cc: c.goodess@uea.ac.uk,t.osborn@uea.ac.uk date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:05:22 +0100 from: Phil Jones subject: Re: Met Office Seminars to: "Willett, Kate" ,, , Kate. Thanks. I've let a few more know here. I think this will likely work through the Audio Visual Centre here. We've had at least one project meeting this way. Good luck with the heffalumps! Cheers Phil At 10:25 10/09/2009, Willett, Kate wrote: >Hello, hope all is well in the world of CRU. I've now moved up in the >world to the exciting role of CR Seminar Co-ordinator - well I think I >was the only one who could be bothered to take it on or something like >that. Anyway, we do occasionally do a video link up to Wallingford but I >don't really see why we couldn't do video link-ups to CRU/Tyndall/ENV if >it was ever desired and assuming you have the right facilities at your >end. Could it even be something useful for the MSc course? > >So, I've put a list of all the seminars this Autumn in this email. If >you could pass this on to anyone who you think might be interested that >would be great and let me know if there are any seminars you would be >interested in seeing and I'll try and organise a link up. I haven't >discovered whether we can simultaneously link up to more than one >location at a time yet but Wallingford rarely request a link up anyway. > >On another note, I'm sending our summer student Richard Pope back with a >large amount of past significant weather data and a keen interest in >climate research if I haven't completely destroyed his brain with >squiggly timeseries and long IDL code. Might be worth looking out for as >a future PhD candidate/ interesting final year project. > >Enjoy the rest of the summer! > >Kate > >Tue, 15th Sep 2009, 11:00 Green Island 1: >Anders Persson (11:00-11:30): What is a "Rossby Wave"? > >Fri, 18th Sep 2009 11:00 Green Island 2: EXTERNAL >Gil Compo (CIRES Climate Diagnotic Center and NOAA Physical Sciences >Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, USA): >Developing the surface input reanalysis for climate applications (SIRCA) >1850-2011 > >Tue, 22nd Sep 2009, 11:00 Green Island 1: >Cyril Morcrette (11:00-11:30): Analysis of cloud increment diagnostics: >the inner workings of PC2 > >Tue, 29th Sep 2009 11:00 Green Island 1: EXTERNAL >TBC: TBC > >Tue, 6th Oct 2009 11:00 Green Island 3+4): >Chun Kit Ho (11:00-11:30): TBC >Kate Willett (11:30-12:00): Honey, hotpants and heffalumps: deciphering >the good, the dodgy and bizarre observational data > >Tue,13th Oct 2009, 11:00 Green Island 1: EXTERNAL >Bethan Harris (Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, >Reading, UK): >Super-volcanoes > >***START OF HIGH LATITUDES THEME*** > >Mon, 19th Oct 2009, 11:00 Green Island 1: >Jeff Ridley (11:00-12:00): One step beyond the pole: a review of >advances in Polar science > >Tue, 27th Oct 2009, 11:00 Green Island 1: >Jamie Rae (11:00-11:20): The ice2sea project >Rutger Dankers (11:20-11:40): TBC >Bruce Ingleby (11:40-12:00): A quick look at Arctic buoys in NWP > >Tue, 3rd Nov 2009, 11:00 Green Island 1: >Peter Thorne (11:00-11:20): Nature and Science: New York Times or New >York Post? >Ann Keen (11:20-11:40): Why has the Arctic sea ice extent reduced so >much in recent summers? >Helene Hewitt (11:40-12:00): A quick overview of sea ice modelling and >future challenges > >Wed, 4th Nov 2009 14:00 Green Island 2: EXTERNAL >Olaf Morgenstern (NIWA, New Zealand): >The Northern Annular Mode in the CCMVal-2 simulations: Anthropogenic >forcing? > >Tue, 10th Nov 2009, 14:00 Green Island 1: >Holly Titchner (11:00-11:30): Development of a global sea ice dataset >Matt Palmer (11:30-12:00): High latitude ocean convection: a conduit for >warming the deep ocean? > >***END OF HIGH LATITUDES THEME*** > > >Thur, 26th Nov 2009, 11:00 Green Island 1: EXTERNAL >Dargan M. W. Frierson (Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of >Washington, Seattle, WA, USA): >Simple Models of the Effect of Moisture on the Global Circulation of the >Atmosphere > >Wed, 2nd Dec 2009, 11:00 Green Island 1: >Alejandro Bodas (11:00-11:30): COSP: a satellite simulation software >Johnny Williams (11:30-11:50): Dynamical regimes in the atmosphere > >Dr Kate Willett Climate Research Scientist >Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, UK >Tel: +44(0)139288(4288) Fax: +44(0)1392885681 >http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climatechange > Prof. Phil Jones Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0) 1603 592090 School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0) 1603 507784 University of East Anglia Norwich Email p.jones@uea.ac.uk NR4 7TJ UK ----------------------------------------------------------------------------