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Accelerated Arctic warming. Simulations by global climate models show that when sea ice is in rapid decline, the rate of predicted Arctic warming over land can more than triple.

Events: Next 2 Weeks

Seminar
When: Tuesday, 10 November 2009, at 3:30 pm
Location: ML Main Seminar
Warm Worlds of Earth's Deep Past: A View to Earth's Future?
Jeff Kiehl, (NCAR) - Speaker's Homepage

Seminar
When: Wednesday, 11 November 2009, at 10:30 am
Location: FL2 Auditorium (1022)
Microfronts, Solitary Waves and Other Things in the Night
Larry Mahrt, (Oregon State University)

Seminar
When: Thursday, 12 November 2009, at 3:30 pm
Location: FL2 Auditorium (1022)
The Space-Time Cascade Structure of the Atmosphere and its Numerical Models
Shaun Lovejoy, (Physics, McGill University, Canada)

Seminar
When: Thursday, 12 November 2009, at 3:30 pm
Location: ML Main Seminar
A new conservative semi-Lagrangian multi-tracer transport scheme (CSLAM) for non-traditional spherical grids and application to general remapping algorithms
Peter Hjort Lauritzen, (NCAR) - Speaker's Homepage

Seminar
When: Tuesday, 17 November 2009, at 3:30 pm
Location: ML Main Seminar
Observing Sensitivity: How imperfect models can help us measure unknown climate parameters
Ben Sanderson, (NCAR/CGD) - Speaker's Homepage

Seminar
When: Thursday, 19 November 2009, at 3:30 pm
Location: FL2 Auditorium (1022)
Towards Trace-Gas Sensor Networks Based on Mid-Infrared Laser Spectroscopic Sensing
Gerard Wysocki and Stephen So, (Electrical Engineering Dept., Princeton University, Princeton, NJ)

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ESSL Research Topics

  • Science of Weather Prediction
  • Global Atmospheric Dynamics
  • Physical Meteorology
  • Atmospheric Photochemistry
  • Oceanography and Cryosphere
  • Land Biophysics and Biogeochemistry
  • Experimental Meteorology
  • Solar Interior and Variability
  • Solar Atmosphere
  • Space Weather and Upper Atmosphere
  • Earth's Middle Atmosphere
  • Atmospheric Radiation and Remote Sensing
  • Climate System and Climate Change
  • Paleo-Climatology
  • Global Water System
  • Regional Climate

Presentations

Recent ESSL Publications

Dunlea, E. J., P. F. DeCarlo, A. C. Aiken, et al, 2009: Evolution of Asian aerosols during transpacific transport in INTEX-B. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 7257-7287.

Qian, L., A. G. Burns, S. C. Solomon, et al, 2009: The effect of carbon dioxide cooling on trends in the F2-layer ionosphere. J. Atmos. Sol. Terr. Phys., doi: 10.1016/j.jastp.2009.03.006.

Heymsfield, A. J., D. Baumgardner, P. DeMott, et al, 2009: Contrail microphysics. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc..

Heymsfield, A. J., A. Bansemer, G. Diskin, et al, 2009: On the measurement of small ice particles from aircraft: Extinction and effective radius. J. Atmos. Ocean. Technol..

Heymsfield, G. M., L. Tian, A. J. Heymsfield, et al, 2009: Tropical and subtropical convection characteristics. J. Atmos. Sci..