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Past Terms' Meetings
Spring 2018
Week | Date | Speakers |
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1 | 9 Jan 2018 |
No talk
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2 | 16 Jan 2018 |
Dan Shipley
Mathematical techniques for atmospheric convection to improve severe weather prediction |
3 | 23 Jan 2018 |
Michael Johnston
Parallels between lake effect snow and island convection |
4 | 30 Jan 2018 |
David Flack
The influence of stochastic boundary layer perturbations on the forecast for Coverack |
5 | 6 Feb 2018 |
Manos Flaounas (Visiting Scientist)
Medicanes as subtropical cyclones: the December 2005 case from the perspective of surface pressure tendency diagnostics and atmospheric water budget. |
6 | 13 Feb 2018 |
Enhancement week
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7 | 20 Feb 2018 |
No Talk
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8 | 27 Feb 2018 |
Arathy Menon
2016 Indian Monsoon onset and progression in field campaign observations and a 4km model. |
9 | 6 Mar 2018 |
Will McIntyre
On the path to modelling convection with conditional averaging |
**NOTE** | The above meeting will take place in Meteorology Building, Room 1L43 | |
10 | 13 Mar 2018 |
Ryan Williams
Tropospheric Ozone (O3): Seasonal and Geographical Variability, Stratospheric Influence and Recent Trends |
**NOTE** | The above meeting will take place in Meteorology Building, Room 1L61 | |
11 | 20 Mar 2018 |
Mark Muetzelfeldt
Clustering wind profiles to identify shear conditions in climate models |
Autumn 2017
Week | Date | Speakers |
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1 | 26 Sep 2017 |
Luc Gerard (Visiting from Belgium Met Service)
Modelling deep convection in kilometre-scale grid meshes |
2 | 3 Oct 2017 |
Michael Johnston
Environments that support cloud trails at Bermuda |
3 | 10 Oct 2017 |
Will McIntyre
The numerical difficulties of advecting moisture for cloud modelling |
4 | 17 Oct 2017 |
James Shaw
Numerical advection of chemical species |
5 | 24 Oct 2017 |
Humphrey Lean
Representation of the convective boundary layer over London with O(100m) versions of the Unified Model |
6 | 31 Oct 2017 |
Enhancement Week
No Meeting Planned |
7 | 7 Nov 2017 |
David Flack
Convective-scale perturbation growth from a stochastic boundary layer parametrization |
8 | 14 Nov 2017 |
Kaja Milczewska
Improving the accuracy of air quality forecasts |
9 | 21 Nov 2017 |
Helene Bresson
Polar lows and the North Atlantic climate system James Gilmore Electric field measurements during convective clouds at Chilbolton |
10 | 28 Nov 2017 |
Ambrogio Volonte
Idealised simulations of sting jets in extratropical cyclones |
**NOTE** | The above meeting will take place in Meteorology Building, Room 1L61 | |
11 | 5 Dec 2017 |
Matt Priestley
How important is clustering in 1000 year windstorm events? |
12 | 12 Dec 2017 |
First-year PhD Students
Introduction to 1st Year Projects |
Summer 2017
Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
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1 | 25-April-2017 | Ben Harvey | 'How is negative PV created in warm conveyor belts?' |
2 | 2-May-2017 | Thorwald Stein | 'Further tales of DYMECS' |
3 | 9-May-2017 | Session with PhD visiting scientist Tapio Schneider (CalTech) | Ben Courtier :"Cloud Electrification in Convective Storms" Holly Turner: "Assessing the impacts of vertical wind shear on gravity wave drag" Ambrogio Volonté: "Dynamics of Sting Jets: key challenges and contributions from the 'Reading group'". |
4 | 16-May-2017 | Julia Curio | 'Climatology of Tibetan Plateau vortices in reanalysis data and a high resolution model simulation' |
5 | 23-May-2017 | Manos Flaounas (National Observatory of Athens) | 'Mediterranean cyclones: climatological aspects and dynamics' |
6 | 30-May-2017 | Bring-a-plot/discussion session | / |
7 | 6-June-2017 | Alex Baker | 'Resolution sensitivity of the Mediterranean winter precipitation response to RCP8.5 in HadGEM3' |
8 | 13-June-2017 | Michael Johnston & Bethan Harris | / |
Spring 2017
Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
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1 | 10-January-2017 | No session | / |
2 | 17-January-2017 | Leo Saffin | 'Maintaining tropopause sharpness in NWP models' |
3 | 24-January-2017 | Nigel Roberts | 'Developments with the Fractions Skill Score' |
4 | 31-January-2017 | Bring-a-plot/discussion session | / |
5 | 7-February-2017 (1L43) | Miguel Teixeira | 'Theory and experiments of 3D trapped lee waves' |
6 | 14-February-2017 | Chris Holloway | 'Observing convective aggregation' |
7 | 21-February-2017 | Ambrogio Volonte | 'Importance of model resolution in resolving sting jets' |
8 | 28-February-2017 | Juwon Kim | 'The impact of aerosols on cloud microphysics and dynamics in deep convective clouds over the UK' |
9 | 7-March-2017 | Jacob Maddison & Matt Feist | 'Factors controlling forecasts of atmospheric blocking' 'Measuring convective storm turbulence with radar for model evaluation' |
10 | 14-March-2017 | Bring-a-plot/discussion session | / |
11 | 21-March-2017 | Bob Plant | / |
Autumn 2016
Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
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1 | 27-September-2016 | Introduction/discussion session | / |
2 | 4-October-2016 | Kirsty Hanley & Carol Halliwell | 'Convection in the UKV' |
3 | 11-October-2016 | James Gilmore & Holly Turner | 'The Effects of Charged Precipitation on the Local Electric Circuit' 'Developing a Global Field of Richardson Number' |
4 | 18-October-2016 | Session with Veronique Ducrocq (CRNM) Talks from Humphrey Lean, Jacob Maddison & David Flack | 'Mesoscale modelling Research in the Met Office@Reading' 'Forecasting blocking in the Northern Hemisphere Winter' 'Convetive-scale perturbation growth in different convective regimes' |
5 | 25-October-2016 | Sue Gray | 'North Atlantic storm driving of extreme wave heights' |
6 | 1-November-2016 | Peter Clark | 'Stochastic Convective boundary-layer parametrizations in the MetUM' |
7 | 8-November-2016 | Oscar Martinez-Alvarado | '(Partial) Review of diabatic processes and Rossby waves' |
8 | 15-November-2016 | Mark Muetzelfeldt | 'Heat and Moisture Budgets in Radiative-Convective Equilibrium Experiments' |
9 | 22-November-2016 | Helen Dacre | 'Using trajectories to determine predictability limits' |
10 | 29-November-2016 | Helene Bresson & Matthew Priestley | 'Applying an objective Polar low identification scheme to two high-resolution reanalyses' 'Cyclone clustering in ERA-Interim' |
11 | 6-December-2016 | Discussion/Bring-a-plot session | / |
12 | 13-December-2016 | First year PhD students: Kaja Milczewska, Bethan Harris, Ryan Williams, Ben Courtier, William Mcintyre & Michael Johnston | / |
Summer 2016
Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
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1 | 19-April-2016 (2pm - GU10) | / | / |
2 | 26-April-2016 (2pm - GU10) | Jonathan Chuen Chung Chui | Convective parameterization in the grey zone |
3 | 3-May-2016 (2pm - GU01) | Oscar Martinez-Alvarado | How well are probability distribution functions predicted by ensemble prediction systems? |
4 | 10-May-2016 (2pm - GU01) | Ambrogio Volonte | Mechanisms generating mesoscale instability along a Sting Jet (Windstorm Tini) |
5 | 17-May-2016 | Chris Webber | 'Climate impacts on hazardous UK PM10 exposure' |
6 | 24-May-2016 | Juwon Kim | 'The role of turbulent mixing on clouds' |
7 | 31-May-2016 | Carly Wright | 'The generation of rainbands downwind of mountains' |
8 | 7-June-2016 (3pm - 1L61) | PhD visiting scientist (Richard Rotunno): Carly Wright, Ambrogio Volonte & Leo Saffin | 'Generation of downwind rainbands' 'Sting jets in extra-tropcila cyclones: generated by mesoscale instabilities?' 'Systematic effects in NWP' |
Spring 2016
Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
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1 | 12-Jan-2016 | / | / |
2 | 19-Jan-2016 | Seonaid Dey | Characterising spatial precipitation characteristics for Summer 2013 |
3 | 26-Jan-2016 | Reinhard Schiemann | The resolution sensitivity of northern hemisphere blocking in four 25-km atmospheric global circulation models |
4 | 2-Feb-2016 | / | / |
5 | 9-Feb-2016 | James Shaw | Curl-free pressure gradients for accurate modelling of cold air pools |
6 | 16-Feb-2016 (2pm - 1L43) | Juwon Kim | / |
7 | 23-Feb-2016 | Fadzil Mohd Nor | / |
8 | 1-Mar-2016 | Shun-ichi Watanabe (University of Tokio) | A comprehensive study on the characteristics of the polar mesocyclone over the Sea of Japan |
9 | 8-Mar-2016 | Miguel Teixeira | / |
10 | 15-Mar-2016 | Carly Wright | / |
Autumn 2015
Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
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1 | 29-Sep-2015 (3pm - 1L61) | Neil Hart | Estimating the climatological risk of sting-jet windstorms |
2 | 06-Oct-2015 | / | / |
3 | 13-Oct-2015 (3pm - 1L61) | Chris Holloway | Convective aggregation processes |
4 | 20-Oct-2015 (2pm - 1L43) | David Flack | Model Physics Perturbation Growth in Different Regimes |
5 | 27-Oct-2015 (3pm - 1L43) | Bring-a-plot session | / |
6 | 03-Nov-2015 (2pm - 1L43) | Sue Gray and Peter Clark | Observation and modeling of weather-related effects induced by March 2015 eclipse |
7 | 10-Nov-2015 | Open Discussion | |
8 | 17-Nov-2015 | Mini-conference with Beth Ebert: short presentation by group members and final discussion | Helen Dacre: Assessing the accuracy of volcanic ash simulations? Kirsty Hanley: Representation of convection in high resolution versions of the UM Oscar Martinez-Alvarado: Large-scale forecast errors: can we learn anything from them? |
9 | 24-Nov-2015 | Leo Saffin | PV Tracers |
10 | 01-Dec-2015 | Benoit Vanniere (Imperial College, London) | The role of the cold sector of extratropical cyclones in setting atmospheric mean state features of the Gulf Stream basin |
11 | 08-Dec-2015 | Presentations from new PhD students |
Summer 2015
Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
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1 | 21-April-2015 | Bring-a-plot session | \ |
2 | 28-April-2015 (GU10) | Carol Halliwell & Kirsty Hanley | Representing convection in high resolution versions of the UM |
3 | 05-May-2015 (GU10) | Nigel Roberts | Diagnosing the pressure pattern |
4 | 12-May-2015 | Tim Hewson (ECMWF) | Windstorms, Freezing Rain, and Sub-grid Rainstorms - an overview of some recent work at ECMWF related to Severe Weather |
5 | 19-May-2015 (GU10) | Bob Plant | An alternative perspective on some Cascade data |
6 | 26-May-2015 | Ben Harvey | Using observations and theory to evaluate model convergence at fronts |
7 | 02-Jun-2015 | Oscar Martinez-Alvarado | Contrasting PV features in two summer extratropical cyclones |
8 | 09-Jun-2015 | Neil Hart | Instabilities associated with sting jet descents in three explosively-developing windstorms |
Autumn 2014
Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
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1 | 28-September | ||
2 | 07-October (Gu10) | David Hooper | Mesoscale measurements of wind and atmospheric structure using the NERC MST Radar |
3 | 14-October | Oscar Martinez-Alvarado | |
4 | 21-October (Gu10) | Leo Saffin | |
5 | 28-October (Gu10) | Peter Clark and Neil Hart | Python |
6 | 04-November | ||
7 | 11-November | ||
8 | 18-November | Ambrogio Volonte | Investigation of Sting Jet presence in storm Tini |
9 | 25-November | David Flack | Characterising the Convective Adjustment Timescale over the UK |
10 | 02-December | Carly Wright | The Generation of Downwind Rainbands by Mountains |
11 | 09-December | 1st Year PhD Students | Introduction |
Summer 2014
Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
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1 | 29-April-2014 | ||
2 | 06-May-2014 (1L43) | ||
3 | 13-May-2013 (1L43) | ||
4 | 20-May-2014 (Gu01) | Victoria Sinclair | A winter-time climatology of low-level jets in the northern polar regions |
5 | 27-May-2014 | Kirsty Hanley | UM simulations of the Moore tornado |
6 | 03-Jun-2014 | Seonaid Dey | Spatial ensemble characterisation for summer convective cases |
7 | 10-Jun-2014 | Matt Hawcroft | Latent heating in extratropical cyclones in HiGEM, ERA-Interim and remote sensing data |
8 | 17-Jun-2014 (1L43) | Sam Clark | Multi-scale MetUM simulations of a mesoscale convective system: A case study |
9 | 24-Jun-2014 | David Flack | The Appropriate Use of a Convective Adjustment Timescale to Distinguish Between Regimes of Predictability |
10 | 1-Jul-2014 (Gu10) | Neil Hart | On automating Lagragian-based analysis of extratropical cyclones |
Spring 2014
Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
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1 | 14-Jan-2014 | -Rob Warren | -Idealised numerical simulations of the sea breeze system over a peninsula |
2 | 21-Jan-2014 | TBC | TBC |
3 | 28-Jan-2014 | Nigel Roberts | An assessment of spatially post-processed probability forecasts from the MOGREPS-UK ensemble and the UKV model |
4 | 04-Feb-2014 | Jill Chamberlain | High-resolution modelling of tropical cyclones |
5 | 11-Feb-2014 | TBC | TBC |
6 | 18-Feb-2014 | Neil Hart | Automating air stream identification in extratropical cyclones |
7 | 25-Feb-2014 | Bob Plant | Simple models for prognostic convection |
8 | 04-Mar-2014 | Ruari Rhodes | Can reanalysis represent extreme precipitation over England and Wales |
9 | 11-Mar-2014 | Chris Hollaway | Convective aggregation in observations and models |
10 | 18-Mar-2014 |
Autumn 2013
Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
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1 | 8-Oct-2013 | Chris Weijenborg | Organisation of Potential Vorticity during severe convection |
2 | 15-Oct-2013 | Oscar Martinez-Alvarado | Implications of model error for numerical weather and climate prediction |
3 | 22-Oct-2013 | Neil Hart | TBC |
4 | 29-Oct-2013 | Seonaid Dey | TBC |
5 | 5-Nov-2013 | Kirsty Hanley | High resolution COPE simulations |
6 | 12-Nov-2013 | Helen Dacre | TBC |
7 | 19-Nov-2013 | All | Bring a plot |
8 | 26-Nov-2013 | Miguel Teixeira | Theory and lab measurements of gravity wave drag caused by an inversion |
9 | 3-Dec-2013 | Peter Clark | Some toy problems for stochastic parametrisation |
10 | 10-Dec-2013 | First year PhD students | Introductions |
Summer 2013
Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
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1 | 23-Apr-2013 | - | - |
2 | 30-Apr-2013 | Sue Gray | Model forecast error in upper-level ridge structure |
3 | 7-May-2013 | Robert Warren | A numerical investigation of the effects of dry air aloft on deep convection (2010) by Richard P. James and Paul M. Markowski |
4 | 14-May-2013 | Jeff Chagnon | TBC |
5 | 21-May-2013 | Nigel Roberts | TBC |
6 | 28-May-2013 | Ross Bannister | TBC |
7 | 4-Jun-2013 | Kirsty McBeath (Met Office) | TBC |
8 | 11-Jun-2013 | Bob Plant | TBC |
9 | 18-Jun-2013 | Oscar Martinez-Alvarado | Contrasting the concepts 'atmospheric river' and 'warm conveyor belt': Are they synonyms? |
10 | 25-Jun-2013 | Sam Clarke | TBC |
Spring 2013
Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
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1 | 15-Jan-2013 | All | Bring a plot session |
2 | 22-Jan-2013 | Andrew Barrett | Synoptic versus orographic control on stationary convective banding. |
3 | 29-Jan-2013 | - | - |
4 | 05-Feb-2013 | Robert Warren | Hazardous Weather lecture practise: Supercells and tornadoes |
5 | 12-Feb-2013 | Kirsty Hanley | High resolution simulations of convective storms |
6 | 19-Feb-2013 | Neil Hart | 4-D visualisation made easy with IDV: Virtual flight through a sting jet |
7 | 26-Feb-2013 | Pete Clark | Turbulence parametrization in convective clouds: what is the resolution of a model? |
8 | 05-Mar-2013 | Gabriele Messori (Imperial College) | The sporadic nature of atmospheric heat transport |
9 | 12-Mar-2013 | Helen Dacre | What happens when cyclones cross the jet stream? |
10 | 19-Mar-2013 | Neil Hart & Mike Wong | TBC |
Autumn 2012
Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
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1 | 09-Oct-2012 | Miguel Teixeira | Mountain waves, Oceanic Turbulence 1L61 |
2 | 16-Oct-2012 | Matt Hawcroft | Precipitation in the ECMWF dataset and teaching in Afghanistan 1L61 |
3 | 23-Oct-2012 | All | Introductions GU10 |
4 | 30-Oct-2012 | Jeff Chagnon | Diabatic potential vorticity in extratropical cyclones 1L61 |
5 | 08-Nov-2012 (Thursday 11am) | Oscar Martínez-Alvarado | Diabatic Processes and Extratropical Cyclones GU10 |
6 | 13-Nov-2012 | Mike Glinton | Conditional Symmetric Instability: Are global scale models missing something ? 1L61 |
7 | 20-Nov-2012 | Michael Reeder (Monash University, Australia) | The Meteorology of Catastrophic Wildfires over Southeastern Australia. 1L61 |
8 | 27-Nov-2012 | Agnieszka Mega and Ruari Rhodes | Environmental precursors of sting jet storms and Changes in long term variability in the rains of Sudan 1L61 |
9 | 04-Dec-2012 | 1L61 | |
10 | 11-Dec-2012 | 1L61 |
Summer 2012
Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
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1 | 24-Apr-2012 3 pm | Emilie Carter | Progress on representing convection at various high horizontal resolutions in the U |
2 | 01-May-2012 | ||
3 | 08-May-2012 | David McNamara | Boundary Layer Ventilation of Mid Latitude Cyclones |
4 | 15-May-2012 | Mike Glinton | Conditional symmetric instability, precipitation and strong surface winds |
5 | 22-May-2012 | Masami Narita | Characteristics of different cloud microphysics schemes in the Met Office 1.5-km Unified Model for a typhoon and winter snow cases over Japan |
6 | 29-May-2012 | Matt Hawcroft | Latent heat in Extratropical Cyclones in a high resolution climate model, reanalysis and remote sensing |
7 | 05-Jun-2012 | Bank holiday | |
8 | 12-Jun-2012 | Cimene Daleu | Modelling the interactions between tropical convection and large scale dynamics |
9 | 19-Jun-2012 | Oscar Martínez-Alvarado | TBC |
10 | 26-Jun-2012 | Laura Baker | TBC |
Spring 2011
Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
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1 | 18-Jan-2011 | Bring-A-Plot session | |
2 | 25-Jan-2011 | Oscar Martínez-Alvarado | Discussion: Frequency and distribution of sting jets in intense winter North-Atlantic cyclones |
3 | 01-Feb-2011 | Sue Gray | Challenges in mesoscale meteorology |
4 | Monday 07-Feb-2011 | Michael Glinton | Discussion on Linstrom and Nordeng (1992) |
5 | 15-Feb-2011 | Chimene Daleu | Modelling the Interactions between Tropical Convection and Large-scale Dynamics |
6 | 22-Feb-2011 | Dan Kirshbaum | Further results on trade-wind convection over tropical islands |
7 | 01-Mar-2011 | Kirsty Hanley | Ensemble simulations of a squall line during COPS: verification and mechanisms |
8 | 08-Mar-2011 | Dirk Cannon | A scaling of orographic precipitation, for both stratiform and convective clouds |
9 | 15-Mar-2011 | Jeffrey Chagnon | What controls the emergence of time and space scales in fields of convection? |
10 | 22-Mar-2011 | Helen Dacre |
Autumn 2010
Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
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1 | 11-Oct-2010 | No meeting | |
2 | 18-Oct-2010 | Bring-A-Plot session | |
3 | 25-Oct-2010 | No meeting | |
4 | 01-Nov-2010 | Oscar Martínez-Alvarado | A first look into a contingency table for sting jets |
5 | 08-Nov-2010 | No meeting | |
6 | 15-Nov-2010 | Jeffrey Chagnon | A pre-frontal surge wave: Case study analysis and idealised simulation |
7 | 22-Nov-2010 | Emilie Carter | COLPEX: Cold Air Pooling Experiment. |
8 | 29-Nov-2010 | Emma Irvine | Aviation, weather and contrails |
9 | 06-Dec-2010 | Carol Halliwell | Assessing the available options for subgrid-scale mixing in the UM using the Idealised UM |
10 | 13-Dec-2010 | TBC | TBC |
Autumn 2009
Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
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1 | 05-Oct-2009 | Everybody | Bring-A-Plot session |
2 | 12-Oct-2009 | Nigel Roberts | Downscaling a 1.5km ensemble - First case study |
3 | 19-Oct-2009 | Helen Dacre | Can SAL be used to validate air quality forecasts? |
4 | 26-Oct-2009 | Giovanni Leoncini | Ensemble simulations for the Boscastle flood: perturbations, physics and convergence lines |
5 | 02-Nov-2009 | Emma Irvine | Why does targeted observing (sometimes) fail? Experiments using synthetic targeted observations containing a baroclinic structure. |
6 | 09-Nov-2009 | Kirsty Hanley | High resolution ensemble simulations of an isolated convective storm during COPS. |
7 | 16-Nov-2009 | Aymeric Spiga (Open University) | Mesoscale and microscale meteorology on Mars. |
8 | 23-Nov-2009 | Humphrey Lean & Daniel Kirshbaum | Orographic precipitation and the seeder-feeder mechanism. |
9 | 30-Nov-2009 | Jeffrey Chagnon | Thorpex - North Atlantic Waveguide and Downstream impacts Experiment (T-NAWDEx): Some preliminary ideas and a pilot study |
10 | 07-Dec-2009 | Carol Halliwell | Part I: Subgrid-scale mixing in the UM - where we are now... Part II: The Idealised UM and why you would want to use it! |
Autumn 2008
Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
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1 | 07-Oct-2008 | (bring a plot session) | TBA |
2 | 14-Oct-2008 | Sue Gray | TBA |
3 | 21-Oct-2008 | Jeffrey Chagnon | TBA |
4 | 28-Oct-2008 | Chris Holloway | TBA |
5 | 04-Nov-2008 | Victoria Sinclair | TBA |
6 | 11-Nov-2008 | Michael Ball | TBA |
7 | 18-Nov-2008 | Richard Keane | TBA |
8 | 25-Nov-2008 | Emma Irvine | TBA |
9 | 02-Dec-2008 | Laura Baker | TBA |
10 | 09-Dec-2008 | Dirk Cannon and Dan Peake | TBA |