CSL Seminar Series:

2016 Past Seminars

7 December 2016 Ice initiation by atmospheric aerosols in mixed phase clouds. Insights from controlled laboratory experiments and field observations.
Speaker: Markus Petters, North Carolina State University
9 November 2016 The value and purpose of the next generation climate models
Speaker: Reto Knutti, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
26 October 2016 Connecting Measurements of Ice Crystal Mass Growth from the Vapor and Numerical Modeling
Speaker: Jerry Harrington, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, Penn State University
22 September 2016 Global significance of multiphase chemistry for atmospheric composition and biogeochemical cycles
Speaker: Maria Kanakidou, Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, Greece
16 September 2016 Air pollution in China: some insights learned from past 20 years of research
Speaker: Tao Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
7 September 2016 On homogeneous ice formation in liquid clouds
Speaker: Bernd Kärcher, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, German Aerospace Center, and NOAA ESRL CSD / CIRES Visiting Fellow
5 August 2016 Recent events and future plans for NASA's Tropospheric Composition Program
Speaker: Barry Lefer, NASA
3 August 2016 Emergence of Healing in the Antarctic Ozone Layer
Speaker: Susan Solomon, MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
13 July 2016 Exploring the UV-Vis optical properties of biomass burning aerosols and potential chromophores
Speaker: Yinon Rudich, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
29 June 2016 Seeking for Black Carbon in the Arctic
Speaker: Andreas Herber and Hannes Schulz, Alfred Wegener Institut, Germany
8 June 2016 Characterizing variations in atmospheric composition over the period 270 - 2013 AD: Measurements of a Greenland ice core
Speaker: Eleanor Browne, University of Colorado Boulder
1 June 2016 Constraining the stratospheric sulfur budget with new in-situ measurements of SO2
Speaker: Drew Rollins, NOAA ESRL CSD and CU CIRES
18 May 2016 The interaction between Climate Forcing and Feedbacks
Speaker: Andrew Gettelman, NCAR
11 May 2016 El Niño and the stratospheric polar vortex: improving seasonal prediction of mid-latitude winter climate
Speaker: Amy Butler, NOAA ESRL CSD and CU CIRES
27 April 2016 Improving Anthropogenic Emission Inventories using Atmospheric Observations
Speaker: Brian McDonald, NOAA ESRL CSD & CIRES visiting fellow
7 April 2016 Impact of Convective Cloud Height, Overshooting Convection and ENSO on the Distribution of Cloud Ice in the Tropical UT/LS
Speaker: Melody Avery, NASA Langley Research Center
30 March 2016 Ozone-induced vegetation loss in the US: impacts of foreign versus domestic sources and implications for future emission changes
Speaker: Kateryna Lapina, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder
28 March 2016 How well can the CMIP5 models estimate Earth's energy budget?
Speaker: Erik Larson, NOAA ESRL CSD and CIRES
2 March 2016 NOAA's HYSPLIT atmospheric transport and dispersion modeling system: history, applications, and new developments
Speaker: Ariel Stein, NOAA Air Resources Lab
25 February 2016 The contribution of outdoor air pollution sources to premature mortality on a global scale
Speaker: Jos Lelieveld, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany, and The Cyprus Institute, Energy, Environment and Water Research Center, Cyprus
10 February 2016 Dust in the wind: the microbial ecology of indoor and outdoor air
Speaker: Noah Fierer, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder
27 January 2016 Use of In-Situ Observations for Quantifying Ice Cloud Microphysical Properties and Processes, and their Uncertainties
Speaker: Greg McFarquhar, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Illinois, and NCAR