<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="m_-2414666719494712067gmail-m_-8754906266215440101HOEnZb"><div class="m_-2414666719494712067gmail-m_-8754906266215440101h5"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Dear NCAR Postdocs,</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><u></u></p><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">This Wednesday, we will have three-day activities with <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Dr. Dargan Frierson</span>, <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">an associate professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington. </span><span style="font-size:small">A more detailed schedule (including opportunities to sign up for individual meetings) is available </span><a href="https://wiki.ucar.edu/pages/viewpage.action?spaceKey=aspthompson08&title=Schedule+of+events%2C+Dr.+Dargan+M.+W.+Frierson" style="font-size:small" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(56,110,255)">on the wiki</span></a><span style="font-size:small">. </span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:small">Only three slots are still available. P</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">lease take this opportunity to learn from this experienced faculty. Also, please sign up for the potluck and the dinner out.</span></div><span class=""><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b>The main events are listed below:</b><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> Wednesday, Nov. 30 (</b><b>Foothills</b><b> Lab)<br>
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<li>Breakfast and science+career discussion - 9:00 - 10:30 am, FL2 - 1002</li>
<li><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"times new roman""></span>Science seminar - 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, FL Main Seminar room</li>
<li>Lunch with postdocs - 12:00-1:30 pm, FL Cafeteria</li>
<li>Potluck dinner (families welcome!) - 5:30 pm, <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">FL3 atrium</span> (<a href="https://wiki.ucar.edu/display/aspthompson08/Potluck+dinner+with+Dr.+Dargan+M.+W.+Frierson+signup" target="_blank">sign up here</a>)</li>
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<p><b><b> Thursday</b>, Dec. 1 (Mesa Lab)</b><br>
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<li>General seminar - 11-12, ML Main Seminar room</li>
<li>Lunch with postdocs - 12:00-1:30 pm, ML Cafeteria</li>
<li><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"times new roman""> </span>Informal dinner out - 5:30 pm (<a href="https://wiki.ucar.edu/display/aspthompson08/Dr.++Dargan+M.+W.+Frierson+Informal+dinner+out+signup" target="_blank">sign up here</a>)</li>
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<p><b> Friday, Dec. 2<sup> </sup></b><b>(</b><b>Mesa</b><b> Lab)</b></p>
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<li>Breakfast and science+career discussion - 9-10:30 am, ML Damon room</li>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thompson Lecture Committee <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Andy Prein, Lisa Kaser, Farshid Nazari, Ying Pan<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">, David Gagne</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Dr. </b><b>Frierson</b><b>'s</b> <b>Bio</b><u></u><u></u></p>
<p><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">My primary research focus is the effect of water vapor on the global circulation of the atmosphere. I've studied </span><a href="http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~dargan/summaries/fhz07.html" class="m_-2414666719494712067gmail-m_-8754906266215440101m_-3415755223995756512m_6802146440032088951external-link" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px" target="_blank">atmospheric energy fluxes</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">, the </span><a href="http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~dargan/summaries/f07a.html" class="m_-2414666719494712067gmail-m_-8754906266215440101m_-3415755223995756512m_6802146440032088951external-link" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px" target="_blank">strength</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"> and </span><a href="http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~dargan/summaries/flc07.html" class="m_-2414666719494712067gmail-m_-8754906266215440101m_-3415755223995756512m_6802146440032088951external-link" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px" target="_blank">width</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"> of the Hadley circulation, the effect of moisture on </span><a href="http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~dargan/summaries/fhz06.html" class="m_-2414666719494712067gmail-m_-8754906266215440101m_-3415755223995756512m_6802146440032088951external-link" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px" target="_blank">midlatitude static stability</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">, and the dynamics of </span><a href="http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~dargan/summaries/f07b.html" class="m_-2414666719494712067gmail-m_-8754906266215440101m_-3415755223995756512m_6802146440032088951external-link" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px" target="_blank">convectively coupled tropical waves</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">, often in simplified settings with the goal being a better understanding of how these phenomena work. </span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">As tools for my research, I utilize everything from </span><a href="http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~dargan/summaries/f06.html" class="m_-2414666719494712067gmail-m_-8754906266215440101m_-3415755223995756512m_6802146440032088951external-link" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px" target="_blank">coupled climate models</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"> and </span><a href="http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~dargan/summaries/pfghv06.html" class="m_-2414666719494712067gmail-m_-8754906266215440101m_-3415755223995756512m_6802146440032088951external-link" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px" target="_blank">cloud resolving models</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"> to highly idealized mathematical models (e.g, one-dimensional first baroclinic mode models of the </span><a href="http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~dargan/summaries/fmp04.html" class="m_-2414666719494712067gmail-m_-8754906266215440101m_-3415755223995756512m_6802146440032088951external-link" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px" target="_blank">Walker circulation</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">). I wrote a </span><a href="http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~dargan/summaries/thesis.html" class="m_-2414666719494712067gmail-m_-8754906266215440101m_-3415755223995756512m_6802146440032088951external-link" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px" target="_blank">simplified moist general circulation model</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"> during my graduate work at Princeton, which my collaborators and I have used to study the effect of moisture on </span><a href="http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~dargan/summaries/fhz06.html" class="m_-2414666719494712067gmail-m_-8754906266215440101m_-3415755223995756512m_6802146440032088951external-link" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px" target="_blank">midlatitude eddy scales</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">, </span><a href="http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~dargan/summaries/fhz07.html" class="m_-2414666719494712067gmail-m_-8754906266215440101m_-3415755223995756512m_6802146440032088951external-link" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px" target="_blank">eddy intensities and the jet stream position</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">, the effect of a </span><a href="http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~dargan/summaries/gfhpv07.html" class="m_-2414666719494712067gmail-m_-8754906266215440101m_-3415755223995756512m_6802146440032088951external-link" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px" target="_blank">hypohydrostatic rescaling</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"> on the general circulation of the atmosphere, and the role of </span><a href="http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~dargan/summaries/mpfc06.html" class="m_-2414666719494712067gmail-m_-8754906266215440101m_-3415755223995756512m_6802146440032088951external-link" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px" target="_blank">methane condensation</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"> on cloud formation on Saturn's moon Titan in addition to some of the topics listed above. </span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">I am greatly interested in applying the theoretical understanding developed from the simple and intermediate-complexity models to paleoclimate and global warming scenarios. </span><a href="http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/03/11/remote-clouds-responsible-for-climate-models-glitch-in-tropical-rainfall/" class="m_-2414666719494712067gmail-m_-8754906266215440101m_-3415755223995756512m_6802146440032088951external-link" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px" target="_blank">Recent work</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"> has used these simple theories to show a surprising source of the double ITCZ problem, the most persistent bias of climate models.</span></font></p></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><span class="">-- <br><div class="m_-2414666719494712067gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#073763" face="georgia, serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Farshid Nazari</span><font size="1">,</font><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span></font><span style="font-size:x-small;color:rgb(7,55,99);font-family:georgia,serif">Ph.D.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#073763" face="georgia, serif" size="1">ASP Postdoctoral Fellow<br></font><div><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><font color="#073763" size="1" face="georgia, serif">National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)</font></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:x-small">Tel: <a href="tel:%28303%29-497-2481" value="+13034972481" target="_blank">(303)-497-2481</a> </span><span style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:x-small">Email: </span><a href="mailto:fnazari@ucar.edu" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:x-small" target="_blank">fnazari@ucar.edu</a></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></div>
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