ICAS External Seminars

ICAS External Seminars

External seminars are Tuesday 2-3pm unless otherwise stated.

If you want to meet the speaker please contact the host.

Upcoming seminars

Date Speaker Title Host Location
5th July, 2-3pm Andrew Sturman, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Assessing the sustainability of vineyard regions in a changing climate: an application in mesoscale meteorology and climatology Alan Gadian School of Earth and Environment 10.125
27th Sept, Tues 2-3pm Michael Baldauf

Past Seminars

Date Name Title Host Location
20th May 2009 Dr. Lina Mercado, CEH Impact of Changes in Diffuse Radiation on the global land carbon sink Chemistry LTB
3rd June 2009 Dr. Stephen Sitch From biota to chemistry and climate - advances in modelling trace-gas exchange between the biospherea nd atmosphere Roger Stevens LT16
23rd July 2009, Thurs 2-3pm Dr. Nadine Unger, GISS Cleaning air pollution: to mitigate or to accelerate climate change? Environment LT E
11th Sept 2009, Fri 1-2pm Ivana Stipersk, Meteorological and Hydrological Service, Croatia Trapped Lee Wave Interference over Double Bell-shaped Mountains Victoria Smith Environment LT E
23rd Sept 2009, Wed 3-4pm Jennifer Logan, Harvard University Fire Injection Heights: A View from MISR and Models Mat Evans Chemistry LT D
13th Oct 2009, Tues 2-3pm Tom Ryerson (NOAA) Atmospheric composition over the Arctic Mat Evans Roger Stevens LT01 (7.01)
21st Oct 2009, Wed, 2-3pm Ralf Bennartz, University of Wisconsin Madison Cloud-Aerosol Interactions from a Satellite Perspective Peter Knippertz Chemistry LTD
27th Oct 2009, Tues 2-3pm David Karoly The heatwaves and bushfires in SE Australia and climate change impacts on wildfire risk Piers Forster Roger Stevens LT01 (7.01)
25th Nov 2009, Wed, 2-3pm Manoj Joshi, NCAS Climate Reading Understanding the land/sea warming contrast in climate change Piers Forster Roger Stevens LT01 (7.01)
6th Jan 2010, Wed 2-3pm Vaughan Phillips, University of Hawaii The potential influence from biological aerosol particles on deep convection Steven Dobbie Roger Stevens LT16 (12.16)
3rd Feb 2010, Wed, 2-3pm Thorsten Mauritsen, Max Plank Institute Arctic aerosol, clouds and the surface energy budget Ian Brooks Roger Stevens LT07 (7.07)
10th Feb 2010, Wed, 2-3pm Jeffrey Chagnon, University of Reading Perspectives on the mesoscale dynamics of convective systems: Potential vorticity and gravity waves John Marsham Roger Stevens LT07 (7.07)
11th Feb 2010, Thurs, 2-3pm Wojciech Grabowski Modeling of cloud-aerosol interactions Alan Gadian Roger Stevens LT08 (9.08)
1st Mar 2010, Mon, 3-4pm Folkert Boersma, KNMI Attributing sources of the tropospheric ozone from space Dominick Spracklen School of Earth and Environment 8.119a and b
24th Mar 2010, Wed, 1-2pm Prof Jonathan Gregory, University of Reading, NCAS, Met Office Energetic analysis of changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) under increasing CO2 Piers Forster School of Earth and Environment 8.119a and b
2nd Jun, Wed 2-3pm Collete Heald, CSU Organic Aerosol: A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma Dominick Spracklen Baines Wing Miall LT (2.34)
3rd Jun, Thurs 1-2pm Jorgen Jensen, NCAR Factors that Impact the Formation of Warm Rain in Marine Stratocumulus Alan Blyth School of Earth and Environment 8.119a and b
9th Jun, Wed 2-3pm Ilona Riipinen, CMU Nucleation as a source of atmospheric aerosol: Implications of particle formation mechanisms and ultrafine growth descriptions Dominick Spracklen Roger Stevens LT 01 (7.01)
15th Jun, Tues 2-3pm Sonia Lasher-Trapp, Purdue Initiation of Coalescence in a Cumulus Cloud: Influence of Variability in Drop Growth Histories Produced by Entrainment Alan Gadian School of Earth and Environment 8.119b
22nd Jun, Tues 2-3pm Gavin McMeeking, Manchester University How I learned to stop worrying and love black carbon aerosol Mark Bart School of Earth and Environment 8.119a and b
2nd July, Fri 2-3pm George Bryan, NCAR John Marsham School of Earth and Environment 8.119a and b
4th October, Mon 3-4pm David Fahey, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder Black carbon aerosol measurements in urban and remote regions & Demonstrating the Global Hawk unmanned aircraft for earth science applications Piers Forster School of Earth and Environment 8.119a and b
5th October, Tues 2-3pm Michiel van den Broeke, Utrecht University Mass balance of the great ice sheets Andrew Shepherd School of Earth and Environment 8.119a and b
12th October, Tues 2-3pm Lorenzo Labrador, Manchester University Studies of the cloud optical properties using high-resolution hyperspectral data during the VOCALS campaign. Preliminary results. Jim McQuaid School of Earth and Environment 8.119a and b
19th October, Tues 2-3pm Jonathan Rougier, Bristol University What can pollen tell us about palaeoclimate? Lindsay Collins School of Earth and Environment 8.119a and b
26th October, Tues 2-3pm Ina Tegen, Institute of Tropospheric Research in Leipzig (Germany) Regional modeling of Saharan dust and its direct radiative effect in the framework of the German SAMUM project Kerstin Schepanski School of Earth and Environment 8.119a and b
2nd November ICAS Away Day N/A N/A N/A
9th November, Tues 2-3pm Christian Pfrang, Reading University Ageing Atmospheric Aerosol: Synergies between Model and Experiment Maria Baeza Romero School of Earth and Environment 8.119a and b
17th November, Wed 2-3pm Thanos Nenes, Georgia Institute of Technology Aerosol-Cloud Interactions: An important but elusive agent of climate change Jim McQuaid Roger Stevens LT 24 (10.24)
25th November, Thurs 2-3pm Hans Graf, University of Cambridge A new convection parameterization: Some achievements and some challenges Steven Dobbie School of Earth and Environment 8.119a and b
27th Jan, Thurs 2-3pm Bill Bloss, University of Birmingham Atmospheric HOx production: Extra radicals from alkenes? Jim McQuaid School of Earth and Environment 8.119a and b
8th February 2011, Tues 2-3pm Wojciech Grabowski Macroscopic impacts of cloud and precipitation processes in shallow convection Alan Gadian School of Earth and Environment 8.119a and b
15th February 2011, Tues 2-3pm Brian Golding, Met Office Current developments in weather forecasting Doug Parker School of Earth and Environment 8.119a and b
8th March 2011, Tues 2-3pm Glenn Shutts, ECMWF Stochastic parametrisation in atmospheric modelling Doug Parker School of Earth and Environment 8.119a and b
15th March 2011, Tues 2-3pm Bob Beare, Exeter University Balanced models of boundary layer convergence Doug Parker School of Earth and Environment 8.119a and b
10th May, Tues 2-3pm Corinna Hoose, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Aerosol influence on cloud ice formation at warm subzero temperatures - insights from models and experiments Ben Murray School of Earth and Environment 8.119a and b
17th May, Tues 5-6pm Prof Andy Ridgwell, School of GeographicalSciences, University of Bristol Ocean Acidification: The other CO2 problem? Ben Murray School of Earth and Environment 8.119a and b
Thursday 19th May, 3-4pm Ana Maria Yanez Serrano, Lund University Within-canopy sesquiterpene ozonolysis in Amazonia Dominick Spracklen School of Earth and Environment 8.119a and b
Friday 20th May, 3-4pm Hiroe Yamazaki, Kyoto University Cartesian coordinate atmospheric modeling for next-generation ultra-high resolution simulations Sarah-Jane Lock School of Earth and Environment 8.119a and b
24th May, 3-4pm Rob Mackenzie John Pyle's cat: using box models of atmospheric chemistry to examine sustainability claims Jim McQuaid School of Earth and Environment 8.119a and b
5th July, 2-3pm Andrew Sturman, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Assessing the sustainability of vineyard regions in a changingclimate: an application in mesoscale meteorology and climatology Alan Gadian School of Earth and Environment 10.125

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Dominick Spracklen, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT
Tel: +44 113-343-7488
dominick@env.leeds.ac.uk