[Grad-postdoc-assn] REMINDER! Thompson Lecture Series with Dr. Geoffrey Vallis TOMORROW!

[Micah Hahn]

Hi NCAR Postdocs,

Just a reminder that the Thompson Lecture Series (TLS) featuring Dr. 
Geoffrey Vallis starts tomorrow and runs through Friday.  You can find 
the full schedule here 
<https://wiki.ucar.edu/display/aspthompson08/Dr.+Geoffrey+Vallis+schedule+%28Nov+20-22%2C+2013%29>. 
You can read more about the TLS and Dr. Vallis here 
<https://wiki.ucar.edu/display/aspthompson08/About+Dr.+Geoffrey+Vallis>. 
Abstracts for Dr. Vallis's two lectures are below.

The list of all the social events is below.  You can still sign up for 
individual meetings with Dr. Vallis at the links provided. There are a 
couple slots on Thursday and Friday still open.  Also, don't forget the 
postdoc potluck tomorrow night.  You can sign up to bring a dish below.
*
**Wed, Nov 20*
Lunch with postdocs - 12:30-2pm, ML Cafeteria
5 slots for postdoc meetings 
<https://wiki.ucar.edu/display/aspthompson08/Individual+meetings+with+Geoffrey> 
- 2-5pm, ML Chapman Room
Potluck dinner with postdocs and their families 
<https://wiki.ucar.edu/display/aspthompson08/Potluck+dinner+with+Geoffrey+%28Nov+20%2C+2013%29> 
- 5:30pm, ML Damon Room

*Thurs, Nov 21*
Lunch with postdocs - 12:30-2pm, FL Cafeteria
5 slots for postdoc meetings 
<https://wiki.ucar.edu/display/aspthompson08/Individual+meetings+with+Geoffrey> 
- 2-5pm, FL2 1003
Dinner at The Med - 6:30pm (contact Kyla with questions - kdahlin at ucar.edu)
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**Fri, Nov 22*
Breakfast and science discussion with postdocs - 9-10:30am, South Auditorium
3 slots for postdoc meetings 
<https://wiki.ucar.edu/display/aspthompson08/Individual+meetings+with+Geoffrey> 
- 10:30am-12pm, South Auditorium


See you there!
Micah


*General Interest Lecture
Wed, Nov. 20th - 11am-12:30pm
ML Main Seminar Room
*

/The Response of the Large-Scale Circulation to Global Warming/

Comprehensive climate models are unanimous in predicting a warming when 
greenhouse gases are added. Although there is some disagreement about 
the magnitude of the response to the warming, there is much more 
disagreement about regional changes in weather and climate. Speaking a 
little loosely, one might say that thermodynamic changes seem to be much 
more robust than dynamical changes, and this can be ascribed to the 
nonlinearity of the equations of motion.

In this talk I will first discuss what the globally averaged temperature 
response that will actually result from increased greenhouse gases is 
likely to be based on empirical methods. I will then discuss what the 
response of the circulation might be, including changes in the height of 
the tropopause and shifts in the latitude of the main features of the 
circulation.

*
**Science Lecture
Thurs, Nov. 21st - 11-12:30pm
FL2 1022
/
/*/Jets and Superrotation in Idealized Atmospheres/

I will discuss the mechanisms of zonal jets, and in particular of 
equatorial superrotation, using very idealized numerical models using 
the primitive equations on the sphere. It is well-known that zonal jets 
robustly arise in rotating atmospheres there is a wavemaker at a 
particular latitude. Rossby waves are then generated that propagate 
away, and eastward momentum converging on the source region producing a 
zonal jet. Such a mechanism produces the jet stream on Earth and, most 
likely, the jets on giant planets including the equatorial 
superrotation. However, on slowly rotating terrestrial atmospheres it 
seems unlikely that superrotation is produced by that mechanism. Rather, 
simulations indicate that, at small thermal Rossby number, a mechanism 
involving equatorial Kelvin waves is involved.



-- 
Micah B. Hahn, PhD, MPH
NCAR | CDC Postdoctoral Research Fellow
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Climate Science and Applications Program
PO Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307
Office: 303-497-2894
Fax: 303-497-8386
mhahn at ucar.edu

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