2008
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Date |
Speaker (Affiliation) |
Title |
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01/01/2008 |
No lunch seminar |
Happy New Year! |
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01/04/2008 (Friday) (special) |
George Philander (Princeton) |
Changes in the Milankovitch cycles over the past 3 million years. |
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01/08/2008 |
Tao Li (JPL) |
Inter-annual variations of middle atmospheric temperature observed by the JPL lidars at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii (19.5?N, 155.6?W) and Table Mountain Observatory, California (34.4?N, 117.7?W) |
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01/15/2008 |
Baijun Tian (JPL) |
Exploring the Chemical Reach of the Madden-Julian Oscillation |
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01/22/2008 |
Gerry J. Wasserburg (Caltech) |
Magnetic Bubbles and Mixing in Stars |
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01/29/2008 |
Hyman Hartman (MIT) |
Desert Dust |
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02/05/2008 |
Jean O. Dickey (JPL) |
Thermal Wind Forcing, Atmospherc Angular Momentum & Earth Rotation: Origin of the Earth's Delayed Response to ENSO |
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02/05/2008 |
Steve Marcus (JPL) |
Geodetic Constrains on Sea Level Rise: Using Earth Oblateness as a Metric for Land Ice Ablation |
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02/12/2008 |
Xun Jiang (JPL) |
Remote Sensing of CO2 in the middle troposphere by the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder |
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02/19/2008 |
Fuu-Ming Kai (UCI) |
Changes In Atmospheric Methane And Its Stable Isotope Signatures Between 1979-2005 Deduced From Interhemispheric Differences and Trends |
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02/26/2008 |
Alex Hayex (Caltech) |
Hydrocarbon Lakes on Titan: Distribution and Interaction with a Porous Regolith |
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03/04/2008 |
John E. Mak (SBU) |
Investigating the stability of the global tropospheric oxidation potential using atmospheric 14CO |
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03/11/2008 |
Yunsoo Choi (JPL) |
Upper and lower tropospheric perturbations on O3 and its precursors from spaceborne observations: Lightning NOx and biogenic-derived CO productions |
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03/18/2008 |
Steven Pawson (NASA/GSFC) |
Modeling of Stratospheric Ozone in the Climate System |
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03/25/2008 |
Leigh Fletcher (JPL) |
Hot Poles, Hexagons, Storms and Plumes:The Changing Atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn. |
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04/01/2008 |
Terry Kubar (UW) |
The Vertical Structure of Tropical Convective Clouds and its Relation to Precipitation |
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04/08/2008 |
Glenn Orton (JPL) |
Long-Term Observations of Thermal Emission from Saturn: Discovery of a Semi-Annual Oscillation in Sature's Stratosphere |
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04/09/2008 Special Seminar |
Frank Mills |
Selected topics from Venus' atmospheric chemistry: CO2, O3, airglow, aerosols, and/or SOx |
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04/15/2008 |
No seminar |
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04/22/2008 |
Hartmut H. Aumann (JPL) |
Frequency of severe storms and global warming. |
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04/29/2008 |
Mark Richardson (Caltech) |
Some Coolness Concerning (Martian) Global Warming and Reflections on the Role of Surface Dust |
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05/06/2008 |
Bill Irion (JPL) |
Optimal Estimation Retrieval of CO2 from AIRS spectra |
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05/06/2008 |
Manuel de la Torre (JPL) |
A review of some large scale Non-hydrostatic effects on equatorial motion: Equatorial Geostrophic balance, Inertial instability, and Kelvin wave phase speeds. |
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05/13/2008 |
Tom Ackerman (UW) |
Clouds in Climate Models: Real, lies, or statistics? |
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05/20/2008 |
Gretchen Keppel-Aleks (Caltech) |
Carbon Weather in Total Column CO2 observations |
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05/27/2008 |
Jean-Philippe Beaulieu (Institut dAstrophysique de Paris) |
Searching for low mass extra solar planets via microlensing. |
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06/03/2008 |
Run-Lie Shia (Caltech) |
Self-Healing in The Recovery Phase of the Antarctic Ozone Hole |
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06/03/2008 |
Yuk Yung (Caltech) |
Atmospheric Nitrous Oxide (N2O): A Window into the Nitrogen Cycle |
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06/10/2008 |
Xianming Liu |
Experimental and coupled-channels investigation of N2 radiative properties for analysis of terrestrial FUSE dayglow observation |
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06/17/2008 |
William Read (JPL) |
The Roles of Convection, Extratropical Mixing, and In-Situ Freeze-drying in the Tropical Tropopause Layer |
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06/24/2008 |
Joao Teixira(JPL) |
Turbulence,clouds and climate models: Tropical and subtropical cloud transitions |
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07/01/2008 |
Xu Zhang (JPL) |
Phenyl (C6H5) and Diacetylene (C4H2) on Titan and their Ionization Energy Measurements |
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07/08/2008 |
Kirill Kuzanyan(Leeds Univ., England) |
Compressible convection in rapidly rotating spherical atmospheres of giant planets |
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07/09/2008 (Special seminar) |
Joyce Penner (Univ. of Michigan) |
Effects of aerosols on cirrus clouds |
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07/15/2008 |
Kevin Hand (JPL) |
Sir Maxwell goes to Europa: Electromagnetic field and particle interactions of an ice-covered ocean world. |
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07/22/2008 |
Michael Line (Caltech) |
Analysis of the Spitzer IRS Spectrum of Neptune |
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07/29/2008 |
Zane A. Selvans |
Cracks, Tides, and Time on Europa |
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08/05/2008 |
Jonathan Jiang (JPL) |
Multi-Satellite Observations of Aerosol, Ice Clouds and Precipitation Relations |
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08/12/2008 |
Michael Line (Caltech) |
Fabry-Perot Observations of the Extended Lunar Sodium Tail |
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08/19/2008 |
Surf students (Caltech) |
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08/26/2008 |
Elise Furlan (JPL) |
Signposts of Disk Evolution in Young Protoplanetary Disks |
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09/02/2008 |
Mark Richardson (Caltech) |
Adventures in Designing and Proposing Meteorology Stations for Mars |
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09/09/2008 |
Cancelled |
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09/16/2008 |
Ian McEwan (Caltech) |
Acoustic Anemometry on Mars |
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09/23/2008 |
Laurence Yeung (Caltech) |
Meridional Variation in Stratospheric (13)C(18)O(16)O |
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09/30/2008 |
Nima Ghaderi (Caltech) |
Nonstatistical effects in ozone formation and dissociation: Trajections and theory |
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10/07/2008 |
Eric Wlicox (Goddard Space Flight Center)/NASA |
Satellite observations of deep cumulus convection and GCM predictions of changes in extreme rain events |
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10/14/2008 |
Cancelled due to DPS |
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10/21/2008 |
Cancelled |
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10/28/2008 |
Minghuai Wang (Univ. of Michigan) |
Aerosol indirect effects in a global model |
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11/04/2008 |
Brian Kahn (JPL) |
An observational view of clouds, temperature, humidity, and small-scale variability using the A-train |
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11/11/2008 |
Kunio Sayanagi (Caltech) |
Wave Contributions to Stratosphere-Troposphere Momentum Exchange in the Jovian Atmospheres |
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11/18/2008 |
Greg Holloway (Institute of Ocean Sciences) |
The origin of eddy stresses in large scale (2D) shear flows |
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11/25/2008 |
Lee-Lueng Fu (JPL) |
Progress and challenges in observing ocean circulation from space |
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12/02/2008 |
Cancelled |
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12/11/2008 |
Bin Guan (University of Maryland) |
Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures and Long-term Hydroclimate Variations Over the Great Plains |
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12/16/2008 |
Cancelled due to AGU |
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12/23/2008 |
Merry Christmas! |
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12/30/2008 |
Happy New Year! |
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