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Seminar talk: Prevailing Surface Wind Direction during Air-Sea Heat Exchange

Name of speaker: Fumiaki Ogawa. Affiliation: Geophysical Institute. For abstract, see link.

Workshop on Climate Prediction in the Atlantic-Arctic sector

Dear colleagues,

We are excited to be holding a Workshop on Climate Prediction in the Atlantic-Arctic sector that is jointly organized by the Bjerknes CPU (Climate Prediction Unit) and EU Modelling Cluster (involving projects Blue-Action, APPLICATE, PRIMAVERA, CRESCENDO, EUCP, among others).  Although the workshop is closed for on-site participation, you are most welcome to follow the presentations via live streaming as of tomorrow morning:

http://webcast.imr.no/replay/webcastShow.html?key=S2acRsnarRiHCMj

Kind regards,

Bjerknes CPU team

https://bcpu.w.uib.no/

Seminar talk: Translational Climate Science in Alaska: From Climate Impacts to Adaptation

Name of speaker: Jeremy Littell, Affiliation: US Geological Survey / Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center

Seminar: No evidence for globally coherent warm and cold periods over the pre-industrial Common Era

Name of speaker: Juan Jose Gómez-Navarro. Affiliation: University of Murcia. Please find abstract via link. 

Seminar: Can large-scale solar and wind farms create a significant climate change? A model experiment in the Sahara

Name of speaker: Eugenia Kalnay. Affiliation: University of Maryland. Please find abstract and bio via link. 

Seminar: The Wind-Driven Ocean Circulation: A Forced Dynamical System

Name of speaker: Michael Ghil. Affiliation: Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, and University of California at Los Angeles, California, USA. Please find abstract via link. 

NERSC seminar: Explore dynamical information with Pseudo-orbit Data Assimilation

Speaker: HAILIANG DU. Affiliation: Durham University

Seminar: The Sahara greening during the African humid period: an overview of its regional and global impacts

Name of speaker: Francesco S.R. Pausata, affiliation: University of Quebec in Montreal

Disputas: Evangeline Sessford

MSc. Evangeline Sessford disputerer for ph.d.-graden:

Avhandlingens tittel:

”Hydrography in the Nordic Seas during Dansgaard-Oeschger events 8-5”

Opponent: 
    Professor, ph.d. Mary Elliot
Paleoclimats Paleoenvironnements Bioindicateurs, LPG
Université de Nantes, Frankrike

Opponent: 
Forsker, ph.d. Jeroen Groeneveld
MARUM - Zentrum für Marine Umweltwissenschaften, Universität Bremen, Tyskland
                
Øvrig medlem i komiteen:
    Professor, ph.d. Haflidi Haflidason
    Institutt for geovitenskap, Universitetet i Bergen
        
Leder av disputasen:
Førsteamanuensis Helga «Kikki» Flesche Kleiven
Institutt for geovitenskap, Universitetet i Bergen

Adgang for interesserte tilhørere.
Velkommen til lokalet i god tid før disputasen!
 

Disputas: Marie Pontoppidan

Monday, June 17 at 10:15 Marie Pontoppidan will give her final lecture for the defense for her PhD degree.

Topic: "Dynamical downscaling – impact on storm tracks and precipitation»

Seminar talk: Inferring Ocean Subsurface from Satellite Images using machine learning

Name:of speaker: Anastase Charantonis, affiliation: École nationale supérieure d'informatique pour l'industrie et l'entreprise

Seminar talk: The process and application of remote sensing data about atmospheric and ocean environment

Name of speaker: Zhang Bingxian. Affiliation: Beijing Institute of Space Mechanics & Electricity of China . Please find abstract via link.

Disputas: Balamuralli Rajasakaren

MSc. Balamuralli Rajasakaren disputerer for ph.d.-graden den 26. juni 2019 kl. 10.15 i Undervisningsrom 4020, BCCR. (Geofysisk institutt).

Avhandlingens tittel:
”Carbon Fluxes related to Ventilation and Remineralization in the Nordic Seas and Arctic Ocean”

Opponent:
Forsker, ph.d. Kumiko Azetsu-Scott
Fisheries and Oceans, Canada

Opponent:
Professor, ph.d. Douglas W.R. Wallace
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Øvrig medlem i komiteen:
Professor, ph.d. Ilker Fer
Geofysisk institutt, Universitetet i Bergen

Leder av disputasen:
Instituttleder, professor Nils Gunnar Kvamstø
Geofysisk institutt, Universitetet i Bergen

Adgang for interesserte tilhørere.

Velkommen til lokalet i god tid før disputasen!

Disputas: Lander Rodriguez Crespo

MSc. Lander Rodriguez Crespo disputerer for ph.d.-graden den 27. juni 2019 kl. 10.15 i Undervisningsrom 4020, Jahnebakken 5, BCCR. (Geofysisk institutt).

Avhandlingens tittel: ”Ocean-atmosphere interactions in the tropical Atlantic seasonal cycle and multidecadal variability of ENSO”

Opponent:
Forsker, ph.d. Julien Jouanno
Institut de Recherche pour le développement (IRD), Frankrike

Opponent:
Førsteamanuensis, ph.d. Gaelle de Coetlogon
Sorbonne Université, Paris, Frankrike

Øvrig medlem i komiteen:
Professor, dr.scient Asgeir Sorteberg
Geofysisk institutt, Universitetet i Bergen

Leder av disputasen:
Instituttleder, professor Nils Gunnar Kvamstø
Geofysisk institutt, Universitetet i Bergen

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Seminar: Tracking Water in the Atmosphere and Terrestrial Systems; Challenging Assumptions about Hydrologic Processes

Name of speaker: Francina Dominguez. Affiliation: University of Illinois. Please find abstract via link.

Disputas: Astrid Fremme

Msc. Astrid Kristine Fremme disputerer for ph.d.-graden den 28. juni 2019 kl. 10.15 i Undervisningsrom 4020, Jahnebakken 5, BCCR. (Geofysisk institutt).

Avhandlingens tittel: ”Moisture sources for East Asian monsoon precipitation”

Opponent:
Førsteamanuensis, ph.d. Francina Dominguez
University of Illinois, USA

Opponent:
Professor, ph.d. Deliang Chen
University of Gothenburg, Sverige

Øvrig medlem i komiteen:
Professor, dr.scient. Jan Asle Olseth
Geofysisk institutt, Universitetet i Bergen

Leder av disputasen:
Instituttleder, professor Nils Gunnar Kvamstø
Geofysisk institutt, Universitetet i Bergen

Adgang for interesserte tilhørere.

Velkommen til lokalet i god tid før disputasen!