>\n<table border=\"\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 94px;height: 40px\">29 April 2019<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 183px;height: 40px\"><strong>Daniel Partridge<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of Exeter<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 399px;height: 40px\">A new approach for constraining the sources and transport of climate active aerosols over pristine regions in GCMs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 10px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 94px;height: 10px\">7 May<br \/>\n(Tuesday)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 183px;height: 10px\"><strong>Andreas Fink<\/strong><br \/>\nKarlsruhe Institute of Technology<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 399px;height: 10px\">The challenge to predict rainfall in West Africa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 94px;height: 46px\">13 May<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 183px;height: 46px\"><strong>Simon Dadson<\/strong><br \/>\nCEH Wallingford<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 399px;height: 46px\">Hydro-JULES: Next generation hydrological and land surface predictions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 94px;height: 46px\">20 May<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 183px;height: 46px\"><strong>Roberta D&#8217;Agostino<\/strong><br \/>\nMPI Hamburg<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 399px;height: 46px\">Northern Hemisphere monsoon response to mid\u2010Holocene orbital forcing and greenhouse gas\u2010induced\u00a0global warming<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 94px;height: 46px\">28 May<br \/>\n(Tuesday, Nike LT Agriculture)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 183px;height: 46px\"><strong>Cecilia Bitz<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of Washington<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 399px;height: 46px\">Polar Regions as Sentinels of Different Climate Change<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 49px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 94px;height: 49px\">3 June<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 183px;height: 49px\"><strong>Gregor Leckebusch<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of Birmingham<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 399px;height: 49px\">Understanding Variability of Severe Extra-Tropical Cyclones and Wind Storms<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 94px;height: 46px\">10 June<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 183px;height: 46px\"><strong>Wenmin Man<\/strong><br \/>\nInstitute of Atmospheric Physics, Beijing<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 399px;height: 46px\">ENSO and hydroclimate responses to volcanic eruptions at different latitudes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 94px\">24 June<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 183px\"><strong>Victoria Sinclair<br \/>\n<\/strong>University of Helsinki<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 399px\">The response of extra-tropical cyclones to warming in idealised aqua-planet simulations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>SPRING 2019<\/h3>\n<table style=\"width: 716px;height: 472px\" border=\"\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 94px;height: 46px\">14\u00a0 January 2019<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 183px;height: 46px\"><strong>Laure Zanna<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of Oxford<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 399px;height: 46px\"><em>Ocean Heat Uptake and Dynamic Sea Level: Past and Future Uncertainty<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 10px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 94px;height: 10px\">21 January<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 183px;height: 10px\"><strong>Maarten Ambaum<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of Reading<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 399px;height: 10px\"><i>Thermodynamic cycles in the stratosphere<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 94px;height: 46px\">28 January<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 183px;height: 46px\"><strong>Ian Boutle<\/strong><br \/>\nMet Office<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 399px;height: 46px\"><em>It&#8217;s all a bit foggy: from forecast busts to climate forcing!<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 94px;height: 46px\">4 February<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 183px;height: 46px\"><strong>Piers Forster<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of Leeds<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 399px;height: 46px\"><em>Simple climate models: worth their weight in code?<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 94px;height: 46px\">11 February<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 183px;height: 46px\"><strong>Penny Holliday<\/strong><br \/>\nNOC, Southampton<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 399px;height: 46px\"><em>Freshwater transport and storage in the subpolar North Atlantic<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 49px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 94px;height: 49px\">18 February<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 183px;height: 49px\"><strong>Chiara Marsigli<\/strong><br \/>\nDWD<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 399px;height: 49px\"><em>Verification of convective-scale ensembles: open issues from developer&#8217;s and user&#8217;s perspective<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 94px;height: 46px\">25 February<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 183px;height: 46px\"><strong>Joeri Rogelj<\/strong><br \/>\nImperial College London<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 399px;height: 46px\"><em>The science of 1.5\u00b0C &#8211;\u00a0from political call\u00a0to IPCC Special Report<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 94px;height: 46px\">4 March<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 183px;height: 46px\"><strong>Chris Brierley<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity College London<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 399px;height: 46px\"><em>Defining the preindustrial: impacts on exposure to warming and social justice<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 94px;height: 45px\">11 March<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 183px;height: 45px\"><strong>Paolo Davini<\/strong><br \/>\nInstitute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Bologna<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 399px;height: 45px\"><em>Atmospheric blocking simulation in global climate models: yesterday, today and tomorrow.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 94px;height: 46px\">18 March<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 183px;height: 46px\"><strong>Andreas Christen<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of Freiburg<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 399px;height: 46px\"><em>Using stable isotopes to attribute carbon dioxide sources in the urban atmosphere<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 94px;height: 46px\">25 March<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 183px;height: 46px\"><strong>Joe Galewsky<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of New Mexico<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 399px;height: 46px\"><em>The Drunkard&#8217;s Search: Constraining lower-tropospheric mixing with stable isotopologues of water vapor<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>AUTUMN 2018<\/h3>\n<table style=\"width: 769px;height: 472px\" border=\"\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 98px;height: 46px\">1 October 2018<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 190px;height: 46px\"><strong>Maisa Rojas Corradi<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversidad de Chile<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 441px;height: 46px\"><em>Recent climate change in Chile: Anthropogenic drying megadrought and projections<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 10px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 98px;height: 10px\">8 October<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 190px;height: 10px\"><strong>Noel Keenlyside<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of Bergen<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 441px;height: 10px\"><em>Is it important to reduce climate model biases?<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 98px;height: 46px\">15 October<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 190px;height: 46px\"><strong>Chris Taylor<\/strong><br \/>\nCEH, Wallingford<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 441px;height: 46px\"><em>Drivers of High Impact Weather in West Africa<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 98px;height: 46px\">22 October<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 190px;height: 46px\"><strong>Chiel van Heerwaarden<\/strong><br \/>\nWageningen University<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 441px;height: 46px\"><em>Simple models of convective aggregation and the role of the sea surface therein<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 98px;height: 46px\">29 October<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 190px;height: 46px\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><b>Seminar cancelled<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 441px;height: 46px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 49px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 98px;height: 49px\">5 November<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 190px;height: 49px\"><strong>Bruce Ingleby<\/strong><br \/>\nECMWF, Met Office<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 441px;height: 49px\"><em>Radiosondes and Numerical Weather Prediction<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 98px;height: 46px\">12 November<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 190px;height: 46px\"><strong>Nick Watkins<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of Warwick<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 441px;height: 46px\"><em>Fluctuations and correlations: space weather and earth climate<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 98px;height: 46px\">19 November<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 190px;height: 46px\"><strong>Franco Marenco<\/strong><br \/>\nMet Office<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 441px;height: 46px\"><em>Using lidar for aerosols and clouds, from aircraft and satellites: scientific and operational applications<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 98px;height: 45px\">26 November<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 190px;height: 45px\"><strong>Matt Rigby<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of Bristol<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 441px;height: 45px\"><em>Some challenges for\u00a0the Montreal Protocol, identified in recent atmospheric observations of ozone depleting substances<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 98px;height: 46px\">3 December<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 190px;height: 46px\"><strong>Hans Linderholm<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of Gothenburg<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 441px;height: 46px\"><em>Reconstructing the jet stream<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\" valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 98px;height: 46px\">10 December<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 190px;height: 46px\"><strong>Bob Beare<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of Exeter<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 441px;height: 46px\"><em>A simple model of a balanced boundary layer coupled to a large-scale convective circulation<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Summer 2018<\/h3>\n<table border=\"\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 94px\">16 April 2018<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 206px\"><strong>Florent Brient<\/strong><br \/>\nCNRM\/M\u00e9t\u00e9oFrance, Toulouse<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 411px\"><em>Tropical marine stratocumulus and their influence on the climate system<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 94px\">23 April<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 206px\"><strong>No Seminar<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 411px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 94px\">30 April<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 206px\"><strong>Chris Lintott<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of Oxford<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 411px\"><em>Tales from the Zooniverse<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 94px\">8 May (<em>Tuesday 1PM<\/em>)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 206px\"><strong>Adam Scaife<\/strong><br \/>\nMet Office<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 411px\"><em>A signal to noise paradox in climate science<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 94px\">14 May<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 206px\"><strong>Andrew Ross<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of Leeds (NCAS)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 411px\"><em>Forest canopy flows over hilly, heteorogeneous terrain &#8211; theory and experiments<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 94px\">21 May<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 206px\"><strong>Jean-Paul Vanderlinden<\/strong><br \/>\nCEARC, Paris<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 411px\"><em>Transdisciplinary climate studies: experimenting localized integrated art-science-policy approaches to knowledge production, sharing, and use<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 94px\">29 May (<em>Tuesday 1PM<\/em>)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 206px\"><strong>Peer Nowack<\/strong><br \/>\nImperial College London<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 411px\"><i>The representation of ozone in climate sensitivity simulations: from interactive chemistry to machine learning<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 94px\">4 June<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 206px\"><strong>Olivia Martius<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of Bern<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 411px\"><em>Recent hail research in Switzerland &#8211; the challenges and delights of complex orography and crowdsourced data<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Spring 2018<\/h3>\n<table border=\"\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 40px\"><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 360px\"><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 669px\"><b>Title<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 40px\">8 Jan<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 360px\"><b>Euan Nisbet\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nRoyal Holloway University<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 669px\">Methane and the Paris agreement<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 40px\">15 Jan<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 360px\"><b>Wei Chen\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nInstitute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 669px\">Anthropogenic influence on recent change in temperature extremes over China<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 40px\">22 Jan<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 360px\"><b>Aidan Brocklehurst\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nAON Benfield Impact Forecasting<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 669px\">A probabilistic catastrophe model for wind storms in Europe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 40px\">29 Jan<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 360px\"><b>Heather Graven\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nImperial College<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 669px\">Radiocarbon as a carbon cycle tracer in the 21st century<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 40px\">5 Feb<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 360px\"><b>Stephen Thomson\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Exeter<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 669px\">Atmospheric responses to SST anomalies: background-state dependence, teleconnections, and local effects<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 40px\">12 Feb<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 360px\"><b>Wendy Parker\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nDurham University<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 669px\">Let&#8217;s not confirm (or falsify) our models<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 40px\">19 Feb<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 360px\"><b>Ed Hawkins, Stephen Burt\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Reading<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 669px\">Operation Weather Rescue: to Ben Nevis and beyond<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 40px\">26 Feb<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 360px\"><b>Michelle Cain\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nOxford Martin School, University of Oxford<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 669px\">Climate metrics under ambitious mitigation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 40px\">5 Mar<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 360px\"><b>Yoko Tsushima\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nMet Office<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 669px\">Use of a Perturbed Parameter Ensemble to Understand Model Errors in Clouds and their Impact on Cloud Feedbacks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 40px\">12 Mar<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 360px\"><b>Jordi Vila\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 669px\">Evapotranspiration and cloud variability at regional sub-grid scales<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td style=\"width: 40px\">19 Mar<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 360px\"><b>Thomas Birner\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nColorado State University<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 669px\">The changing width of Earth&#8217;s tropical belt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Autumn 2017<\/h3>\n<table border=\"\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Title<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>25 Sep<\/td>\n<td><b>Stephen Yeager\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nNCAR<\/td>\n<td>Decadal climate prediction in the large ensemble limit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>2 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>Jun-Ichi Yano\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nCNRM, Toulouse<\/td>\n<td>Tropical Atmospheric Madden-Julian Oscillation: Strongly-Nonlinear Free Solitary Rossby Wave?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>9 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>Ivan Haigh\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nNOC, University of Southampton<\/td>\n<td>100 years of coastal flooding in the UK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>16 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>Maria Rugenstein\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nMPI Hamburg<\/td>\n<td>Equilibrating GCMs \u2013 the difference between effective and equilibrium climate sensitivity<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>23 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>Derek Posselt\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nJPL, Pasadena<\/td>\n<td>The Role of Cloud Processes in Weather-Climate Interactions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>30 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>Annica Ekman\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nStockholm University<\/td>\n<td>Finding links between regional air pollution reductions and climate using the Norwegian Earth System Model<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>6 Nov<\/td>\n<td><b>Jens Bange\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of T\u00fcbingen<\/td>\n<td>Using small unmanned research aircraft (UAV) for atmospheric turbulence measurements<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>13 Nov<\/td>\n<td><b>Daniel McCoy\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Leeds<\/td>\n<td>Insights into the effects of aerosols on cyclones from convection-permitting simulations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>20 Nov<\/td>\n<td><b>Stephen Briggs\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nEuropean Space Agency<\/td>\n<td>Climate change &#8211; observations, indicators and response<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>27 Nov<\/td>\n<td><b>Ed Gryspeerdt\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nImperial College<\/td>\n<td>Causality in the atmosphere: How do aerosols influence clouds?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>4 Dec<\/td>\n<td><b>Dieter Scherer\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nTU Berlin<\/td>\n<td>Regional climate studies in High Asia \u2013 How to map a terra incognita?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Summer 2017<\/h3>\n<table border=\"\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Title<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>18 Apr\u00a0<i>(Tuesday)<\/i><\/td>\n<td><b>Gabriel Chiodo\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nColumbia University, New York<\/td>\n<td>On the importance of ozone feedbacks in the climate system<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>24 Apr<\/td>\n<td><b>Hugo Lambert\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Exeter<\/td>\n<td>Land-ocean shifts in tropical precipitation under climate change<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>2 May\u00a0<i>(Tuesday 1PM)<\/i><\/td>\n<td><b>Peter Good\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nMet Office<\/td>\n<td>Nonlinear rainfall change: a tale of 2Ks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>8 May<\/td>\n<td><b>Tapio Schneider\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nCaltech, Pasadena<\/td>\n<td>How low clouds respond to warming: Observational, numerical, and physical constraints<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>15 May<\/td>\n<td><b>Chris Bretherton\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Washington, Seattle<\/td>\n<td>Ultraparameterization &#8211; global simulation of clouds with the grid resolution of large-eddy simulations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>22 May<\/td>\n<td><b>Mark McCarthy\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nMet Office<\/td>\n<td>The National Climate Information Centre: Accessing historical climate observations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>30 May\u00a0<i>(Tuesday)<\/i><\/td>\n<td><b>Hiro Masunaga\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Nagoya<\/td>\n<td>A simple model of tropical convection with a moisture storage closure<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>5 Jun<\/td>\n<td><b>Chris O&#8217;Reilly\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Oxford<\/td>\n<td>Seasonal forecast skill of Northern Hemisphere winters over the 20th century<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Spring 2017<\/h3>\n<table border=\"\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Title<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>9 Jan<\/td>\n<td><b>Jonathan Gregory\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>The inconstancy of transient climate response<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>16 Jan<\/td>\n<td><b>Celia Petty\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nEvidence for Development \/ Walker Institute<\/td>\n<td>Mapping the impact of climate data on rural livelihoods: new work in sub Saharan Africa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>23 Jan<\/td>\n<td><b>Peter Read\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Oxford<\/td>\n<td>Macroturbulent \u201ccascades\u201d of energy and enstrophy in models and observations of planetary atmospheres<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>30 Jan<\/td>\n<td><b>Stephan Pfahl\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nETH Zurich<\/td>\n<td>Understanding the regional pattern of changes in extreme precipitation in a warming climate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>6 Feb<\/td>\n<td><b>Estel Cardellach\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nIEC Barcelona<\/td>\n<td>Novel GPS applications for meteorology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>13 Feb<\/td>\n<td><b>Peter Janssen\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nECMWF<\/td>\n<td>Ocean Waves and Extreme events<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>20 Feb<\/td>\n<td><b>Yavor Kostov\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Oxford<\/td>\n<td>Understanding Southern Ocean SST Trends in Historical Simulations and Observations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>27 Feb<\/td>\n<td><b>Annalisa Cherchi\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nINGV, Italy<\/td>\n<td>The South Asian monsoon and the Mediterranean: a multi-model analysis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>6 Mar<\/td>\n<td><b>Daniela Domeisen\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nGEOMAR Kiel, Germany<\/td>\n<td>Atmospheric blocking and the connection to the stratosphere<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>13 Mar<\/td>\n<td><b>David Karoly\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Melbourne<\/td>\n<td>An Australasian hockey stick and associated climate wars<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>20 Mar<\/td>\n<td><b>Myles Allen\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Oxford<\/td>\n<td>The carbon budget for 1.5 degrees: does meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement mean geoengineering?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Autumn 2016<\/h3>\n<table border=\"\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Title<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>26 Sept<\/td>\n<td><b>Julian Mak\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Edinburgh<\/td>\n<td>Emergent eddy saturation from an energy constrained eddy parameterisation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>3 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>Pu Lin\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nGFDL<\/td>\n<td>Understanding climate changes in the UTLS region in response to anthropogenic forcings<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>10 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>Richard Seager\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nLDEO Columbia<\/td>\n<td>The California Drought<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>17 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>Veronique Ducrocq\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nMeteo-France and CNRS<\/td>\n<td>Understanding and predicting convective storms<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>24 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>Dim Coumou\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nPIK Potsdam<\/td>\n<td>Extreme Weather and Atmosphere Dynamics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>31 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>Thorsten Mauritsen\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nMPI Hamburg<\/td>\n<td>On the missing iris-effect<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>7 Nov<\/td>\n<td><b>Jakob Runge\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nImperial College London<\/td>\n<td>Causal inference methods in the geosciences<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>14 Nov<\/td>\n<td><b>Alan Blyth\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nNCAS Weather (Leeds)<\/td>\n<td>Investigation of heavy rainfall in convergence-line convection over the SW peninsula of England<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>21 Nov<\/td>\n<td><b>Kevin Trenberth\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nNCAR<\/td>\n<td>Implications of Earth&#8217;s energy imbalance for climate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>28 Nov<\/td>\n<td><b>Phil Gill\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nMet Office<\/td>\n<td>Development and verification of global aviation turbulence forecasts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>5 Dec<\/td>\n<td><b>Hannah Christensen\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nOxford<\/td>\n<td>The curious success of a simple stochastic scheme in weather and climate models<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Summer 2016<\/h3>\n<table border=\"\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Title<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>18 Apr<\/td>\n<td><b>Jim Haywood\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nMet Office<\/td>\n<td>The aerosol indirect effect: new evidence that second indirect effects are negligible<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>25 Apr<\/td>\n<td><b>Ming Bao\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nNanjing University<\/td>\n<td>Cluster analysis of Northern Hemisphere wintertime 500-hPa flow regimes during 1920-2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>3 May<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><b>Seminar cancelled<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>9 May<\/td>\n<td><b>Joanna Haigh\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nImperial<\/td>\n<td>The Earth&#8217;s entropy budget and climate change<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>16 May<\/td>\n<td><b>Yohai Kaspi\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nWeizmann Institute<\/td>\n<td>Dynamics of eddy-driven jets and macroturbulent scales in the atmosphere<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>23 May<\/td>\n<td><b>Gerd Folberth\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nMet Office<\/td>\n<td>The biosphere: More than just a boundary condition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>31 May<\/td>\n<td><b>Richard Forbes\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nECMWF<\/td>\n<td>Microphysics Matters? A Global Perspective<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>6 Jun<\/td>\n<td><b>Richard Rotunno\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nNCAR<\/td>\n<td>The Fluid Dynamics of Tornadoes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Spring 2016<\/h3>\n<table border=\"\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Title<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>11 Jan<\/td>\n<td><b>Philip Brohan\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nMet Office<\/td>\n<td>Heroism and disaster: two centuries of reanalysis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>18 Jan<\/td>\n<td><b>Thomas Melvin and Chris Maynard\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nMet Office<\/td>\n<td>LFRic and other animals: Designing and building a software infrastructure for a new dynamical core on Exascale Architectures<br \/>\nGungHo! \u2013 A scalable dynamical core for weather and climate prediction<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>25 Jan<\/td>\n<td><b>Pierre Gauthier\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversite du Quebec a Montreal<\/td>\n<td>Assessment of the dynamical balance of regional climate models using physical tendencies and data assimilation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>1 Feb<\/td>\n<td><b>Ray Pierrehumbert\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Oxford<\/td>\n<td>Climate impact of beef production: An analysis without global warming potentials<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>8 Feb<\/td>\n<td><b>Lucy Cradden\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity College Dublin<\/td>\n<td>Wind energy generation in Ireland &#8211; meteorological patterns and their impacts on the power system<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>15 Feb<\/td>\n<td><b>Paul Valdes\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Bristol<\/td>\n<td>Tuning GCM&#8217;s with palaeoclimate data<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>22 Feb<\/td>\n<td><b>Patrick Hyder\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nMet Office<\/td>\n<td>Air-sea exchange variability and its atmosphere\/ocean model resolution-dependence in HadGEM3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>29 Feb<\/td>\n<td><b>Friederike Otto\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Oxford<\/td>\n<td>Thermodynamics vs. dynamics &#8211; a holistic approach to extreme event attribution<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>7 Mar<\/td>\n<td><b>Ileana Blade Mendoza\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Barcelona<\/td>\n<td>The summer NAO in observations and CMIP models: impacts on precipitation and sea-ice projected trends<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>14 Mar<\/td>\n<td><b>David Thompson\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nColorado State University<\/td>\n<td>Estimating the role of internal climate variability in future climate trends<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>21 Mar<\/td>\n<td><b>Samar Khatiwala\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Oxford<\/td>\n<td>Constraining ocean ventilation pathways and time scales with observations and models<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Autumn 2015<\/h3>\n<table border=\"\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Title<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>28 Sep<\/td>\n<td><b>Liam Brannigan\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Oxford<\/td>\n<td>Intense PV mixing and nutrient upwelling in ocean anti-cyclones caused by submesoscale instabilities<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>5 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>Rupert Klein\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nFreie Universitaet Berlin<\/td>\n<td>Multi-scale asymptotic analyses of atmospheric motions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>12 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>David Ridley\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nMIT<\/td>\n<td>Multi-decadal changes in aerosol: Insight into the drivers and effects of mineral dust, carbonaceous and volcanic sulphate particles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>19 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>Stefan Siegert\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Exeter<\/td>\n<td>Correlation and beyond: A recipe for forecast verification<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>26 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>Caroline Muller\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nCNRS<\/td>\n<td>Self-aggregation of atmospheric convection in idealized simulation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>2 Nov<\/td>\n<td><b>Thomas Spengler\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Bergen<\/td>\n<td>Polar lows<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>9 Nov<\/td>\n<td><b>Alejandra Sanchez-Franks\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nNOCS<\/td>\n<td>Impact of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation on the decadal variability of the Gulf Stream path and regional chlorophyll and nutrient concentrations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>16 Nov<\/td>\n<td><b>Beth Ebert\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nBureau of Meteorology<\/td>\n<td>How good is it? Improving how we assess forecasts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>23 Nov<\/td>\n<td><b>Sandra Chapman\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nWarwick University<\/td>\n<td>A data centred method to estimate and map changes in the full distribution of daily temperature and precipitation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>30 Nov<\/td>\n<td><b>Joseph Daron\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nMet Office<\/td>\n<td>Generating and communicating climate information to guide development and adaptation decisions in developing countries<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>7 Dec<\/td>\n<td><b>Jan Zika\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nImperial College London<\/td>\n<td>Observed amplification of the global water cycle and its impact on the energetics of the atmosphere<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Summer 2015<\/h3>\n<table border=\"\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Title<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>20 Apr<\/td>\n<td><b>Stephen Briggs\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nEuropean Space Agency<\/td>\n<td>Climate Observations and the Contribution of Space<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>27 Apr<\/td>\n<td><b>Mark Webb\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUK Met Office<\/td>\n<td>The impact of parametrized convection on cloud feedback<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>5 May<\/td>\n<td><b>Wouter Berghuijs\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Bristol<\/td>\n<td>Alteration of Mean Streamflow and Evaporation Under Snow Loss<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>11 May<\/td>\n<td><b>Tobias Kuna and Steve Langdon\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Reading<\/td>\n<td>Mathematical research with meteorological applications in Reading<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>18 May<\/td>\n<td><b>Geoff Vallis\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Exeter<\/td>\n<td>Response of the large-scale structure of the atmosphere to global warming<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>26 May<\/td>\n<td><b>Tamsin Edwards\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nThe Open University<\/td>\n<td>Potential sea level rise from Antarctic ice sheet instability constrained by observations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>1 Jun<\/td>\n<td><b>Chris Chen\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nImperial College London<\/td>\n<td>Turbulence in the Solar Wind: Recent Advances<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>8 Jun<\/td>\n<td><b>Michael de Podesta\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nNational Physical Laboratory<\/td>\n<td>How do we really know what the temperature is?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Spring 2015<\/h3>\n<table border=\"\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Title<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>12 Jan<\/td>\n<td><b>Eugene Clothiaux\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nPenn State University<\/td>\n<td>Coherent Scattering from Cloud Drops and Ice Crystals<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>19 Jan<\/td>\n<td><b>David Battisti\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Washington<\/td>\n<td>The impact of Increased CO2 on Summertime Temperature Variability<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>26 Jan<\/td>\n<td><b>Adam Levy\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Oxford<\/td>\n<td>Rain, Brains and Climate Change: improving understanding of regional precipitation with medical image registration techniques<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>2 Feb<\/td>\n<td><b>Ruth Doherty\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Edinburgh<\/td>\n<td>TBC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>9 Feb<\/td>\n<td><b>Sheldon Bacon\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nNational Oceanography Centre<\/td>\n<td>North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean Circulation and Fluxes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>16 Feb<\/td>\n<td><b>Cathryn Birch\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nMet Office \/ University of Leeds<\/td>\n<td>The role of convection in the water cycle of the West African Monsoon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>23 Feb<\/td>\n<td><b>Richard Scott\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of St Andrews<\/td>\n<td>Barotropic sudden warming and internal variability of the winter stratosphere<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>2 Mar<\/td>\n<td><b>Ben Taylor\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nPlymouth Marine Laboratory<\/td>\n<td>The NERC Earth Observation Data Acquisition and Analysis Service (NEODAAS): Science, Support and Access<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>9 Mar<\/td>\n<td><b>James Screen\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Exeter<\/td>\n<td>Weighing the evidence for and against more frequent extreme midlatitude weather in response to Arctic warming<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>16 Mar<\/td>\n<td><b>Craig Bishop\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nNaval Research Laboratory<\/td>\n<td>Climate model dependence and the Ensemble Dependence Transformation of CMIP projections<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>23 Mar<\/td>\n<td><b>Steve Rumbold\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nMet Office<\/td>\n<td>Ammonium nitrate aerosol in UKESM1 &#8212; It&#8217;s a semi-volatile situation!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Autumn 2014<\/h3>\n<table border=\"\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Title<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>29 Sep<\/td>\n<td><b>Johannes Laube\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of East Anglia<\/td>\n<td>Newly detected ozone-depleting and greenhouse gases in the atmosphere<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>6 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>Cathy Hohenegger\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nMax Planck Institute for Meteorology<\/td>\n<td>Controls on and representation of land-atmosphere interactions across scales<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>13 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>Clara Deser\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nNational Center for Atmospheric Research<\/td>\n<td>Uncertainty in climate change projections: the role of internal atmospheric circulation variability<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>20 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>Christoph Schaer\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nETH Zurich<\/td>\n<td>Towards convection-resolving climate simulations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>27 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>Edmund Henley\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUK Met Office<\/td>\n<td>Thermospheric data assimilation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>3 Nov<\/td>\n<td><b>John Scinocca\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nEnvironment Canada<\/td>\n<td>The impact of model fidelity on climate projections and climate predictions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>10 Nov<\/td>\n<td><b>Aarnout Van Delden\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nIMAU \/ Utrecht University<\/td>\n<td>Diabatic-dynamical interaction in the general circulation of the atmosphere<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>17 Nov<\/td>\n<td><b>Kwinten Van Weverberg\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUK Met Office<\/td>\n<td>Evaluation of clouds in climate models using ARM-data: a time-step approach<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>24 Nov<\/td>\n<td><b>Peter Cox and Chris Huntingford\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Exeter and Center for Ecology and Hydrology<\/td>\n<td>Climate Variability: How it is changing and what it tells us about the future<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>1 Dec<\/td>\n<td><b>Grae Worster\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Cambridge<\/td>\n<td>Dynamics of marine ice sheets<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>8 Dec<\/td>\n<td><b>Anne Mathers Lawrence\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Reading<\/td>\n<td>Climate Patterns and Meteorological Disasters in Medieval Thought<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Summer 2014<\/h3>\n<table border=\"\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Title<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>28 Apr<\/td>\n<td><b>Andy Elvidge\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of East Anglia<\/td>\n<td>Foehn warming and foehn jets: the Antarctic Peninsula as a natural laboratory<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>6 May<\/td>\n<td><b>Adam Scaife\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUK Met Office<\/td>\n<td>Long range predictability of the North Atlantic Oscillation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>12 May<\/td>\n<td><b>Sukyoung Lee\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nPennsylvania State University<\/td>\n<td>A theory for polar amplification from a general circulation perspective<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>19 May<\/td>\n<td><b>Chris Taylor\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nCentre for Ecology and Hydrology (UK)<\/td>\n<td>Understanding land impacts on weather using earth observation data<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>27 May<\/td>\n<td><b>Elie Bou Zeid\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nPrinceton University<\/td>\n<td>New insights into the dynamics of the stable atmospheric boundary layer from direct and large-eddy simulations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>4 Jun<\/td>\n<td><b>Steve Sherwood\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of New South Wales<\/td>\n<td>Rethinking the dynamics of convection from meso to thermal scale<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>9 Jun<\/td>\n<td><b>Ellie Highwood and Simon Chandler-Wilde\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Reading<\/td>\n<td>The Athena Swan Project<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>16 Jun<\/td>\n<td><b>Helen Brindley\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nImperial College London<\/td>\n<td>TBC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>23 Jun<\/td>\n<td><b>Tobias Zinner\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nLudwig Maximilians University Munich<\/td>\n<td>3D cloud side remote sensing &#8211; Droplet radius and its link to aerosol properties<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>30 Jun<\/td>\n<td><b>no departmental seminar\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>because of MSc oral exams<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>7 Jul<\/td>\n<td><b>Olivia Romppainen-Martius\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Bern<\/td>\n<td>Extreme weather events in Switzerland &#8211; story lines and processes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Spring 2014<\/h3>\n<table border=\"\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Title<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>13 Jan<\/td>\n<td><b>Detlef Mueller\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Hertfordshire<\/td>\n<td>East Asian pollution observed with Raman Lidar in South Korea<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>20 Jan<\/td>\n<td><b>Tyrone Dunbar\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUK Government, Department of Energy and Climate Change<\/td>\n<td>TBC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>27 Jan<\/td>\n<td><b>Mike Herman\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nNew Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology<\/td>\n<td>The Spectral Weak Temperature Gradient Approximation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>3 Feb<\/td>\n<td><b>Shuhua Chen\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of California, Davis<\/td>\n<td>Dust and weather<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>10 Feb<\/td>\n<td><b>Nigel Fox\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nNational Physical Laboratory<\/td>\n<td>Metrology for Earth Observation and Climate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>17 Feb<\/td>\n<td><b>David Marshall\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Oxford<\/td>\n<td>A geometric framework for interpreting and parameterising geostrophic ocean turbulence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>24 Feb<\/td>\n<td><b>Adrian Raftery\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Washington<\/td>\n<td>Probabilistic weather forecasting: recent developments in Bayesian model averaging<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>3 Mar<\/td>\n<td><b>Afandi Darlington\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUK Government, Department for Transport, Air Accidents Investigation Branch<\/td>\n<td>Weather &#8212; its role in aircraft accidents<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>10 Mar<\/td>\n<td><b>Mai Mai Lam\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nBritish Antarctic Survey<\/td>\n<td>Response of the polar troposphere and stratosphere to changes in the global atmospheric electric circuit associated with solar wind variability<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>17 Mar<\/td>\n<td><b>Jeurg Beer\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nSwiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology<\/td>\n<td>TBC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Autumn 2013<\/h3>\n<table border=\"\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Title<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>30 Sep (Nike LT)<\/td>\n<td><b>Dennis Hartmann\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Washington<\/td>\n<td>Trends and Variability in Southern Ocean Clouds and their Relation to Climate Change<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>7 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>John Thuburn\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Exeter<\/td>\n<td>Mimetic Numerical Methods for Weather and Climate Prediction<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>14 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>Alex Chartier\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Bath<\/td>\n<td>Ionospheric Data Assimilation and Forecasting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>21 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>Gilbert Brunet\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nMet Office<\/td>\n<td>Sub-seasonal Predictability And Dynamical Processes: The Two-way MJO and NAO Interaction<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>28 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>Richard Seager\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nColumbia University<\/td>\n<td>The Importance of the Montreal Protocol for Protecting the Earth&#8217;s Hydroclimate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>4 Nov<\/td>\n<td><b>Kate Willett\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nMet Office<\/td>\n<td>The International Surface Temperature Initiative (ISTI): Dragging land surface temperature data kicking and screaming into the 21st Century<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>11 Nov<\/td>\n<td><b>Jon Blower\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nReading e-Science Centre<\/td>\n<td>The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to Open Data<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>18 Nov<\/td>\n<td><b>Stephen Blenkinsopp\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nNewcastle University<\/td>\n<td>Hourly and multi-hourly precipitation climatology in the UK and variability in extremes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>25 Nov<\/td>\n<td><b>Fiona O&#8217;Connor\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nMet Office<\/td>\n<td>Climate forcing from potential methane releases from permafrost, wetlands, and marine hydrates<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>2 Dec<\/td>\n<td><b>Beatriz Monge-Sanz\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nECMWF<\/td>\n<td>Is stratospheric air getting younger with time?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>9 Dec<\/td>\n<td><b>Lee Miller\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nMax-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry<\/td>\n<td>Recent advancements in estimating power potentials and climatic impacts of renewable energy technologies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Summer 2013<\/h3>\n<table cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Title<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>15 Apr<\/td>\n<td><b>Shaun Lovejoy\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nMcGill University<\/td>\n<td>Emergent atmospheric laws: Why the weather and the climate are not what you expect<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>22 Apr: Madejski LT<\/td>\n<td><b>Tim Palmer\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Oxford<\/td>\n<td>Stochastic Parametrisation: Six Reasons For, One reason against<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>29 Apr<\/td>\n<td><b>Erland K\u00e4ll\u00e9n\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nECMWF<\/td>\n<td>Factors influencing skill improvements in the ECMWF forecasting system<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>7 May: Tuesday 1pm<\/td>\n<td><b>Karen Heywood\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of East Anglia<\/td>\n<td>Ocean processes at the Antarctic continental slope &#8211; or five ways to lose a Seaglider?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>13 May<\/td>\n<td><b>Liz Morris\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nScott Polar Reseach Institute<\/td>\n<td>Mukluks on the snow: ground truth experiments in support of CryoSat<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>28 May: Tuesday 1pm<\/td>\n<td><b>Jean-Noel Thepaut\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nECMWF<\/td>\n<td>Climate reanalysis at ECMWF<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>3 Jun<\/td>\n<td><b>Richard Chandler\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity College London<\/td>\n<td>Exploiting strength, discounting weakness: combining information from multiple climate simulators<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>10 Jun: 1pm<\/td>\n<td><b>Andy Shepherd\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Leeds<\/td>\n<td>A reconciled estimate of ice sheet mass balance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>17 Jun<\/td>\n<td><b>Erich Fischer\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nETH Zurich<\/td>\n<td>Summer heat waves in a changing climate: Driving mechanisms, projections, uncertainties and impacts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>24 Jun<\/td>\n<td><b>Eric Guilyardi\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nIPSL Paris\/NCAS-Climate<\/td>\n<td>Understanding ENSO in climate models: from statistics to process-based metrics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>1 Jul<\/td>\n<td><b>Sandy Harrison\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Reading<\/td>\n<td>Evaluation of the CMIP5 simulations using palaeoreconstructions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>22 Jul<\/td>\n<td><b>Gang Chen\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nCornell University<\/td>\n<td>Wave activity, eddy diffusivity, and the jet variability<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Spring 2013<\/h3>\n<table cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Title<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>7 Jan<\/td>\n<td><b>Rym Msadek\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nGFDL\/NOAA and UCAR<\/td>\n<td>Decadal predictions of Atlantic variability: promise and limitations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>14 Jan<\/td>\n<td><b>Byron Drew, Tony Ramsay\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nMetraWeather<\/td>\n<td>Commercial Meteorology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>28 Jan<\/td>\n<td><b>Alan Grant\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Reading<\/td>\n<td>The Secret and Sordid World of Parametrization<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>4 Feb<\/td>\n<td><b>Drew Purves\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nMicrosoft Research, Cambridge<\/td>\n<td>Balanced Complexity modelling of the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>11 Feb<\/td>\n<td><b>Thordis Thorarinsdottir\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nNorwegian Computing Center<\/td>\n<td>Recovering the multivariate dependencies of statistically post-processed ensemble forecasts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>18 Feb<\/td>\n<td><b>Apostolos Voulgarakis\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nImperial College<\/td>\n<td>Using composition-climate models to understand global and regional radiative forcing-response relationships<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>19 Feb Tuesday 1pm<\/td>\n<td><b>Sandrine Bony\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nLMD\/CNRS<\/td>\n<td>How much will future changes in tropical circulation and precipitation depend on global warming?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>25 Feb<\/td>\n<td><b>Michael McIntyre\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Cambridge<\/td>\n<td>Some musings on science in general and atmospheric dynamics in particular, with remarks on differential rotation within the Sun and on Jupiter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>4 Mar<\/td>\n<td><b>Robin Chadwick\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nMet Office<\/td>\n<td>Spatial Patterns of Precipitation Change in CMIP5: Why the Rich don&#8217;t get Richer in the Tropics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>11 Mar<\/td>\n<td><b>Alan Thorpe\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nECMWF<\/td>\n<td>Superstorm Sandy: best ever numerical weather prediction?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>18 Mar<\/td>\n<td><b>Isaac Held\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nGFDL\/NOAA<\/td>\n<td>Some Approaches to Climate Theory<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Autumn 2012<\/h3>\n<table cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Title<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>15 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>Paul Bates\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniveristy of Bristol<\/td>\n<td>Observation and modelling of global surface water flows<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>22 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>Peter Hitchcock\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Cambridge<\/td>\n<td>Arctic Polar-night Jet Oscillation Events<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>29 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>Jim Wild\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nLancaster University<\/td>\n<td>Geomagnetically induced currents: a space weather hazard to electricity supply infrastructure<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>5 Nov<\/td>\n<td><b>David Randall\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nColorado State University<\/td>\n<td>Simulations of tropical variability with a super-parameterization<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>12 Nov<\/td>\n<td><b>Steven Abel\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nMet Office<\/td>\n<td>Why does it always rain on me? Improving the representation of drizzle in the Unified Model<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>19 Nov<\/td>\n<td><b>Kathryn McWilliams\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Saskatchewan<\/td>\n<td>Influences of the Interplanetary Magnetic Field on the Earth&#8217;s Ionosphere<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>26 Nov<\/td>\n<td><b>Todd Ringler\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nLos Alamos National Laboratory<\/td>\n<td>A Multi-Resolution Modeling Approach for Global Climate Simulation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>3 Dec<\/td>\n<td><b>Jane Mulcahy\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nMet Office<\/td>\n<td>Representation and impacts of aerosols in the Met Office global NWP model<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>10 Dec<\/td>\n<td><b>Leon Hermanson\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nMet Office<\/td>\n<td>Enabling decadal prediction through the assimilation of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 26N<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Summer 2012<\/h3>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Title<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>16 Apr<\/td>\n<td><b>Paul O&#8217;Gorman\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nMIT<\/td>\n<td>The response of mean and extreme precipitation to climate change: theory, simulations, and observations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>23 Apr<\/td>\n<td><b>Glenn Shutts\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nMet Office<\/td>\n<td>Stochastic physics and its justification<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>30 Apr<\/td>\n<td><b>Roger Stern\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nStatistical Services Centre<\/td>\n<td>Climatic variability and change &#8211; using the historical records to add extra value<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>8 May (Tuesday)<\/td>\n<td><b>Stuart Webster\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nMet Office<\/td>\n<td>Kilometre-scale Unified Model simulations of super-typhoon Megi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>21 May<\/td>\n<td><b>Tamsin Mather\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Oxford<\/td>\n<td>Volcanoes and their atmospheric impacts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>28 May<\/td>\n<td><b>Pavel Berloff\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nImperial College<\/td>\n<td>Conundrum of geostrophic turbulence in the oceans: Multiple alternating jets, waves and vortices<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>11 Jun<\/td>\n<td><b>Ray Bates\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity College Dublin<\/td>\n<td>Climate stability and sensitivity in some simple conceptual models<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>19 Jun: 1pm (Tuesday)<\/td>\n<td><b>Dmitry M. Sonechkin\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nP. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology<\/td>\n<td>On the role of natural factors in the current climate change: Climatic perspectives for nearest and more distant future<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>25 Jun<\/td>\n<td><b>Anna Chuter\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nUniversity of Surrey<\/td>\n<td>The analysis of DALEC, a simple carbon cycle model<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Spring 2012<\/h3>\n<table cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Title<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>16 Jan<\/td>\n<td><b>Naomi Vaughan\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Tyndall Centre for climate change research)<\/td>\n<td>Could solar geoengineering help or hinder climate change mitigation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>23 Jan<\/td>\n<td><b>Timothy Gill\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(National Air Traffic Control Service)<\/td>\n<td>Environment and airspace efficiency: NATS UK airspace<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>30 Jan<\/td>\n<td><b>Seymour Laxon\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University College London)<\/td>\n<td>When will the Arctic become ice free?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>6 Feb<\/td>\n<td><b>Tim Andrews\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Met Office)<\/td>\n<td>Forcing, feedbacks and climate sensitivity in CMIP5 couple atmosphere-ocean climate models<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>13 Feb<\/td>\n<td><b>Pascal Marquet\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Meteo France)<\/td>\n<td>On the use of different forms of available energies or exergy in Meteorology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>20 Feb<\/td>\n<td><b>Cyril Morcrette\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Met Office)<\/td>\n<td>Nephological conjuring: Do better clouds lead to better cloud scores?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>27 Feb<\/td>\n<td><b>Tim Jupp\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of Exeter)<\/td>\n<td>On the visualisation, verification and recalibration of ternary probabilistic forecasts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>5 Mar<\/td>\n<td><b>Anja Schmidt\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of Leeds)<\/td>\n<td>Large-scale icelandic flood lava eruptions: from aerosol microphysical processes to human health impacts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>12 Mar<\/td>\n<td><b>Christoph Gebhardt\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(DWD, Germany)<\/td>\n<td>Limited-area Ensemble Prediction Systems: general aspects and the COSMO-DE EPS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>20 Mar<\/td>\n<td><b>Kevin Trenberth\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(NCAR, USA)<\/td>\n<td>Climate extremes and climate change: The Russian Heat Wave and other Climate Extremes of 2010 and 2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Autumn 2011<\/h3>\n<table cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Title<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>10 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>George Bryan\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(NCAR)<\/td>\n<td>Reconciling observations and numerical simulations of a mesoscale convective system<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>17 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>Ben Webber\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of East Anglia)<\/td>\n<td>The Dynamical Ocean Component of the Madden-Julian Oscillation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>24 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>Alina Barbulescu\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Ovidus University of Constanta)<\/td>\n<td>Models for precipitation and temperature evolution. Case study: the Black Sea region.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>31 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>Annika Sepp\u00e4l\u00e4\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(British Antarctic Survey)<\/td>\n<td>Solar effects on the polar atmosphere: The role of energetic particle precipitation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>7 Nov<\/td>\n<td><b>Gareth Thomas\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of Oxford)<\/td>\n<td>Producing atmospheric aerosol data for climate science from satellite remote sensing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>14 Nov<\/td>\n<td><b>Kevin Horsburgh\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(National Oceanography Centre)<\/td>\n<td>European storm surges in a future climate: where has all the weather gone?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>21 Nov<\/td>\n<td><b>John Marsham\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of Leeds)<\/td>\n<td>Recent observations of elevated mesoscale convective systems in the UK and USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>28 Nov<\/td>\n<td><b>Phillipe Keckhut\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(LATMOS)<\/td>\n<td>Monitoring the middle atmosphere with lidar in complement with satellite observations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>5 Dec<\/td>\n<td><b>Pedro Miranda\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of Lisbon)<\/td>\n<td>EC-Earth model development and results<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>12 Dec<\/td>\n<td><b>David Southwood\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Imperial College London)<\/td>\n<td>Space in a Modern Society<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Summer 2011<\/h3>\n<table cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Title<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>3 May<\/td>\n<td><b>Andrea Kaiser-Weiss\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of Reading)<\/td>\n<td>Sea Surface Temperature as observed from space &#8211; limits and challenges<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>9 May<\/td>\n<td><b>Gabi Hegerl\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of Edinburgh)<\/td>\n<td>Causes of change in European climate over the last few centuries<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>16 May<\/td>\n<td><b>Peter Knippertz\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of Leeds)<\/td>\n<td>Dust Storms &#8212; A Great Challenge on the Way to Earth System Modelling<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>31 May<\/td>\n<td><b>Bob Molinari\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(National Oceanography Centre, Southampton)<\/td>\n<td>CLIVAR: The Present, Future and Research Opportunities<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>6 June<\/td>\n<td><b>Mike Ellis\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(British Geological Survey)<\/td>\n<td>Climate Change Research at the British Geological Survey<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>13 June<\/td>\n<td><b>Oleg Saenko\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis)<\/td>\n<td>Subduction and overturning in a warmer ocean<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>20 June<\/td>\n<td><b>Kevin Horsburgh\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool)<\/td>\n<td>European storm surges in a future climate: where has all the weather gone?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Spring 2011<\/h3>\n<table cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Title<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>17 January<\/td>\n<td><b>Colm Caulfield\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of Cambridge)<\/td>\n<td>Too much of a good thing? The efficiency of stratified mixing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>24 January<\/td>\n<td><b>Adrian Simmons\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(ECMWF)<\/td>\n<td>Monitoring and short-term forecasting of atmospheric composition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>31 January<\/td>\n<td><b>James Tate\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of Leeds)<\/td>\n<td>Trends in UK vehicle emissions: How conflicting PM10, NOX and CO2 priorities have led to ambient NOX and NO2 concentrations levelling off in recent years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>7 February<\/td>\n<td><b>Mark Macklin\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of Wales)<\/td>\n<td>UK flooding and climate change: a long-term geomorphological perspective on adaption and mitigation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>14 February<\/td>\n<td><b>Myles Allen\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of Oxford)<\/td>\n<td>Constraining future climate &#8212; from climateprediction.net to the trillionth tonne<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>21 February<\/td>\n<td><b>Arnaud Czaja\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Imperial College)<\/td>\n<td>A new mechanism for ocean-atmosphere coupling in midlatitudes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>28 February<\/td>\n<td><b>Rodrigo Caballero\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University College Dublin, Ireland)<\/td>\n<td>Climate dynamics under supergreenhouse conditions in a GCM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>7 March<\/td>\n<td><b>Susan Solomon\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(NOAA ESRL, USA)<\/td>\n<td>Antarctic and global climate change: Stratospheric connections<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>14 March<\/td>\n<td><b>Martin Visbeck\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(IFM-GEOMAR, Germany)<\/td>\n<td>Impact of the Southern Annual Mode on the Southern Ocean stratification and circulation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>21 March<\/td>\n<td><b>Tamsin Edwards\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of Bristol)<\/td>\n<td>The power of the past: using palaeoclimate data to quantify uncertainties in climate prediction<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Autumn 2010<\/h3>\n<table cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Title<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>11 October<\/td>\n<td><b>Mel Sandells\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of Reading, NCEO, ESSC)<\/td>\n<td>From field site modelling to global observations of snow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>18 October<\/td>\n<td><b>Martin Widmann\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of Birmingham)<\/td>\n<td>Correction of GCM-simulated precipitation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>25 October<\/td>\n<td><b>Matthias Zahn\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of Reading, ESSC)<\/td>\n<td>Estimation of past and future polar low frequency over the North Atlantic<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>1 November<\/td>\n<td><b>Ann Shelly\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(UK Met Office)<\/td>\n<td>Overview of recent model development in medium range models at the Met Office<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>8 November<\/td>\n<td><b>Phil Anderson\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(British Antarctic Survey)<\/td>\n<td>Probing the Stable Boundary Layer: Challenges and emerging solutions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>15 November<\/td>\n<td><b>Adrian Lock\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(UK Met Office)<\/td>\n<td>Boundary layer cloud modelling at the Met Office<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>22 November<\/td>\n<td><b>Richard Greatbatch\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel University, Germany)<\/td>\n<td>Two major modes of variability of the East Asian Summer Monsoon and their possible origins<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>29 November<\/td>\n<td><b>Harry Hendon\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research)<\/td>\n<td>Role of air-sea interaction for seasonal prediction of the Australian Summer Monsoon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>6 December<\/td>\n<td><b>Suzanne Bevan\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Swansea University)<\/td>\n<td>A GLIMPSE of the Greenland Ice Sheet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>13 December<\/td>\n<td><b>Jacques Vanneste\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of Edinburgh)<\/td>\n<td>Dispersion: the large-deviation regime<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Summer 2010<\/h3>\n<table cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Title<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>19 April<\/td>\n<td><b>Colm Caulfield\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of Cambridge)<\/td>\n<td>Too much of a good thing? Bounds on stratified mixing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>26 April<\/td>\n<td><b>Barbara Maher\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Lancaster University)<\/td>\n<td>Magnetic trees: a quantitative surrogate for particulate pollution<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>4 May<\/td>\n<td><b>Roel Neggers\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI))<\/td>\n<td>Overlap statistics of boundary layer cumuliform cloud fields in large-eddy simulations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>10 May<\/td>\n<td><b>Elizabeth Kendon\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(UK Met Office)<\/td>\n<td>Understanding extreme rainfall processes and the reliability of future projections<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>17 May<\/td>\n<td><b>Michael Rogerson\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of Hull)<\/td>\n<td>Timing and origin of humid events in Libya during the last glacial cycle: perspectives from radioisotopes and stalagmites<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>24 May<\/td>\n<td><b>David Vaughan\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(British Antarctic Survey)<\/td>\n<td>Ice climate and sea level rise: Science and myth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>1 June<\/td>\n<td><b>Ruediger Gerdes\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany)<\/td>\n<td>Recent and future changes in Arctic sea ice &#8211; Impacts on atmospheric and oceanic circulations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>7 June<\/td>\n<td><b>Ben Johnson\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(UK Met Office)<\/td>\n<td>Measurement and modelling of dust aerosol<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>14 June<\/td>\n<td><b>David Stevens\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of East Anglia)<\/td>\n<td>High-resolution seasonal to decadal climate prediction<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>21 June<\/td>\n<td><b>James Tate\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of Leeds)<\/td>\n<td>Trends in UK passenger car emissions: The impact of conflicting particulate matter, nitrogen oxides and carbon dioxide priorities<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Spring 2010<\/h3>\n<table cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Title<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>11 January<\/td>\n<td><b>Kerry Emanuel\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)<\/td>\n<td>Hurricanes and Climate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>18 January<\/td>\n<td><b>Ian Mills\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of Reading, Chemistry)<\/td>\n<td>Possible improvements for the International System of Units<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>25 January<\/td>\n<td><b>Jon Blower and Alastair Gemmel\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of Reading, ESSC)<\/td>\n<td>Interactive visualization and intercomparison of data on the web<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>1 February<\/td>\n<td><b>Ole Peters\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Grantham Institute, Imperial College)<\/td>\n<td>The transition to convection<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>8 February<\/td>\n<td><b>Chris Hughes\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory)<\/td>\n<td>Jets, eddies, waves and meanders from sea level measurements<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>15 February<\/td>\n<td><b>Chris Davis\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)<\/td>\n<td>Lightning, meteors and the global electric circuit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>22 February<\/td>\n<td><b>Erland Kallen\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts)<\/td>\n<td>Arctic warming &#8211; Coupling to atmospheric circulation changes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>1 March<\/td>\n<td><b>Alfonso Castrejon-Pita\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Oxford University)<\/td>\n<td>Synchronization in geophysical experiments, numerical models, and climate dynamics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>8 March<\/td>\n<td><b>Sandrine Bony\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique, Paris)<\/td>\n<td>Towards the assessment of cloud and moist processes in climate models: Progress and prospects<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>15 March<\/td>\n<td><b>Noora Eresmaa\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Finnish Meteorological Institute)<\/td>\n<td>Idealized 3-step method for mixing height estimation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Autumn 2009<\/h3>\n<table cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Title<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>28 September<\/td>\n<td><b>Ming Cai\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Florida State University)<\/td>\n<td>Dynamical polar warming amplification and a new climate feedback analysis framework<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>05 October<\/td>\n<td><b>Helen Fairweather\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Queensland Climate Change Centre of Excellence)<\/td>\n<td>Responding to Climate Change in Queensland<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>12 October<\/td>\n<td><b>Gavin Pretor-Pinney\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Cloud Appreciation Society)<\/td>\n<td>Collecting Clouds: Gavin Pretor-Pinney on the pleasures and importance of cloudspotting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>19 October<\/td>\n<td><b>Gareth Jones\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Met Office Hadley Centre)<\/td>\n<td>Influences on climate since the 1850s: the changing human and natural contributions to climate change<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>26 October<\/td>\n<td><b>Thomas Kleinen\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology)<\/td>\n<td>Testing hypotheses on Little Ice Age climate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>02 November<\/td>\n<td><b>Paul Connolly\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of Manchester)<\/td>\n<td>Investigations into the formation of snowflakes in the Manchester Ice Cloud Chamber<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>09 November<\/td>\n<td><b>Sarah Hallerberg\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of Chemnitz, Germany)<\/td>\n<td>Extreme Events: The larger the better predictable?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>16 November<\/td>\n<td><b>Marc Bocquet\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(CEREA, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech)<\/td>\n<td>Choosing the geometry of control space for an optimal assimilation of observations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>23 November<\/td>\n<td><b>Dargan Frierson\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of Washington)<\/td>\n<td>Studies of the general circulation of the atmosphere with a simplified moist GCM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>30 November<\/td>\n<td><b>Klaus Fraedrich\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology)<\/td>\n<td>Long term memory and 1\/f-scaling in climate observations and models<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>07 December<\/td>\n<td><b>Mark Ringer\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Met Office Hadley Centre)<\/td>\n<td>The use of GPS radio occultation for climate studies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Summer 2009<\/h3>\n<table cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Title<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>20 April<\/td>\n<td><b>Dave Frame\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of Oxford)<\/td>\n<td>Science, decisions and climate mitigation policy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>27 April<\/td>\n<td><b>Brian Hoskins\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Imperial College and University of Reading)<\/td>\n<td>The UK Climate Change Committee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>5 May Tuesday<\/td>\n<td><b>Zhaomin Wang\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(British Antartic Survey)<\/td>\n<td>Spin-up of Southern Hemisphere Subpolar Gyres in a Warming Climate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>11 May<\/td>\n<td><b>Holger Meinke\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Wageningen University, Netherlands)<\/td>\n<td>From climate data to &#8216;practical wisdom&#8217; &#8211; the role of adaptation science for agricultural risk management<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>18 May<\/td>\n<td><b>Geert van den Oldenburgh\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(KNMI, Netherlands)<\/td>\n<td>Western Europe is warming much faster than expected<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>26 May Tuesday<\/td>\n<td><b>Graeme Stephens\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Colorado State University, USA)<\/td>\n<td>The water cycle and energy balance of the Earth &#8211; what&#8217;s new?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>1 June<\/td>\n<td><b>Alfonso Castrej\u00f3n-Pita\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(AOPP, University of Oxford)<\/td>\n<td>Synchronization in geophysical experiments, numerical models, and climate dynamics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>8 June<\/td>\n<td><b>Sonia Garcia\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of Limerick, Ireland)<\/td>\n<td>A different type of HARLIE machine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>15 June<\/td>\n<td><b>John Harries\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Imperial College)<\/td>\n<td>The Far Infrared Earth: water vapour feedback and planetary energy balance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>22 June<\/td>\n<td><b>Aiguo Dai\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(NCAR, USA)<\/td>\n<td>Is the Water Vapor Feedback the Same in Nature and Models?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Spring 2009<\/h3>\n<table cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Title<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>6 Jan TUES<\/td>\n<td><b>John Marshall\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(MIT)<\/td>\n<td>Thought experiments in climate and paleoclimate: speculations on the climate of an aquaplanet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>8 Jan THUR<\/td>\n<td><b>Geoff Vallis\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(GFDL, Princeton University)<\/td>\n<td>Science in the Age of Models: Is Theory still Relevant in Climate Research?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>12 Jan<\/td>\n<td><b><\/b><br \/>\n()<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>19 Jan<\/td>\n<td><b>Ken Carslaw\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of Leeds)<\/td>\n<td>The global aerosol system: what can we learn from a new generation of global microphysics models?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>26 Jan<\/td>\n<td><b>Adam Scaife\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Met Office)<\/td>\n<td>A dynamical mechanism for European winter climate change<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>2 Feb<\/td>\n<td><b>Zhaomin Wang\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(British Antarctic Survey)<\/td>\n<td>Spin-up of Southern Hemisphere Subpolar Gyres in a Warming Climate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>10 Feb TUES<\/td>\n<td><b>Bert Holtslag\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Wageningen University)<\/td>\n<td>Achievements and ongoing work in the GEWEX Atmospheric Boundary Layer Study<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>16 Feb<\/td>\n<td><b>Harm Jonker\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Delft University of Technology)<\/td>\n<td>Conditional instability of mesoscale structures in convective boundary layers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>23 Feb<\/td>\n<td><b>Heini Wernli\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Universitat Mainz)<\/td>\n<td>Mid-latitude dynamics, diabatic processes and the atmospheric water cycle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>2 Mar<\/td>\n<td><b>Philip Stier\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(AOPP, University of Oxford)<\/td>\n<td>Assessment of the indirect aerosol effects in the latest generation global aerosol models<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>9 Mar<\/td>\n<td><b>Jeff Knight\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Met. Office)<\/td>\n<td>The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation: GCM simulations, impacts and decadal predictions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>16 Mar<\/td>\n<td><b>Avi Lacser\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Israel Institute for Biological Reasearch)<\/td>\n<td>Urban Dispersion Modeling<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Autumn 2008<\/h3>\n<table cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Title<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>6 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>David McGloin\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of Dundee)<\/td>\n<td>Plucked from thin air: Studying airborne particles using optical tweezers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>13 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>Willem Sijp\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of New South Wales, Sydney)<\/td>\n<td>The effect of along-isopycnal diffusion and diapycnal diffusion on North Atlantic Deep Water stability<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>20 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>Kai Christensen\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of Oslo)<\/td>\n<td>Wave-induced drift and deformation of oil spills and natural sea slicks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>27 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>Peter Liss\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of East Anglia)<\/td>\n<td>Air-Sea Exchange of Trace Gases<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>3 Nov<\/td>\n<td><b>Mike Lockwood\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)<\/td>\n<td>TBC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>10 Nov<\/td>\n<td><b>Christine Johnson\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Met Office)<\/td>\n<td>Medium-range multi-model ensemble combination and calibration<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>17 Nov<\/td>\n<td><b>Mark Webb\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Met Office Hadley Centre)<\/td>\n<td>Towards understanding the differing cloud radiative response mechanisms in GCMs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>24 Nov<\/td>\n<td><b>Stan Yip\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of Exeter)<\/td>\n<td>A Fast Bayesian method for updating hourly maps of ozone concentration levels by combining computer model output and observed station data<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>1 Dec<\/td>\n<td><b>Angela Maharaj\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Macquarie University, Sydney)<\/td>\n<td>An assessment of multiple westward propagating signals in south Pacific sea level anomalies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>8 Dec<\/td>\n<td><b><\/b><br \/>\n()<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Summer 2008<\/h3>\n<table cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Title<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>14 April<\/td>\n<td><b>Christian Franzke<\/b><br \/>\n(British Antartic Survey)<\/td>\n<td>Systematic Identification of Metastable Atmospheric Flow Regimes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>21 April<\/td>\n<td><b>David Thompson\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Colorado State University)<\/td>\n<td>Rethinking 20th century surface temperature variability<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>28 April<\/td>\n<td><b>David Lawrence\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(NCAR)<\/td>\n<td>Abrupt sea ice loss, accelerated Arctic land warming, and rapid permafrost degradation: Investigations into the coupled nature of Arctic climate change<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>6 May<\/td>\n<td><b>Olivia Martius\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(ETH Zurich)<\/td>\n<td>Breaking synoptic-scale Rossby waves in the tropopause region<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>12 May<\/td>\n<td><b>Richard Neale\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(NCAR)<\/td>\n<td>The Impact of Convection on El Nino: From a Delayed Oscillator to a Series of Events<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>19 May<\/td>\n<td><b>Philippe Calliol\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of Sheffield)<\/td>\n<td>Rossby wave nonlinear critical layers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>27 May<\/td>\n<td><b>Alberto Arribas\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Hadley Centre, Met Office)<\/td>\n<td>The new Met Office seasonal forecasting system: scientific challenges<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>2 June<\/td>\n<td><b>Hugo Lambert\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Hadley Centre, Met Office)<\/td>\n<td>How much will precipitation increase with global warming?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>9 June<\/td>\n<td><b>Chris Taylor\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(CEH Wallingford)<\/td>\n<td>Land-atmosphere interactions: new perspectives from the African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>16 June<\/td>\n<td><b>David Thomson\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Met Office)<\/td>\n<td>The Met Office Atmospheric Dispersion Model &#8220;NAME&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Spring 2008<\/h3>\n<table cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Title<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>7 Jan<\/td>\n<td><b>Mat Collins\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Hadley Centre, Met Office)<\/td>\n<td>Probabilistic Predictions of Climate Change<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>14 Jan<\/td>\n<td><b>Gabi Hegerl\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of Edinburgh)<\/td>\n<td>Towards Detecting and Attributing Impact Relevant Climate Change<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>21 Jan<\/td>\n<td><b>Richard Scott\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of St Andrews)<\/td>\n<td>Internal Variability of the Winter Stratosphere<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>28 Jan<\/td>\n<td><b>Gwendal Riv\u00e8re\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(M\u00e9t\u00e9o-France, CNRM\/GMAP\/RECYF)<\/td>\n<td>Barotropic Regeneration of Synoptic-scale Disturbances during Jet Crossing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>4 Feb<\/td>\n<td><b>Keith Browning\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Emeritus Professor, University of Reading)<\/td>\n<td>Why do thunderstorms form where they do?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>11 Feb<\/td>\n<td><b>Andrew Staniforth\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Met Office)<\/td>\n<td>Spherical coordinate systems for models of the global atmosphere<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>18 Feb<\/td>\n<td><b>William Ingram\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford)<\/td>\n<td>Making Sense of the Water Vapour Feedback on Climate Change<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>25 Feb<\/td>\n<td><b>Stephan Fueglistaler\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge)<\/td>\n<td>Stratospheric Water Vapour and Climate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>03 March<\/td>\n<td><b>Chris Hilson\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(School of Law, University of Reading)<\/td>\n<td>Climate Change &#8211; A Legal Perspective<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>10 March<\/td>\n<td><b>Scott Osprey\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford)<\/td>\n<td>A New Light on Stratospheric Variability<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Autumn 2007<\/h3>\n<table cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Title<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>TUE 25 Sept<\/td>\n<td><b>John Latham\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of Manchester &amp; NCAR)<\/td>\n<td>A scheme for controlled global cooling via the albedo-enhancement of marine stratiform clouds<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>1 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>Peter May\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Bureau of Meteorology, Australia)<\/td>\n<td>The Tropical Warm Pool International Cloud Experiment in Darwin &#8211; An overview and some early science results<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>8 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>Helen Brindley\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Imperial College)<\/td>\n<td>Estimating the direct radiative effect of Saharan dust using GERB and SEVIRI<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>15 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>Tim Lenton\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of East Anglia)<\/td>\n<td>Tipping Points in the Earth System<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>22 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>Dudley Chelton\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Oregon State University, US)<\/td>\n<td>Global observations of oceanic eddies by satellite altimetry<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>29 Oct<\/td>\n<td><b>Eric Deeleersnijder\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)<\/td>\n<td>New developments and results of the Constituent-oriented Age and Residence time Theory (CART)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>5 Nov<\/td>\n<td><b>Ray Bates\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University College, Dublin)<\/td>\n<td>Some considerations of the concept of climate feedback<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>12 Nov<\/td>\n<td><b>Peter Lynch\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University College, Dublin)<\/td>\n<td>The ENIAC forecasts: a re-creation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>19 Nov<\/td>\n<td><b>Manoj Joshi\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of Reading)<\/td>\n<td>The mechanisms behind the land\/sea warming contrast in climate change<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>26 Nov<\/td>\n<td><b>Nina Petersen\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University of East Anglia)<\/td>\n<td>The Greenland Flow Distortion Experiment<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>3 Dec<\/td>\n<td><b>Andrew Lorenc\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Met Office)<\/td>\n<td>4D-Var and the Butterfly Effect<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>10 Dec<\/td>\n<td><b>Dave Thomson\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(Met Office)<\/td>\n<td>The Met Office Atmospheric Dispersion Model &#8220;NAME&#8221; &#8211; CANCELLED<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Summer 2007<\/h3>\n<table cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Title<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>23 Apr<\/td>\n<td><b>Claude Frankignoul\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(UPMC, France)<\/td>\n<td>Simulated variability of the North Atlantic circulation from 1953 to 2003<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td>30 Apr<\/td>\n<td><b>Gavin Esler\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n(University College, London)<\/td>\n<td>The 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