CLP Seminar List
for period 11 August to 22 December 2010
| Friday 13 August | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Huang, H-P | |
| Coherent structures in high-resolution ocean model simulations and implications for climate prediction | Sem 1 | |
| Wednesday 18 August | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Lambert, H (Exeter) | |
| Land-ocean surface temperature contrast and radiative forcing | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 19 August | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Haslett, J (Trinity College Dublin) | |
| Studying uncertainty in palaeo-climate reconstructions: What can we infer from pollen about climate dynamics in the younger dryas? | Sem 1 | |
| Friday 20 August | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Hargreaves, J, Annan, J (JAMSTEC) | |
| Understanding and interpreting climate model ensembles | Sem 1 | |
| Monday 23 August | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Palmer, T (ECMWF) | |
| A very grand challenge for the science of climate prediction | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Jones, C (University of Warwick) | |
| Is data assimilation relevant to climate research? | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Lenton, T (University of East Anglia) | |
| Indentification and early warning of climate tipping points | Sem 1 | |
| 15:30-16:30 | Dewar, R (The Australian National University) | |
| Maximum entropy production and climate modelling: an overview of theory and applications | Sem 1 | |
| 16:45-17:45 | Shutts, G (Met Office) | |
| Current use of stochastic methods in operational NWP/climate forecasting: are they physically justifiable | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 24 August | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Crucifix, M (Université Catholique de Louvain) | |
| Stochastic methods for understanding palaeoclimates | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Franzke, C (University of Cambridge) | |
| Systematic Strategies for Stochastic Climate Modeling | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Branstator, G (National Center for Atmospheric Research) | |
| Properties of the atmospheric response to tropical heating estimated from the fluctuation dissipation theorem | Sem 1 | |
| 15:30-16:30 | Kleeman, R (Courant Institute) | |
| The spectra of a general class of stochastic climate models | Sem 1 | |
| Wednesday 25 August | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Thompson, M, Sieber, J (Cambridge and Portsmouth Universities) | |
| Climate tipping as a noisy bifurcation: a predictive technique | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Wieczorek, S (University of Exeter) | |
| Rate-dependent tipping points: the example of the compost-bomb instability | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Semenov, M (Rothamsted Research) | |
| Delivering local-scale climate scenarios for impact assessments | Sem 1 | |
| 15:30-16:30 | Kunsch, H (ETH Zürich) | |
| Biases and uncertainty in multi-model climate projections | Sem 1 | |
| 16:45-17:45 | Cox, P (University of Exeter) | |
| Model resolution versus ensemble size: optimizing the trade-off for finite computing resources | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 26 August | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Kleidon, A (Max-Planck-Institut) | |
| Life, hierarchy, and the thermodynamic machinery of planet Earth | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Jupp, T (University of Exeter) | |
| MEP and planetary climates: insights from a two-box climate model containing atmospheric dynamics | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Gregory, J (University of Reading) | |
| Climate entropy production based on AOGCM diagnostics | Sem 1 | |
| Friday 27 August | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Kwasniok, F (Univeristy of Exeter) | |
| Empirical stochastic modelling in weather and climate science: applications from subgrid-scale parametrisation to analysis & modelling of palaeoclimatic records | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Steinheimer, M (ECMWF) | |
| Stochstic representation of model uncertainties in ECMWF's forecasting system | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Berner, J (National Center for Atmospheric Research) | |
| Model uncertainty in weather and climate models: Stochastic and multi-physics representations | Sem 1 | |
| 15:30-16:30 | Williams, P (University of Reading) | |
| The impacts of stochastic noise on climate models | Sem 1 | |
| 16:45-17:45 | Plant, R (Univeristy of Reading) | |
| Issues with convection. What is a useful framework beyond bulk models of large N, non-interacting, scale-separated, equilibrium systems | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 02 September | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Ghil, M (Ecole Normale Superieure) | |
| Towards a theory of the North Atlantic oscillation | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Garreta, V (CNRS) | |
| Recovering past dynamics from a computer model: inversion of a vegetation model for paleoclimate reconstruction | Sem 1 | |
| Friday 03 September | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Tarasov, L (Newfoundland) | |
| Inferring past ice: Bayesian calibration of a 3D glacial system model for the last deglaciation: methodology, challenges, and lessons | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Edwards , N (The Open University) | |
| Not-implausible statistical climate modelling | Sem 1 | |
| Monday 06 September | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Ghil, M (Ecole Normale Superieure) | |
| Towards a mathematical theory of climate sensitivity. | Sem 2 | |
| Tuesday 07 September | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Rougier, J (Bristol) | |
| A helpful way to think about multi-model ensembles and the actual climate | Sem 2 | |
| Wednesday 08 September | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | Lucarini, V (Reading) | |
| A statistical mechanical apporach for the computation of the climatic response to general forcing | Sem 2 | |
| Thursday 09 September | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Wilkinson, R (Nottingham) | |
| ABC and other challenges in computational statistics | Sem 2 | |
| Wednesday 15 September | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Hall, J (Newcastle) | |
| Emulation and calibration of a flood inundation model for climate risk analysis | Sem 2 | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Dijkstra, H (Utrecht) | |
| Physics of the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation | Sem 2 | |
| Thursday 16 September | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | Tribbia, J (NCAR) | |
| How to break quasi-geostrophic turbulence | Sem 2 | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Belcher, S (University of Reading) | |
| How we build a parameterisation scheme: illustrated by Langmuir turbulence in the ocean mixed layer | Sem 2 | |
| Friday 17 September | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | Fournier, A (UCAR) | |
| Development of wavelet methodology for weather Data Assimilation | Sem 2 | |
| Tuesday 21 September | ||
| 09:30-10:15 | Stephenson, D (University of Exeter) | |
| Outstanding problems in probabilistic prediction of climate | Satellite | |
| 10:15-11:00 | Collins, M (University of Exeter) | |
| Model inadequacies and physical processes | Satellite | |
| 14:00-14:45 | Chandler, R (University College London) | |
| Methodologies for probabilistic uncertainty assessment | Satellite | |
| 14:45-15:30 | Sexton, D (Met Office) | |
| Probabilistic methodology used for UKCIP | Satellite | |
| 16:00-16:15 | Michel, G (Willis Re) | |
| Probabilistic use of climate catastrophe multi-models | Satellite | |
| Wednesday 22 September | ||
| 09:30-10:15 | Dempster, A (Harvard University) | |
| Non-probabilistic frameworks | Satellite | |
| 10:15-11:00 | Rougier, J (University of Bristol) | |
| Probabilistic frameworks | Satellite | |
| Thursday 30 September | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Katz, R (UCAR) | |
| Sir Gilbert Walker and a connection between El Nino and statistics | Sem 1 | |
| Wednesday 06 October | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Tokmakian, R (Naval Postgraduate School) | |
| Understanding uncertainty in climate model components | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 07 October | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Guillas, S (UCL) | |
| Bayesian calibration of the Thermosphere-Ionosphere Electrodynamics General Circulation Model (TIE-GCM) | Sem 1 | |
| Monday 11 October | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Challenor, P (National Oceanography Centre, UK) | |
| How to design a climate ensemble | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 12 October | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Gottwald, G (Sydney) | |
| A variance constraining Kalman filter for data assimilation | Sem 1 | |
| Wednesday 13 October | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Cullen, M (Met Office) | |
| Using simple models and rigorous mathematics to improve operational atmosphere and ocean modelling | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 14 October | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Gottwald, G (Sydney) | |
| Stochastic model reduction on manifolds | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Zhou, Y (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) | |
| A perspective on turbulent flows: cascade dynamics in rotating flows | Sem 1 | |
| Friday 15 October | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Frank, J (CWI Amsterdam) | |
| Predictability of the 2nd kind: numerical discretisations and their climatic response | Sem 1 | |
| Monday 18 October | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Reich, S (Potsdam) | |
| Predicting the unpredictable: combining models and data | Sem 1 | |
| 12:00-13:00 | Read, P (Oxford) | |
| Regimes of global atmospheric circulation | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 19 October | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Dewar, W (Florida State) | |
| Inviscid dissipation of balanced flow by topography | Sem 1 | |
| 11:15-12:15 | Beaulieu, C (Princeton) | |
| Likely temporal abrupt shifts in the carbon cycle | Sem 1 | |
| Wednesday 20 October | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Penland, C (NOAA) | |
| Stochastic diagnosis of climate dynamics, with application to tropical SSTs | Sem 1 | |
| 12:00-13:00 | Kwasniok, F (Exeter) | |
| Predicting extremes in the midlatitudinal atmospheric circulation using regime-dependent statistical modelling | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Shin, S (Potsdam) | |
| Applications of Hamiltonian particle-mesh methods for atmospheric modelling | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 21 October | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Hunt, J (University College London) | |
| Changes in weather and climate systems, predictable and unpredictable | Sem 1 | |
| 12:00-13:00 | Ashwin, P (Exeter) | |
| Rate-dependent tipping points - a comparative approach | Sem 1 | |
| Monday 25 October | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Davey, M (University College London) | |
| Aspects of long-range forecasting and ENSO | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 26 October | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Allen, M (Oxford) | |
| Multi-model ensembles | Sem 2 | |
| Wednesday 27 October | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Thompson, L (Washington) | |
| Estimates of the ocean heat budget in the Gulf stream | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 09 November | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Thuburn, J (Exeter) | |
| Energy and enstrophy cascades in numerical models | Sem 1 | |
| Friday 12 November | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Livina, V (East Anglia) | |
| Methods of time series analysis for climate tipping points | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 16 November | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Bates, B, Chandler, R (CMAR/UCL) | |
| Climate change Down Under: challenges, opportunities and uncertainty | Sem 1 | |
| Wednesday 17 November | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Dempster, A (Harvard) | |
| New thinking about statistical information and its applications to climate prediction | CMS Mtg Rm 5 | |
| Monday 22 November | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Niven, R (New South Wales) | |
| Derivation of a local form of the Maximum Entropy Production principle | Sem 2 | |
| Tuesday 23 November | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Parnell, A (University College Dublin) | |
| Fast Bayesian palaeoclimate reconstruction | Sem 1 | |
| Wednesday 24 November | ||
| 14:05-14:30 | Palmer, T (Oxford) | |
| Estimating and reducing uncertainty in climate prediction: key findings from the Newton Institute Programme | Satellite | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Leake, J (The Sunday Times) | |
| Panel discussion - The scientific uncertainties and their implications | Satellite | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Morton, O (The Economist) | |
| Panel discussion - Policy in the face of uncertainty | Satellite | |
| Thursday 25 November | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Lucarini, V (Reading) | |
| Entropy production and efficiencyin the climate system | Sem 1 | |
| Friday 26 November | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Niven, R (New South Wales) | |
| Application of the Maximum Entropy Production principle to turbulent fluid mechanics and planetary systems | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 02 December | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Huque, M (Nottingham) | |
| A system-biology investigation of heat shock protein regulated gene networks: mathematical models, predictions and laboratory experiments | Sem 1 | |
| Monday 06 December | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Horsburgh, K, Huthnance, J (National Oceanographic Centre) | |
| Overview of Newton Institute "climate" programme | Sem 1 | |
| 15:30-16:30 | Collins, M (Exeter) | |
| Synthesising Model Projections of Future Climate Change | Sem 1 | |
| 17:00-18:00 | Palmer, T (Oxford) | |
| After Climategate and Cancun; What Next for Climate Science? | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 07 December | ||
| 09:30-10:30 | Crucifix, M (Universite Catholique de Louvain) | |
| Climate modelling at Quaternary time scales | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:40 | Rougier, J (Bristol) | |
| A statistical emulator for HadCM3 | Sem 1 | |
| 11:40-12:30 | Goldstein, M (Durham) | |
| Assessing climate uncertainty: models, meaning and methods | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Stephenson, D (Exeter) | |
| Grand Challenges in Probabilistic Climate Prediction | Sem 1 | |
| 16:30-17:00 | Chandler, R (UCL) | |
| Rewarding strength, discounting weakness: combining information from multiple climate simulators | Sem 1 | |
| 17:00-17:30 | Challenor, P (National Oceanography Centre) | |
| Adventures in Emulation | Sem 1 | |
| Wednesday 08 December | ||
| 09:30-10:30 | Cox, P (Exeter) | |
| New Newtonian Alchemy: Turning Noise into Signal | Sem 1 | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Namachchivaya, NS (Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) | |
| Homogenized Hybrid Particle Filters in Multi-scale Environments | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:00 | Warren, R (East Anglia) | |
| The Community Integrated Assessment System, CIAS, and its user interface CLIMASCOPE | Sem 1 | |
| 12:00-12:30 | Aldrin, M (Norwegian Computing Centre) | |
| Bayesian estimation of the climate sensitivity based on a simple climate model fitted to global temperature observations | Sem 1 | |
| 15:30-16:10 | Williams, P (Reading) | |
| The importance of numerical time-stepping errors | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 09 December | ||
| 09:30-10:00 | Hritonenko, N (Prairie View A&M) | |
| Engaging with policymakers: modelling of the optimal investments into environmental maintenance, abatement, and adaptation for long-term climate policies | Sem 1 | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Street, R (Oxford) | |
| Lessons learned from striving to support decision and policy making: the challenges when providing climate information | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:00 | Edwards, M (CAFOD) | |
| Is it going to get wetter or drier in Uganda? | Sem 1 | |
| 12:00-12:30 | Thornton, P (Copenhagen) | |
| What does the agricultural research-for-development community need from climate and weather data? | Sem 1 | |
| 15:30-16:10 | Whitaker, D (Knowledge Transfer Network) | |
| Engagement with business- What are the barriers to use of climate data, where should future research be taken? | Sem 1 | |
| 16:10-17:00 | Held, H (PIK) | |
| Climate investments optimized under uncertainty | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 14 December | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Garreta, V (Trinity College Dublin) | |
| Inference for models with implicit likelihood: a statistical review of data-assimilation and model calibration | Sem 2 | |
| Wednesday 15 December | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Haque, M (Nottingham) | |
| A system-biology investigation of heat shock protein regulated gene networks: mathematical models, predictions and laboratory experiments | Sem 2 | |
| Tuesday 21 December | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Gneiting, T (Heidelberg) | |
| Statistical processing for ensembles of numerical weather prediction model | Sem 1 | |
| Other Seminars |
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Seminars in the University National and International Scientific Research Meetings |