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SPC Seminar: Patrick Jöckel (DLR) – The role of atmospheric methane lifetime for methane induced feedbacks on atmospheric chemistry and climate

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Tue 23 April 2024, 11.30–12.30 BST

SPC Seminar: Trude Storelvmo (Oslo) – The cloud phase feedback and its dependence on cloud regime and climate state

Blackett Building, South Kensington Campus

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Tue 19 March 2024, 11.30–12.30 GMT

SPC Seminar: Laura Wilcox (NCAS/Reading) – The role of anthropogenic aerosol in near-term climate change

Huxley Building, South Kensington Campus

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Tue 12 March 2024, 11.30–12.30 GMT

SPC Seminar: Angela Benedetti (ECMWF) – Aerosol impacts on forecasts at various temporal scales: the ECMWF perspective

Huxley Building, South Kensington Campus

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Tue 27 February 2024, 11.30–12.30 GMT

SPC Seminar: Matthew Patterson (Oxford) – Disentangling North Atlantic ocean-atmosphere coupling

Huxley Building, South Kensington Campus

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Tue 13 February 2024, 11.30–12.30 GMT

SPC Seminar: Mary Langsdale (King’s) – Laboratory measurements of spectral emissivity: can we trust the ‘truth’

Huxley Building, South Kensington Campus

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Thu 8 February 2024, 14.00–15.30 GMT

SPC seminar “Detection of ion-scale reconnecting current sheets using Solar Orbiter high cadence data”

Huxley Building, South Kensington Campus

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Tue 6 February 2024, 11.30–12.30 GMT

SPC Seminar – Fangxin Fang (Imperial) – Hybrid AI and physical modelling for accurate and rapid environmental prediction & management

Huxley Building, South Kensington Campus

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Tue 30 January 2024, 11.30–12.30 GMT

SPC Seminar: Emily Dowd – Observing and Modelling Methane Across Different Scales

Huxley Building, South Kensington Campus

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Tue 12 December 2023, 11.30–12.30 GMT

Atmosphere-Ocean Seminar: Tim Carlsen

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Atmosphere-Ocean Seminar: Dr Bethan Harris

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Atmosphere-Ocean Seminar: Dr William Jones

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2019-2020

Autumn Term (Oct-Dec 2019)

Date	Speaker	Institute	Title
26/09/2019 (Thursday, 10:00)	Prof Georgiy Stenchikov	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology	Effect of radiative heating on the dispersion of stratospheric volcanic plumes in a fine-resolution regional model
03/10/2019 (Thursday, 16:00, H130)	Dr Stephan Juricke	University of Oxford	Modelling ocean weather
08/10/2019	Dr Yohan Ruprich-Robert	BSC-CNS	The North Atlantic decadal variability: its climate impacts and its origins
15/10/2019	N/A	N/A	N/A
22/10/2019	Prof Ben Murray	University of Leeds	Ice nucleating aerosol particles and the cloud-phase climate feedback
29/10/2019	Prof Geoffrey Vallis	University of Exeter	A Mechanism of the Madden-Julian Oscillation and its Relation to Excitable Media
05/11/2019	Dr Andrew Gettelman	NCAR (and Oxford University)	Cloud processes at the intersection of Climate Forcing and Feedback
12/11/2019	Dr James Keeble	University of Cambridge	Modelling the Potential Impacts on Total Column Ozone Recovery of the Recent, Unexpected Increases in CFC-11 emissions
19/11/2019	Asst. Prof Ashwin Seshadri	Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences	Simple models of monsoon bifurcation and global warming
26/11/2019	Dr Daniel McCoy	University of Leeds	Observational constraints on aerosol-induced cloud brightening and liquid content changes
05/12/2019 (Thursday 15:30-17:30)	Dr Ayako Yamamoto and Prof Hisashi Nakamura	JAMSTEC (Dr. Yamamoto) and RCAST (Prof Nakamura)	Key role of western boundary currents in wintertime Euro-Atlantic blocking (Dr. Yamamoto) Processes shaping the frontal-scale time-mean surface wind convergence patterns in winter around the warm western boundary currents (Prof Nakamura)
10/12/2019	Dr Thomas Smith	LSE	Smoke and mirrors: Why are tropical biomass burning emissions important? And how do we measure them?

Spring Term (Jan-March 2020)

Date	Speaker	Institute	Title
N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
14/01/2020	Professor Piers Forster	Leeds	How should we interpret CMIP6 results?
21/01/2020	Dr Eleanor Frajka-Williams	National Oceanography Centre	Measuring the large-scale ocean circulation: Variability, connectivity and new approaches
28/01/2020	Dr Richard Staley	Cambridge	Climatic periods: A history
04/02/2020	Dr Chris Smith	Leeds	The Utility of Simple Climate Models
11/02/2020	Prof Nadine Unger	Exeter	Air pollution impacts on the carbon cycle and climate
N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
25/02/2020	Dr Vincent Hare	Cape Town	Plants, Palaeoatmospheres, and Carbon Isotopes
03/03/2020	Professor Richard Essery	N/A	N/A
10/03/2020	Dr Tim Trent	N/A	N/A
17/03/2020	Dr Anthony Baran	Reading	Towards a new generation of physically consistent ice crystal scattering models

Summer Term (May-June 2020)

Date	Speaker	Institute	Title
12/05/2020 (Tuesday, 16:00)	Dr. Mark Zelinka		Causes of Higher Climate Sensitivity in CMIP6 Models
19/05/2020 (Tuesday, 11:00)	David Schultz	University of Manchester	How to Write Titles and Abstracts
26/05/2020 (Tuesday, 16:00)	Dr Yana Bebieva	Florida State University	The regulation of sea ice thickness by double-diffusive processes in the Ross Gyre
02/06/2020 (Tuesday, 11:00)	Dr. Kasia Tokarska	ETH Zurich	Carbon budgets for the Paris Agreement: uncertainties, overshoot scenarios, and high warming models
09/06/2020 (Tuesday, 16:30)	Dr. Nick Lutsko	Scripps	Conceptual Models for Temperature and Heat Stress Extremes, and How These Change with Warming
16/06/2020 (Tuesday, 11:30)	Alistair Manning	Met Office	TBD
23/06/2020 (Tuesday, 10:00)	Dr. Jan D. Zika	University of New South Wales	TBD
30/06/2020 (Tuesday, 16:00)	Dr. Isla Simpson	NCAR	TBD
07/07/2020 (Tuesday 16:00)	Dr. Roisin Commane	Columbia	TBD

2018-2019

Date	Speaker	Institute	Title
12/09/2018	Prof Kerry Emanuel	MIT	Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change
02/10/2018	Dr Cécile Penland	NOAA/ESRL (Boulder)	On the skewed nature of Ensemble Forecasts
09/10/2018	Dr Abdul Malik	Grantham Institute	Tropical Pacific Climate Variability under Solar Geoengineering: Impacts on ENSO Extremes
16/10/2018	Dr John Mashey	-	The Machinery of Doubt - Cigarettes, Climate and Confusion
23/10/2018	-	-	-
30/10/2018	Prof Ralph Keeling	Scripps Institute of Oceanography	Quantifying ocean warming using atmospheric gases as a whole-ocean thermometer
06/11/2018	Dr Fanny Peers	University of Exeter	Satellite observation of absorbing aerosols above clouds at high temporal resolution over South East Atlantic Ocean
13/11/2018	Dr Karsten Haustein	University of Oxford	Refining the attribution question: From extreme weather to global temperatures
20/11/2018	Dr Michelle Cain	University of Oxford	Climate emissions metrics under ambitious mitigation
27/11/2018	Dr Mark Webb	Met Office	A physical mechanism for the relationship between low-level cloud feedback and double-ITCZ bias
04/12/2018	Prof Iain Hartley	University of Exeter	Determining the sources of the methane and carbon dioxide released following permafrost thaw in boreal Canada
11/12/2018	Dr Yves Plancherel	Grantham Institute	Searching for new tracers in marine geochemistry: the age of metals and their isotopes

Date	Speaker	Institute	Title
08/01/2019	Dr Yvonne Firing	National Oceanography Centre	Trends and Variability in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
15/01/2019	Dr Matthew Christensen	University of Oxford	A satellite perspective of aerosols and their influence on clouds
22/01/2019	-	-	-
29/01/2019	Prof Oliver Wild	Lancaster University	Global Uncertainty Analysis of Atmospheric Chemistry Models
05/02/2019	Prof Tristan L'Ecuyer	University of Wisconsin-Madison	postponed
12/02/2019	Prof David Stainforth	Grantham Institute (London School of Economics)	Does the way we evaluate climate models reduce their information content for science and policy?
19/02/2019 (Time change: 12:00-12:50)	Prof Mat Collins	University of Exeter	Improving Spatial Information in Projections of Climate Change
22/02/2019 (FRIDAY)	Prof Allison Wing	Florida State University	Moist thermodynamics of tropical cyclone formation and intensification in numerical simulations
26/02/2019	Dr Neven Fučkar	Environmental Change Institute (University of Oxford)	Elements of sea ice variability and predictability in the high north
05/03/2019	Dr Russell Blackport	University of Exeter	Arctic links to severe mid-latitude winters: Reconciling models and observations
12/03/2019	Prof Keith Shine	University of Reading	The relatively-neglected shortwave forcing by greenhouse gases
19/03/2019	Prof Nadine Unger	University of Exeter	postponed
04/04/2019 (THURSDAY)	Dr Gianluca Meneghello	MIT	The Ice-Ocean Governor: a simple model with real-world implications
15/04/2019 (MONDAY)	Dr Yi Ming	NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory	Recent advances in idealized modelling

Date	Speaker	Institute	Title
30/04/2019	Dr David Smeed	National Oceanography Centre	The reduced state of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
07/05/2019	Pending	-	-
14/05/2019	Prof Benjamin Muray	University of Leeds	postponed
21/05/2019	Mr Adrian Leung	University of Reading	Atmospheric predictability: the origins of the finite-time behaviour
28/05/2019	Prof Mike Cullen	Met Office	Use of a diagnostic based on semi-geostrophic theory to understand the behaviour of a comprehensive atmospheric circulation model on large scales
04/06/2019	Prof Ken Carslaw	University of Leeds	New insights into ice nucleation and its effect on cloud reflectivity
11/06/2019	Dr Nicolas Bellouin	University of Reading	-
18/06/2019	Prof Pier Luigi Vidale	University of Reading	-
25/06/2019	Prof Pierre Friedlingstein	University of Exeter	-
01/07/2019 (MONDAY)	Dr Malte Stuecker	Pusan National University

2017-2018

2016-2017

2015-2016

Autumn Term
Date	Speaker	Title
8th October	Andreas Klocker, University of Tasmania	Wave-turbulence-mean flow interaction in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
13th October	Erik Van Sebille, Imperial College London	Chasing water: Using Lagrangian particles to track water, heat, plankton and plastic through the global ocean
20th October	Simon Josey, NOC Southampton	From One Extreme to Another : Air-Sea interaction in the North Atlantic and Southern Oceans
27th October	Paulo Ceppi, University of Washington	Cloud feedbacks and their impacts on atmospheric circulation
3rd November	-	-
10th November	Thomas Spengler, University of Bergen	Maintenance of Storm Tracks and Baroclinicity
17th November	Alan Plumb, MIT	Dynamical Climate Perturbations, Annular Modes, and the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem
24th November	Len Shaffrey, Unversity of Reading	Climate change and North Atlantic storms
2nd December	Rhys Parfitt, Imperial College London	The interaction between atmospheric and oceanic fronts – the junction between weather and climate
8th December	Daniel Whitt, University of Cambridge	Near-inertial waves in strongly baroclinic currents: theory and oceanic applications
15th December	Benjamin Bronselaer, University of Oxford	Climate-carbon feedbacks:  relative impact of warming patternson ocean carbon and heat storage

Spring Term

Autumn Term 2015
Date	Speaker	Title
12th January	Moved to March 15th	-
19th January	Robin Hogen, ECMWF	What is the impact of 3D cloud radiative effects on weather and climate?
26th January	Amos Lawless, University of Reading	Data assimilation for coupled systems in environmental prediction
2nd February	Anna Augusta-Panareda, ECMWF	Overview of modelling and data assimilation of long-lived greenhouse gases within the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service at ECMWF
9th February	Ric Williams, University of Liverpool	Why is global warming nearly linearly dependent on how much carbon we emit?
16th February	Mike Fisher, ECMWF	Time-parallel algorithms for variational data assimilation
23rd February	Lenka Novak, Unversity of Reading	Predator-Prey Behaviour of Storm Tracks
1st March	Baylor Fox-Kemper, Brown University	Effects of ocean surface gravity waves: on turbulence, climate, and frontogenesis
8th March	Remi Tailleux, University of Reading	A new framework for identifying sources and sinks of available potential energy in tropical cyclones
15th March	Laure Zanna, University of Oxford	Suppression of AMOC variability at increased CO2
22nd March	Helene Hewitt, MetOffice	From parameterising to resolving: the role of eddies and resolution in coupled models

Summer Term

Date	Speaker	Title
26th April	Camille Li, University of Bergen	Probing causality in Arctic-midlatitude linkages
3rd May	Ben Booth, MetOffice	Beyond Global Warming: What drove past regional climate change?
10th May	David Marshall, University of Oxford	Adrian Gill’s model of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Revisited
17th May	Robert Marsh, University of Southampton	Intermediate complexity climate modelling and the pole-to-pole ocean circulation
24th May	Malcolm Roberts, MetOffice	Using high resolution global modelling for improved understanding of climate processes and implications
31st May	Andrew Meijers, British Antarctic Survey	The Ocean at the Centre of the Earth: Trends and variability in the Southern Ocean
7th June	Mark Webb, MetOffice	The impact of parametrized convection on cloud feedback
14th June	James Maddison, University of Edinburgh	What shape are ocean eddies?
21st June	Caroline Muller, CNRS	Physical processes leading to the organization of convection
12th July	Peter van Leeuwen, University of Reading	Nonlinear data assimilation, really? Without localisation?

2014-2015

Autumn Term
Date	Speaker	Title
7th October	No seminar
14th October	No seminar
21st October	No seminar
28th October	Chris Brierley, UCL	Tropical Cyclones and Past Climate
4th November	Andrew Friend, Cambridge
11th November	Sybren Drijfhout, Southampton	Is the AMOC the main source of uncertainty in regional climate change projections for the UK?
18th November	Jeremy Grist, NOC	Air-sea fluxes and the Atlantic Overturning Circulation
25th November	Gerd Folberth, Met Office	Plants and the Atmosphere – A Tale of Two Environments Tightly Entangled
2nd December	No seminar
9th December	No seminar
16th December	Mat Disney, UCL

Spring Term

Autumn Term 2015
Date	Speaker	Title
13th January	Dominick Spracklen, Leeds	Interactions between land cover change, atmospheric composition and climate
20th January	No seminar
27th January	Matt Rigby, Bristol
3rd February	Pavel Berloff, Imperial	Dynamically Consistent Parameterization of Mesoscale Eddies
10th February	No seminar
17th February	Richard Betts, Exeter
24th February	Tamaryn Napp, Imperial
3rd March	Andrew Turner, Reading
10th March	Dan Hodson, Reading / NCAS-Climate	Atlantic Multidecadal Variability: Consequences, Causes and Prediction?
17th March	Dan Jones, British Antarctic Survey (BAS)	How does Southern Ocean mode water ventilate the subtropics?
24th March	David Schultz, Manchester

Summer Term

Date	Speaker	Title
28th April	Massimo Bollasina, Edinburgh	Aerosol Forcing on Regional Climate Variability and Change: South Asia and the Monsoons
5th May	Aurelie Duchez, Southampton	Impact of the AMOC on Atlantic SSTs and European weather extremes
12th May	David Munday, BAS / Oxford
19th May	No seminar
26th May	Michaela Hegglin, Reading	Past stratospheric water vapour changes and implications for the stratospheric circulation
2nd June	Richard Allan, Reading	The global water cycle, with a focus on earth observation data of clouds, water vapour, rainfall and radiative energy balance
9th June	Christopher O'Reilly, Hokkaido University	The influence of the Gulf Stream SST profile on winter Euro-Atlantic circulation
12th June	Rachel White, University of Washington	Mountain geometry and the Pacific jet stream: Mongolian Matters!
16th June	Philip Stier, Oxford	Observational constraints on global aerosol cloud interactions
23rd June	Stephen Arnold, Leeds	Sources and impacts of tropospheric ozone pollution at high latitudes
14th July	Xuerong Qin and Paulina Cetina Heredia University of New South Wales, Australia	Sources of water masses and iron feeding the Equatorial Undercurrent
21st July	Kate Marvel, NASA Goddard and Columbia	Implications for climate sensitivity from the response to individual forcings

2013-2014

Autumn Term
Date	Speaker	Title
23rd September	Jamie Banks, Imperial College London	Satellite dust retrievals over the Sahara during teh Fennec campaign in June 2011
24th September	David Thompson, Colorado State University	Understanding large-scale climate variability in the Southern Hemisphere
8th October	Dai Yamazaki, Bristol	Physically-based modelling of large-scale flooding in continental-scale rivers
15th October	Benoit Vanniere, Imperial College London	Analysing coupled model biases using the adjustment of initialised simulations: application to the tropical Pacific
22nd October	Ian Boutle, Reading	Why does it always rain on me? Observations and modelling of stratocumulus clouds
29th October	Richard Chandler, UCL	Expoiting strength, discounting weakness: combining information from multiple climate simulators
5th November	Flora MacTavish, Grantham Institute for Climate Change	The IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report
6th November	Xu Liu, NASA	Radiative transfer model and retrieval algorithm development for hyperspectral satellite remote sensors
12th November	Mark Saunders, UCL	Weather and cliamte extremes research at MSSL/UCL
19th November	William Ingram, Oxford	Why does CO2 radiative forcing depend logarithmically on CO2 concentration?
29th November	Laura Wilcox, Reading	The influence of anthropogenic aerosol on multi-decadal variations of historical global and regional climate
3rd December	Jim Haywood, Met Office	Atmospehric aerosols and their climatic impact
10th December	Paul Young, Lancaster	Tropospheric zone 1850-2100: Many models, many answers?

Spring Term

Autumn Term 2015
Date	Speaker	Title
28th January	Ian Ashpole, Oxford
4th February	Adam Levy, Oxford	Rain, brains and climate change: improving understanding of regional precipitation with medical registration techniques
11th February	Cancelled
18th February	Alison Ming, Cambridge	The annual cycle in tropical lower stratospheric temperature: idealised model studies
25th February	Magdalena Balmaseda, ECMWF	Role of the ocean in teh recent hiatus in surface warming. An insight from an ocean reanalysis
4th March	Cancelled
11th March	Buwen Dong, Reading	Variability of the North Atlantic summer storm track: mechansisms and impacts on European climate
18th March	Roberto Buizza, ECMWF	ECMWF coupled ocean-atmosphere extended range prediction
25th March	Piers Forster, Leeds	How geoengineering might work in practice

Summer Term

Date	Speaker	Title
29th April	David Jackson, Met Office
6th May	Christian Buckingham
13th May	Danny Feltham, Reading	Next generation of sea ice models: new physics describing sea ice mechanics and melt
20th May	Rob Ewers, Imperial	Linkages between the physical environment and ecological processes in tropical rain forests
27th May	Andrew Suggit, Exeter
3rd June	David Brayshaw, Reading
10th June	Florian Pappenberger, ECMWF
17th June	Alex Archibald, Cambridge	Uncertainty in predictions of surface O3: the role of chemical mechanisms
24th June	Martin Wooster, King's College London

2012-2013

Autumn Term
Date	Speaker	Title
2nd October	Sue Gray, Reading	Diabatic influences on extratropical cyclones
9th October	Xiaoming Zhai, UEA	From wind power to ocean eddy graveyard
16th October	Kerstin Schepanksi, Leeds	Satellite-based observations of Saharan dust source areas
23rd October	Tom Smith, KCL	Smoke and mirrors: Infrared spectroscopty and radiometry for the study of biomass burning emissions
30th October	Chris Brierley, UCL	Structural climate change
13th November	Claire Ryder, Reading	Saharan dust: size matters
20th November	Caroline Bains, Met Office	Influences on convection over West Africa
27th November	Chris Wilson, NOCL	Southern Ocean adjustment in an eddying regime
4th December	Nick Schutgens, Oxford	Parametric and structural uncertainties in global aerosol modelling
11th December	Will Ball, Imperial	Solar variability and the effect on stratospheric ozone
12th December	Mark Baldwin, Exeter	Why does stratospheric variability affect surface weather and climate?

Spring Term

Autumn Term 2015
Date	Speaker	Title
15th January	Lucy Bricheno, NOCL	What effect does high model resolution have on winds, and therefore the ocean?
22nd January	Harry Leach, Liverpool	Watermass modification by mixing in the Weddell Gyre
19th February	Sue Grimmond, KCL	The importance of vegetation on urban surface-atmosphere exchanges: ecidence from measurements and modelling
26th February	Marcus Koehler, KCL	Regional growth in aircraft emissions: impacts of NOx on atmospheric chemistry and associated climate forcings
5th March	Paul Williams, Reading	Clear-air turbulence: will flights get bumpier because of climate change?
12th March	Bill Collins, Reading	Near-term climate mitigation
19th March	Sarah Moller, Leeds	Smoke Detectors - chasing forest fires in North America

Summer Term

Date	Speaker	Title
23rd April	Shaun Lovejoy, McGill	Emergent atmospheric laws: why the weather and the cliamte are not what you expect
30th April	Dave Topping, Manchester	New models to revisit the relationship between atmospheric aerosol size, composition and mass partitioning between multiple phases
7th May	John Taylor, Cambridge	Turbulence, submesoscales, and phytoplankton blooms at ocean fronts
14th May	Joe Kidston, Sydney	The relationship between the speed and the latitude of the eddy-driven jet; implications for climate change and stratosphere-troposphere coupling
28th May	Ralph Beeby, Kings
4th June	Oyvind Breivik, ECMWF	The impact of sea state on the ocean mixed layer - experiments with a coupled atmosphere-wave-ocean model
11th June	Ignacio Pisso, Oslo	Lagrangian particle dispersion modelling and source flux estimates of atmospheric tracers
18th June	Robert Plant, Reading	Numerical modelling of convective clouds. How real is "realistic-looking"?

2011-2012

Date	Speaker	Title
4th October	Professor Sir Brian Hoskins, Grantham Institute	"Predictability beyond the deterministic limit"
11th October	Dr. Simon Dadson, University of Oxford	"Landscape response to a changing climate"
18th October	Dr. Alexandra Weiss, BAS	"Atmospheric process studies in Antarctica"
25th October	Professor Hans Graf, University of Cambridge	"El Nino, Siberian Snow, the Polar Vortex and cold winters"
28th October	Dr. Stephen Leroy, Harvard 3pm	"Inferring Climate Change and Radio Occultation"
1st November	Dr. Tim J. Woollings, University of Reading	"Ocean-atmosphere interaction in the Atlantic storm track response to climate change"
8th November
15th November	Dr. Fred Prata, Norwegian Institute for Air Research 11am	"Grounded in Europe – The Science Behind the 2010 Volcanic Ash Crisis"
22nd November	Dr. Jean-Baptiste Sallee, BAS	"Mean flow and topography control on surface eddy mixing and water-mass subduction in the Southern Ocean"
29th November	Dr. Stuart Newman, Met Office	"Airborne and satellite observations of volcanic ash from the Eyjafjallajökull eruption"
2nd December	Dr. Michaela Hegglin, University of Toronto 11am	"Towards a one-atmosphere view of chemistry-climate coupling"
2nd December	Dr. Apostolos Voulgarakis 11:30am	"Atmospheric composition and climate"
6th December	Dr. Richard P. Allan, University of Reading	"Current and future changes in the global water cycle"
13th December	Professor Rowan Sutton, University of Reading	"Causes of the rapid warming of the North Atlantic Ocean in the mid 1990s and time of emergence of climate signals"
10th January	Dr. K. Giles, CPOM	"Observing the Arctic sea ice cover and ocean from space: Recent changes from Envisat and the current status of CryoSat-2"
17th January	Dr. Nicola Howe, ESSC Reading	"Decadal prediction of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: how little do we need to know?"
24th January	Dr. Miguel Angel M. Maqueda, National Oceanography Centre	"The dynamics of wind-driven polynyas"
31st January	Professor Carl Wunsch, MIT/Oxford	"Predicting the Ocean Circulation"
10th February	Dr. Felix Ng, University of Sheffield 12:00pm	"Wave structures in the firn of polar ice sheets"
17th February	Dr. Richard Reynolds, U.S. Geological Survey 12:00 p.m. Room 741B	"Iron oxide minerals in atmospheric dust and dust-source sediments—studies of types and properties to assess environmental effects"
21st February	Dr. Ed Hawkins, University of Reading	"Uncertainty in climate projections: from what to when"
28th February	Dr. Paul Holland, BAS	"Ocean and ice processes in the Antarctic shelf seas"

6th March	Dr. Julie Jones, University of Sheffield	"'Twentieth century behaviour of the Southern Annular Mode"
9th March	Professor Georgiy Stenchikov, KAUST 11am	"Quantifying regional climate sensitivity to radiative forcing in the Middle East and North Africa"
13th March	Dr. Adrian Hill, Met Office	"Investigating aerosol-cloud interactions - a reductionist approach"
20th March	Dr. Helen Dacre, University of Reading	"A New Method for Evaluating Regional Air Quality Forecasts"
1st May	Professor Robin Hogan, University of Reading	"Clouds and their turbulent environment"
8th May	Dr. Brian Kerridge, RAL	"PREMIER: ESA’s Earth Explorer 7 Candidate Mission to Sound Atmospheric Composition"
15th May	Professor Karen Heywood, University of East Anglia	"Ocean processes at the Antarctic continental slope"
22nd May	Dr. Samantha Smith, Met Office	"'Sensitivity of orographic rain enhancement to horizontal resolution in the operational Met Office weather forecasting model'"
29th May	Professor Eleanor Highwood, University of Reading	"Atmospheric aerosols: from composition to climate"
5th June	BANK HOLIDAY
12th June	Dr. Nigel Fox, NPL	"'SI traceable measurements from space: An essential tool for climate'"
19th June	Professor Gabriele Hegerl, University of Edinburgh 12:30pm	"Causes and implications of climate change over the last millennium"
20th June	Dr. Peter Miller, Plymouth Marine Laboratory 12:00 noon	"Satellite ocean front maps reveal dynamic surface currents: a new approach for model validation”
26th June	Dr. K. Horsburgh, National Oceanography Centre	POSTPONED
28th June	Dr. C. Morcrette & Dr. D. Smith, Met Office 11am	"Decadal climate prediction and evaluation of cloud parametrization schemes"

2010-2011

Date	Speaker	Title
12th October	Dr. Maarten Ambaum, University of Reading.	"The Climate Entropy and Energy Budgets"
2nd November	Dr. Remi Tailleux, University of Reading.	"Energetics of the ocean and the driving mechanisms of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation"
11th November (Thursday)	Dr. Peter Knippertz, University of Leeds.	"Towards an Improved Representation of Meteorological Processes in Models of Mineral Dust Emission"
16th November	Dr. Len Shaffrey, University of Reading.	"High-resolution coupled climate modelling"
23rd November	Dr. Simon Buckle, Grantham Institute for Climate Change.
30th November	Dr. Charlie Williams, University of Reading.	*Postponed
7th December	Dr. Ruth Doherty, University of Edinburgh.	*Postponed
25th January	Dr. Franco Molteni, European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts.
22nd February	Dr. Charlie Williams, University of Reading.	*Cancelled
1st March	Dr. Laure Zanna, University of Oxford.	*Cancelled
8th March	Dr. Ruth Doherty, University of Edinburgh.
15th March	Dr. Loic Jullion, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.
18th March	Dr. Rob Bryant, University of Sheffield.
22nd March	Dr. Shane Elipot, Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, Liverpool.
14th April	Dr. Tieh Yong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.	"Diurnal cycles in the maritime continent: propagating waves and standing-wave cavities"
10th May	Dr. Laure Zanna, University of Oxford.	"Low-Frequency Variability and Forecast Skill of Observed Atlantic Sea Surface Temperatures"
17th May	Dr. Ric Williams, The University of Liverpool.	"Climate variability in the ocean: North Atlantic heat storage and overturning"
24th May (Noon)	Dr. Jennifer Brown, Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, Liverpool.	"Coupled tide-surge-wave modelling in extreme storm conditions"
14th June (11:30am)	Dr. Alessio Bozzo, University of Edinburgh.
14st June (2pm)	Dr. Patrick Taylor, NASA Langley Research Centre

2006-2010

29-Jun-10	Eleanor Frajka-Williams	In situ observations of vertical velocity in a stratified eddy during deep ocean convection
22-Jun-10	Yvonne Hinssen	Variability of the winter stratosphere: the sudden stratospheric warming of 2009
08-Jun-10	John Marsham	Conclusions from the UK Convective Storm Initiation project (CSIP)
01-Jun-10	Giles Harrison	Solar-influenced atmospheric electricity changes and observations of clouds
25-May-10	Michael Herzog	Using results from an LES-type model to improve the representation of convective clouds in climate models
18-May-10	Manoj Joshi	Climate models and Earth system models: what the differences are and why they're important
04-May-10	Olivier Boucher	Aerosol modelling: from climate to numerical weather prediction
16-Mar-10	Agatha de Boer	Oceanic CO2 uptake during the last glacial period
09-Mar-10	Jonathan Gregory	Energetic analysis of simulated time-dependent changes in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in response to increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration
23-Feb-10	Philip Brown	Cloud Physics Research at the Met Office
16-Feb-10	Alexandre Gagon	tba
09-Feb-10	Ian Renfrew	Atmospheric forcing of the sub-polar seas around Greenland
02-Feb-10	Adrian Matthews	Primary and successive events in the Madden-Julian Oscillation
26-Jan-10	Alex Megann	New Insights into Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Modelling with the CHIME Model
19-Jan-10	David Stevens	High-resolution climate modelling and prediction
08-Dec-09	Philip Stier	tba
03-Dec-09	Georgiy Stenchikov	Long-term Climate Response to Short-term Volcanic Forcing
01-Dec-09	Chris Hughes	Jets, eddies, waves and meanders from sea level measurements
24-Nov-09	Alexey Karpechko	Southern hemisphere circulation in an era of ozone recovery
17-Nov-09	Alice Bows	Climate change & carbon budgets: the contribution of international transport emissions.
10-Nov-09	Elizabeth Kendon	Understanding extreme rainfall processes and the reliability of future predictions
03-Nov-09	John King	Recent climate change in the Antarctic Penisula: The role of orographic effects
27-Oct-09	Nicholas Klingaman	The role of atmosphere-ocean coupled processes in the intra- seasonal oscillation of the Indian summer monsoon
20-Oct-09	Alberto Naveira Garabato	Eddy-induced mixing in the Southern Ocean
13-Oct-09	Ned Ekins-Daukes	Atmospheric Cons iderations When Attempting to Estimate the Energy Yield from Photovoltaic Solar Concentrator Systems
18-Sep-09	Helen Worden	Instantaneous radiative kernels for tropospheric ozone: Satellite observations and model evaluation

08-Jul-08	Adrian Tuck	How molecular dynamics lead to atmospheric scale invariance
	(Visiting Professor to SPAT)
27-Jun-08	Stephanie Waterman	Eddy-Mean Flow Interactions in Western Boundary Current Jets: An observation-driven theoretical study
	(MIT/WHOI joint program)
24-Jun-08	Matthew Collins	Predicting climate change: ensembles, uncertainties and probabilities
	(Met Office)
17-Jun-08	Helen Hanlon	Attribution of changes in extreme weather risk: a study of the European Summer 2003 heatwave
	(Oxford)
12 June 2008, Wednesday 14:30	Matt Rigby	Renewed global growth of atmospheric methane
	(MIT)
10 June 2008, Thursday 14:30	Gabi Hegerl	Towards detecting and attributing impact relevant climate change
	(Edinburgh)
03-Jun-08	Don Grainger	Remote Sensing Aerosol: An Unconstrained Folly?
	(Oxford)
27-May-08	Andrew Thompson	Jets, vortices and eddy fluxes in baroclinic turbulence
	(Cambridge)
20-May-08	Rodrigo Caballero	Extratropical control of Hadley Cell strength in observations and global climate models
	(University College Dublin)
13-May-08	Sarah Ineson	ENSO and european climate - the role of the stratosphere
	(Met Office)
07-May-08	Alberto Troccoli	Towards a Seamless Weather/Climate Information System for Climate Risk Management
	(ex-ECMWF)
06-May-08	Jenny Griggs	Assessment of cloud cover characteristics in satellite datasets and reanalysis products for Greenland
	(Bristol)
01-May-08	Antje Weisheimer	Uncertainty and reliability of multi-model climate predictions
	(ECMWF)
30-Apr-08	Martin Juckes	Tropopause dynamics and baroclinic closure
Thursday 11.30	(Rutherford Appleton Lab)
29-Apr-08	Simon Osborne	The physical and optical properties of mineral dust and b iomass-burning aerosol during AMMA-SOP0
	(Met Office)
22-Apr-08	Roger Kingdon	Turbulent Rankine Vortices
18-Mar-08	Greg Smith	Using ocean reanalysis to detect climate signals
	(Reading)
11-Mar-08	Gaby Radel	Persistent contrails, their radiative impact and its dependence on cruise altitude
	(Reading)
26-Feb-08	Jonathan Bamber	The rapid response of the present-day ice sheets to external forcing
	(Bristol)
19-Feb-08	Elisa Carboni	Aerosol remote sensing from visible and infrared satellite measurements
	(Oxford)
15-Jan-08	Giovanna Tinetti	Observing extrasolar worlds: from gas giants to terrestrial planets
	(UCL)
11-Dec-07	Ed Hawkins	Variability and predictability of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation
	(Reading)
04-Dec-07	Matthew Piggot	Recent progress in the development of the adaptive mesh ocean model ICOM
	(Imperial College)
27-Nov-07	Sanjeev Gupta	Catastrophic flooding origin of 'island' Britain - (and some implications for the surface of Mars!)
	(Imperial College)
20-Nov-07	Lynette Clapp and Andrea Fraser (Imperial College Silwood)	Investigation of oxidant sources and trends in the UK

		Simulation of London air quality June 2006
13-Nov-07	Richard Allan (Reading)	Precipitation trends and changes in the tropical hydrological cycle
06-Nov-07	Francis Pope (Cambridge)	The ultraviolet absorption spectrum of chlorine peroxide (ClOOCl) and implications for ozone chemistry
23-Oct-07	Jonathon Tennyson (UCL)	Calculating the Spectrum of Water
16-Oct-07	Heike Langenberg (Nature)	How Nature Geoscience works
09-Oct-07	Dudley Chelton (COAS)	Satellite Altimeter Observations of Global Westward Energy Propagation
12/06/2007	Tim Woollings (University of Reading)	What is the North Atlantic Oscillation?
05/06/2007	Conny Schwierz (University of Leeds)	TBC
29/05/2007	Anu Dhudia (University of Oxford)	The MIPAS Instrument on Envisat
22/05/2007	Janet Barlow (University of Reading)	The DAPPLE Proj ect: Dispersion Experiments in Central London
08/05/2007	Helen Johnson (University of Reading)	Reconciling Theories of a Mechanically-driven Meridional Overturning Circulation with Thermohaline Forcing and Multiple Equilibria
24/04/2007	Claude Frankignoul (Paris)	Simulated Variability of the North Atlantic Circulation 1953 to 2003
20/03/2007	Hiro Yamazaki (AOPP, University of Oxford)	Ensemble modeling of the climate change over the last millennium using volunteer computers over the internet
13/03/2007	Dennis Wheeler (University of Sunderland)	Ships' logbooks, documents and the Millenium Project
06/03/2007	Sue Grimmond (King's College)	Challenges in Measuring Urban Fluxes of Carbon Dioxide and Water
27/02/2007	Robin Smith (University of Reading)	Factors limiting the anthropogenic carbon uptake to the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation
20/02/2007	Bruce Anderson (Boston University)	Influences of anthropogenic and oceanic forcing on top-of-atmosphere radiative fluxes and tropospheric temperatures
21/12/2006	John Burrows (University of Bremen)	Remote Sensing of Trace Atmospheric Constituents using GOME and SCIAMACHY
05/12/2006	Mar k Baldwin (Northwest Research Associates, USA)	Stratosphere - Troposphere Coupling and Climate Change
20/06/2006	Dr Mark Rodwell (ECMWF)	The use of NWP to assess climate models
13/06/2006	Dr Mike Molyneux (Met Office)	Practical Meteorological Measurements
23/05/2006	Dr Paul Williams (University of Reading)	The role of unresolved processes in climate modelling
16/05/2006	Dr Jonathan Gregory (University of Reading)	Radiative forcing and climate sensitivity
09/05/2006	Prof Raymond Hide (Imperial College)	Atmospheric Super-rotation and changes in the Earth's Rotation
25/04/2006	Dr Simon Retallack (Institute for Public Policy Research)	Climate Change

Date	Speaker	Institute	Title
20/09/2017	Prof. Ulrike Lohmann	ETH Zurich	Why does the influence of aerosols on clouds and climate remain uncertain?
03/10/2017	Dr. Jun-Ichi Yano	CNRM, Meteo France	Tropical atmospheric Madden-Julian oscillation: strongly-nonlinear free solitary Rossby wave?
10/10/2017	Dr. Daniel P Harrison	University of Sydney	Why it’s time we embraced the age of geoengineering research
17/10/2017	Prof. Ted Shepherd	Reading	Climate change: the challenge of atmospheric circulation
24/10/2017	Alyssa Gilbert	Imperial Grantham	The role of scientists in the face of global challenges: A place for everyone
31/10/2017	Dr. Rob Chadwick	Met Office	Understanding Tropical Water Cycle and Atmospheric Circulation Changes under Global Warming
03/11/2017 (Note: Friday, 12:00-13:00)	Prof. Tim Cronin	MIT	Arctic temperature profiles and their sensitivity to climate change
07/11/2017	Dr. Niklas F Boers	Imperial Grantham	Teleconnections of extreme rainfall events from regional to global scales
14/11/2017	Dr. David Ferreira	Reading	Climate of an Earth-like planet: the high-obliquity case and the tidally-locked case
21/11/2017	Dr. Claire Scannell	Met Office	Impact of remote anthropogenic aerosols on East and West African rainfall
28/11/2017	Dr. Paulo Ceppi	Reading	Implications of evolving SST warming patterns for atmospheric circulation and climate sensitivity
06/12/2017 (Note: Weds, 12:00-13:00, Blackett 1004)	Dr. Thomas Bracegirdle	British Antarctic Survey	Understanding model diversity in CMIP5 projections of westerly winds over the Southern Ocean
12/12/2017	-	-	No seminar

Date	Speaker	Institute	Title
09/01/2018	-	-	No seminar
16/01/2018	Prof. Euan Nisbet	Royal Holloway	Methane and the Paris Agreement
23/01/2018	Dr. Richard Jones	Met Office	From regional climate modelling to regional climate information
30/01/2018	Dr. Richard Millar	Oxford	1.5°C and the Paris Agreement: What it means, and pathways to achieving the Paris Agreement goals
06/02/2018	Dr. Tim Woolings	Oxford	Daily to decadal modulation of jet variability
13/02/2018	Prof. Hugh Coe	Manchester	Biomass burning in the tropics, aerosol properties and regional impacts
20/02/2018	Prof. Jonathan Gregory	Reading / Met Office	Sea level change in the Anthropocene
27/02/2018	-	-	No seminar
06/03/2018	William Ball	PMOD/WRC	Evidence for continued ozone layer reduction
13/03/2018	Marlene Kretschmer	Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)	Using Causal discovery algorithms to analyze drivers of the stratospheric polar vortex
20/03/2018	-	-	Seminar rescheduled
19/04/2018 (note: Thursday, 10:00-11:00, Huxley 503)	Dr. Florent Brient	ETH Zurich	Marine stratocumulus and their influence on the climate system

Date	Speaker	Institute	Title
01/05/2018	Dr. Anita Ganesan	University of Bristol	Understanding recent changes in atmospheric CH4 using multiple approaches
08/05/2018	Claudio Sanchez	Met Office	Using diabatic tracers to link predictability barriers to parametrization errors
15/05/2018	Dr. Dan Feldman	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Reducing Earth System Model High-Latitude Biases by Incorporating Observationally-Based Infrared Surface Emissivity
22/05/2018	Prof. John Thuburn	University of Exeter	Towards a 'multi-fluid' representation of convection in weather and climate models
25/05/2018 (Note: Fri, 11:00-12:00, Blackett 630)	Prof. Wouter Peters	University of Groningen and Wageningen University	Atmospheric constraints on carbon exchange over the Amazon
29/05/2018	Dr. Ali Mashayek	Oxford	Overturning the circulation of the ocean
05/06/2018	-	-	No seminar
12/06/2018	Dr. Hannah Christian	Oxford	Stochastic parameterisation: from weather to climate
19/06/2018	Dr. Christian Buckingham	British Antarctic Survey	Observational evidence of submesoscale baroclinic instability in the open ocean
26/06/2018	Dr. Elena Tarnavsky	Reading	Agro-meteorological Risk Applications using Earth Observation and Modelling
29/06/2018 (Note: Fri, 11:00-12:00)	Dr. Martin Singh	Monash University	Intense tropical & subtropical thunderstorms in a warmer climate

Date	Speaker	Institute	Title
04/10/2016	Dr. Balu Nadiga	Los Alamos	Two studies of dynamics at different scales: a) An interior route to dissipation of balanced energy in the ocean b) Ocean heat uptake in energy balance models
11/10/2016	Dr. Pablo Ortega	Reading	Mechanisms of decadal variability in the Labrador Sea and the wider North Atlantic and their role in the recent “cold blob"
18/10/2016	Dr. Daniel Mitchell	Oxford	Heat waves and climate change: from the physics to the impacts on human health
25/10/2016	Dr. David Ham	Imperial	Firedrake: a system for automating finite element simulations
01/11/2016	Dr. Frederic Vitart	ECMWF	How much complexity is needed for sub-seasonal prediction?
08/11/2016	Prof. Valerio Lucarini	Reading	Statistical mechanics of climate
15/11/2016	Dr. Laura Wilcox	Reading	The role of anthropogenic aerosol in global and regional change
22/11/2016	Dr. Doug Smith	Met Office	Seasonal to decadal prediction: progress and issues
29/11/2016	Dr. Phillipe Lopez	ECMWF	A paramaterization scheme for lightning
06/12/2016	Dr. Patrick Hyder	Met Office	Air-sea exchange variability and its atmosphere/ocean model resolution-dependence in HadGEM3
13/12/2016	Dr. Florian Sévellec	NOC	Dynamical attribution of oceanic prediction uncertainty in the North Atlantic

Date	Speaker	Institute	Title
10/01/2017	Prof. Alberto Garabato	University of Southampton	The role of submesoscale turbulence in regulating the annual cycle of the upper-ocean mixed layer
17/01/2017
24/01/2017	Dr. Chris Jones	Met Office	The carbon cycle behaviour under low mitigation scenarios, implications of the Paris Agreement
31/01/2017	Dr. Chris Brierley	UCL	Predicting abrupt coupled climate-ecosystem transitions
07/02/2017	Prof. Lesley Gray	Oxford	11-Year Solar Cycle Influence on the North Atlantic Oscillation - is there a Role for Ocean Amplification?
14/02/2017	Dr. Ed Cohen	Imperial	Wavelet coherence: a time-frequency approach to testing for correlations between non-stationary processes.
21/02/2017	Dr. Fiona O' Connor	Met Office	Methane at the Last Glacial Maximum
28/02/2017	Prof. Ranjeet Sokhi	University of Hertfordshire	Quantifying air quality on multiple scales - interactions, impacts and implications
07/03/2017	Dr. Matthew Palmer	Met Office	Earth's Energy Imbalance and Future Sea Level Rise
14/03/2017	Dr. Xiaoming Zhai	UEA	Decadal impact of including ocean surface currents in bulk formulas on surface air-sea fluxes and ocean general circulation
21/03/2017	Dr. Mark Parrington	ECMWF	Monitoring and forecasting long-range transport of wildfire emissions in the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service

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