Seminar Dynamics of Weather and Climate

Organized by Frank Selten (as from October 2013); previously by Wim Verkley and Aarnout van Delden

Information and application: Frank Selten (selten@knmi.nl) (website at knmi) or Aarnout van Delden (a.j.vandelden@uu.nl)

Sessions at KNMI:

Coming sessions

17 December 2013 KNMI, Bleekerzaal, 09:30 Ad Stoffelen (KNMI): Tropical convection and air-sea interaction.

Previous sessions at KNMI

12 November 2013 Peter Siegmund (KNMI) The IPCC AR5 report.

15 October 2013 Frank Selten (KNMI) The fate of future European summers - the key lies in the soil.

15 May 2012 Aarnout van Delden "PV-theta" view of the zonal mean state of the atmosphere.(see pdf and see pdf)

17 April 2012 Sarah Kew Intercomparison of midlatitude storm diagnostics.

13 March 2012 Wim Verkley Climate and Weather Prediction.

14 February 2012 Frank Selten (KNMI) Super modelling by combining imperfect models.

13 December 2011 Rein Haarsma (KNMI) The thermal relation as a diagnostic instrument for the analysis and detection of climate change.

15 November 2011 Geert lenderink (KNMI) Scaling of hourly precipitation extremes.

25 October 2011 Pau Rabassa (Universiteit Groningen) Extreme value laws in dynamical systems under physical observables.

20 September 2011. Rosmarie de Wit (IMAU) What causes the subtropical jet? A model study. (see pdf)

14 June 2011. Geert-Jan van den Oldenborgh (KNMI) Determination and attribution of daily precipitation extremes

17 May 2011. Wim Verkley (KNMI) Balanced dynamics in the tropics

19 April 2011. Hylke de Vries (KNMI) Evolution of stratosphere-troposphere interactions?

15 March 2011. Chris Weijenborg (KNMI/IMAU) Blocking

18 January 2011. Rein Haarsma (KNMI) Rossby wave propagation from the tropics to the extra-tropics

14 December 2010. Maarten Ambaum (Reading University) Significance tests in climate science (see J.Clim., 15 nov. 2010, p.5927)

16 November 2010. Peter Siegmund (KNMI) Widening of the tropical belt in a changing climate

12 October 2010. Roel Stappers (KNMI) Extending the validity of the tangent linear approach

14 September 2010. Geert Groen (KNMI) Improving potential wind for extreme wind statistics (see SynDynMet-14sep2010)

15 June 2010. Laslo Evers (KNMI) Infrasound

11 May 2010 Jur Vogelzang (KNMI) The quality of high quality scatterometer wind wind measurements 

13 April 2010 Hylke de Vries (KNMI) Cold winters and anomalous blocking 

16 March 2010 Aarnout van Delden (IMAU) Influence of the water cycle on the global average surface temperature (see Radiative-convective model)

16 February 2010. Sarah Kew (KNMI) Role of upper-level PV anomalies in polar low development and their significance for forecasting

12 January 2010. WimVerkley (KNMI) Maximum entropy principle and parametrization

8 December 2009 Sibbo van der Veen (KNMI) Interaction between mesoscale dynamics, microphysics and atmospheric electricity

10 November 2009 Han van Dop (IMAU) On Filter width, turbulent length scales and grid size in Large-Eddy Simulation of the stable boundary layer

6 October 2009 Sybren Drijfhout (KNMI) Hadley circulation and Held-Hou model

8 September 2009 Steef Böing (Delft) LES models of deep convection

16 June 2009 Rob Groenland (KNMI) Dynamics of severe thunderstorms over the Netherlands

19 May 2009 Daan Crommelin (CWI-Amsterdam) A stochastic data driven approach to parametrization

14 April 2009 Pier Siebesma (KNMI/Delft) Critical phenomena in (tropical) precipitating convection

17 March 2009 Yvonne Hinssen (IMAU) Seasonal cycle of zonal average potential vorticity

20 January 2009 Frank Selten (KNMI) Preferred regime transition routes in a baroclinic model

16 December 2008 Wim Verkley (KNMI) A physical basis for the stochastic parametrization of convection.

18 November 2008 Peter Siegmund (KNMI) Dynamical amplification of Polar warming

21 October 2008 Rein Haarsma (KNMI) Identifying the response to climate change in a GCM with the help of a linear steady state model

16 September 2008 Roel Stappers (KNMI) CAPE-singular vectors in HIRLAM

15 July 2008 Rob Groenland (KNMI) Conceptual models

10 June 2008 Sander Tijm (KNMI) Limited-area models at KNMI: HIRLAM and HARMONIE

20 May 2008 Aarnout van Delden (IMAU) Radiative-dynamical adjustment of the atmosphere movie (file of 7 Mb)

22 April 2008 Frank Selten (KNMI) More frequent easterly winds in the Netherlands because of drought in southern Europe

18 March 2008 Gerard van der Schrier (KNMI) Increasing the north Atlantic subtropical jet and abrupt climate change

19 February 2008 Theo Gerkema (NIOZ) Non-traditional approach in geophysical fluid dynamics

15 January 2008 Leo Maas (NIOZ/IMAU) Geostrophy and deviations from geostrophy: a laboratory experimental perspective

18 December 2007 Pui-Kei Fung (KNMI) On the relationship between the North Atlantic Oscillation and the Circumpolar Waveguide Pattern

20 November 2007 Wim Verkley (KNMI) The statistical mechanical approach to turbulent flows

16 October 2007 Yvonne Hinssen (IMAU) Stratosphere-troposphere connection investigated with the invertibility principle for potential vorticity

18 September 2007 Henk van de Brink (KNMI) A mechanism for super storms

26 June 2007 Gert-Jan Marseille (KNMI) Sensitivity observing system continued

22 May 2007 Frank Selten (KNMI) Changes to the Hadley circulation due to greenhouse gas concentration increase

24 April 2007 Gert-Jan Marseille (KNMI) Sensitivity observing system

20 March 2007 Jan-Otto Hooghoudt (KNMI) Stratosphere-troposphere connection investigated with singular vectors

23 January 2007 Henk van de Brink (KNMI) Super-storms

19 December 2006 Bart van den Hurk (KNMI/IMAU) Biotic pump

21 November 2006 Peter Siegmund (KNMI) Response of the hydrological cycle to global warming

Previous sessions at IMAU

7 September 2006 Viola van Leeuwen (IMAU) Isentropic model of the polar winter stratospheric vortex

28 September 2006 Niels Zweers (IMAU) Brewer-Dobson circulation

19 October 2006 Yvonne Hinssen (IMAU) Climatologies and simulations of the middle-atmosphere

15 March 2007 Aarnout van Delden (IMAU) Global atmospheric radiative-dynamical adjustment