FALL 2004 David Raymond (New Mexico Tech) - What Have we Learned From EPIC2001? David Nolan (U Miami) - Mechanics and Efficiency of Tropical Cyclone Intensification Lee E. Branscome (Climatological Consulting Corporation) - Risk and Opportunity in Private Sector Meteorology Brian Mapes (CIRES/NOAA) - Mesoscale wind divergence associated with tropical convection Bill Hooke (AMS) - Policy considerations for the atmospheric and related sciences Yan Feng (University of Michigan) - Modeling of Nitrate and Ammonium Aerosols in a Global Aerosol-Chemistry Model Nikki Prive (MIT) - What determines the location of the monsoon? SPRING 2005 Rob Korty (MIT) - The Evolution of Winter Stratospheric Temperatures in the Presence of a Weak Surface Temperature Gradient Leo Donner (GFDL) - Convective Mass Fluxes, Heating, and Transport from the Perspective of their Parameterization in General Circulation Models Gidon Eshel (University of Chicago) - Empirical Day-to-Day Predictability of Northern Hemisphere PV Eugenia Kalnay (University of Maryland) - Coupled Bred Vectors for ENSO Ensemble Forecasting and Data Assimilation Ray Pierrehumbert (University of Chicago) - The Hadley Cell Revisited David Vallee (NWS) - Aspects of Mesoscale Banding In A Fast Moving Snowstorm of February 6-7, 2003 John Foster (MIT Haystack) - Haystack Observatory Observations of Space Weather Storm Fronts over the Americas Irene Moroz (Oxford University) - A simplified model of the Martian atmosphere Isidoro Orlanski (GFDL) - A new look at the Pacific storm track variability: Sensitivity to tropical SST and to upstream seeding Manjula Canagaratna (Aerodyne Research, Inc.) - Chemical and Microphysical Characterization of Aerosols via Aerosol Mass Spectrometry Brian Soden (U Miami) - Climate sensitivity and the atmospheric hydrological cycle FALL 2005 David Schultz (University of Oklahoma/NOAA) - Contraction Rate and its Relationship to Frontogenesis, the Lyapunov Exponent, Fluid Trapping, and Airstream Boundaries Ed Olenic (NOAA) - Recent developments in climate forecasting and new products Huug van den Dool (NOAA) - Consolidation of multiple seasonal forecast tools & the role of long term trends in seasonal forecasts Natalie Mahowald (NCAR) - Mineral Aerosols. Climate, and Biogeochemistry Kerry Emanuel (MIT) - What does current scientific research have to say about the present and future risks associated with hurricanes? Renyi Zhang (Texas A&M) - Atmospheric Aerosols: Formation, Aging, and Interaction with Cloud-Climate William Lau (NASA Goddard) - Aerosol-Water Cycle Interaction: A New Challenge in Monsoon Climate Research Zhiming Kuang (Harvard) - Convectively coupled equatorial waves Dudley Shallcross (University of Bristol) - Gas-phase kinetic and mechanistic studies of DMS oxidation and the ozonolysis of alkenes using a novel discharge-flow system coupled with a UV-PES spectrometer Dudley Shallcross (University of Bristol) - The London DAPPLE (Dispersion and Penetration of Pollutants into the Local Environment) project Pablo Zurita-Gotor (GFDL) - A forced-dissipative look at baroclinic adjustment: Why it is so hard to change the slope of the extratropical isentropes? SPRING 2006 Arnico Panday (MIT) - The Diurnal Cycle and Ventilation of Air Pollution in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal Louis Uccellini (NCEP) - NCEP Update: Review of Progress in Operational Weather, Climate and Ocean Forecasts Larisa Goncharenko (MIT Haystack Observatory) - Variations in lower thermospheric dynamics at midlatitudes during geomagnetically quiet and geomagnetically disturbed periods Rob Griffin (University of New Hampshire) - Chemical and Optical Characterization of Summer Atmospheric Aerosol in and near the Gulf of Maine Daniel Keyser (SUNY Albany) - Cool-Season Regime Transition and its Impact on Northeast Precipitation Betty Pun (Atmospheric and Environmental Research) - Air Quality Simulations: From Case Studies to Integrated Modeling FALL 2006 Jim Hansen (MIT) - The joy of covariance Alexander Khain (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) - Aerosol effects on cloud microphysics and dynamics (with application to tropical cyclones) Lorraine Remer (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) - Characterizing global aerosol from the MODIS satelite sensor Jessie Cherry (University of Alaska - Fairbanks) - Acceleration of the Arctic Water Cycle: evidence from the Lena Basin, Siberia Arthur Hou (NASA Goddard) - Precipitation measurement from space: Why do we need it? Chris Sherratt (MIT Libraries) - Reference databases & bibliography tools for ocean & atmospheric science Gregory Cushman (U. Kansas) - The Colonial Politics of Hurricane Prediction, 1870-1900: From Havana to Manila to Galveston Amy Frappier (Boston College) - Advances in high-resolution paleotempestology: Seasonal tropical cyclone activity records from tropical caves and temperate forests Dave Thompson (Colorado State University) - Understanding recent stratospheric climate change Alan Betts (Atmospheric Research) - Analyzing the land-cloud-atmosphere interaction Matthew Peters (Harvard) - Relationships between the strength, vertical structure and width of ITCZs Sukyoung Lee (Penn State) - The Relationship Between the Time-Mean Flow and the Low-Frequency Flow Variability Chien Wang (MIT) - Anthropogenic Aerosols and Tropical Precipitation Gang Chen (Princeton) - Mechanisms of the Latitudinal Shift of Surface Westerlies With Surface Friction and the Implication for the Recent Trend in the Southern Hemisphere Surface Westerlies Athanasios Nenes (Georgia Tech) - How can in-situ observations constrain and improve modeling of aerosol indirect effects? SPRING 2007 Annica Ekman (Stockholm University) - The Effect of Aerosol Composition and Concentration on the Development and Anvil Properties of a Continental Deep Convective Cloud Valerio Lucarini (University of Camerino, Italy) - Intercomparison of IPCC Climate Models Phil Rasch - Geo-Engineering Climate Change with Sulfate Aerosol Michela Biasutti (Lamont-Doherty/Columbia) - Climate Change in the Sahel Wojciech Grabowski (NCAR) - Optical properties of shallow convective clouds: observations and modeling Masa Sugiyama (MIT) - Nonlinear moisture modes in the tropics Sara Seager (MIT) - Extrasolar Planet Atmospheres Daniel Kirshbaum (Yale) - The triggering of orographic rainbands by small-scale terrain Peng Xian (Columbia) - Abrupt Seasonal Migration of the ITCZ into the Summer Hemisphere Paul O'Gorman (Cal Tech) - Towards a theory of how much it rains: the hydrological cycle over a wide range of climates Elke Weber (Columbia University) - Better Decision Making Under Climate Uncertainty: Lessons from Psychology Tapio Schneider (Cal Tech) - Jet Formation and Superrotation on Gas Giant Planets Tom Knutson (GFDL) - Simulation of changes in seasonal Atlantic hurricane activity Michael Ring (MIT) - NA FALL 2007 Elke Hodson (MIT) - Seasonal variability of CFC 11, 12, 113, 1,1,1 trichloroethane, and methane concentrations in a municipal solid waste landfill David Nolan (Univ. of Miami) - Environmental controls of tropical cyclone formation as seen in high resolution simulations Olivier Pauluis (New York University) - Available potential energy in a moist atmosphere Edwin Gerber (Columbia University) - Stratosphere-Troposphere Coupling:The Importance of Stationary Planetary Waves Bill Boos (MIT) - Abrupt onset of monsoon circulations by wind-evaporation feedback Alfonso Saiz-Lopez (NASA JPL) - Iodine: The missing halogen of polar tropospheric chemistry Nili Harnik (Tel Aviv University) - A buoyancy-vorticity wave interaction approach to stratified shear flow Olivia Martius (ETH Zurich) - Breaking synoptic-scale Rossby waves in the tropopause region Judah Cohen (MIT / AER) - Advances in Seasonal Forecasting: Siberian snow cover more important than ENSO? Larissa Back (Univ. of Washington / MIT) - Towards an improved understanding of climatological deep convection patterns over the tropical oceans Chris Bretherton (Univ. of Washington) - Have we learned anything about climate feedbacks in the last twenty years? Anatoli Bogdan (University of Helsinki) - A new factor enhancing the greenhouse effect? Robert Korty (Texas A&M) - A climatology of the tropospheric thermal stratification using saturation potential vorticity Geoffrey Vallis (Princeton University) - GFD and climate: experiments with a coupled atmosphere-ocean model Peter Simmonds (University of Bristol) - From Simple Beginnings to Long-Term Observations of Atmospheric Trace Gases: 'The good, the bad and the sometimes perplexing' SPRING 2008 Matt Alvarado (MIT) - Formation of ozone and growth of aerosols in young smoke plumes from biomass burning Jeffrey Pierce (Carnegie Mellon) - Ultrafine atmospheric aerosol, clouds and climate Vikram Khade (MIT) - Techniques for accounting and reduction of model error in ensemble-based filters Fuqing Zhang (Texas A&M) - Predictability of Severe Weather at the Mesoscales Brian Farrell (Harvard) - A New Perspective on Baroclinic Adjustment Greg Holland (NCAR) - Hurricane Response to Climate Fluctuations and Trends Seok-woo Son (Columbia) - Southern Hemisphere Westerlies in the Future Climate: Interpretation with a Simple AGCM and Results of Chemistry-Climate Models Paul O'Gorman (MIT) - Precipitation and Extratropical Storms in Changed Climates Adam Showman (Univ. of Arizona) - Jets on Giant Planets Robert McGraw (Brookhaven National Laboratory) - Kinetic Potential and Barrier Crossing: A New Model for Drizzle Formation Dargan Frierson (Univ. of Washington) - Studies of the General Circulation of the Atmosphere with a Simplified Moist GCM Xue Xiao (MIT) - Optimal Estimation of the Surface Fluxes of Chloromethanes using a 3-D Chemical Transport Model Isla Simpson (Imperial College) - Solar influence on tropospheric circulation via the stratosphere David Lorenz (Univ. of Wisconsin) - The Poleward Shift of the Jet Stream and the Summertime Drying and Warming of the Mid-Latitude Continents under Global Warming Sharan Majumdar (Univ. of Miami) - Deconstructing ensemble-based adaptive sampling methods for medium-range weather forecasts William Stockwell (Howard University) - Closing the Loop Between Biological and Natural Emissions,Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Caspar Ammann (NCAR) - Climate of the last millennium: where we are and where we are going in reconstructing it FALL 2008 Chris Davis (NCAR) - Little Whirls Making Bigger Whirls: Mesoscale Vortices from Moist Convection Ka-Kit Tung (University of Washington) - On Earth's puzzling response to the variable sun Olga Sergienko (Portland State University) - Ice sheet modeling 101: concepts, approaches, problems Jon Moskaitis (MIT) - Predictability and probabilistic prediction of tropical cyclone intensity Noboru Nakamura (Univ. of Chicago) - Quantifying large-scale eddies in the atmosphere: theory and observation David Romps (Harvard) - The atmospheric heat engine: insights from the entropy budget Jessica Neu (UC Irvine) - Cloud processes in global chemistry models David Randall (CSU) - What is the Madden-Julian Oscillation? Mike Wong (UC Berkeley) - Red Spot Jr. and Jupiter's Global Upheaval Aviva Braun (Penn St) - A Comparison between South Atlantic and Tasman Sea Subtropical Storms Dan Gombos (MIT) - Ensemble Regression: Using ensemble model output for atmospheric dynamics and forecasting SPRING 2009 Cegeon Chan (MIT) - Stratospheric Influences on the Troposphere David Thompson (CSU) - Understanding 20th century global-mean surface temperature variability Sai Ravela (MIT) - The Planet in a Bottle Project: From Least Squares to Most Information Paul Kushner (Univ. of Toronto) - Stratospheric influence on the tropospheric response to climate perturbations Judah Cohen (AER) - AO impacts on winter climate Bo Yang (MIT) - Asymmetric Structures and Tropical Cyclone Intensity George Bryan (NCAR) - The maximum intensity of numerically simulated tropical cyclones Jonathon Wright (Columbia) - Tropical deep convection and upper tropospheric water vapor variability: A view from satellites Catherine Rio (Meteo-France/CNRS) - Parameterization of boundary layer thermals and of their impact on the diurnal cycle of deep convection and clouds in a large-scale model Jeffery Hollingsworth (NASA Ames Research Center) - Mars' Weather and Climate: Large-Scale Topographic Effects Sarah Kang (Princeton) - The response of tropical precipitation to extratropical thermal forcing Sanjay Limaye (University of Wisconsin - Madison) - Venus Atmospheric Ciruclation Noelle Eckley Selin (MIT) - Global Impacts of Air Pollution: Mercury, Ozone, and Particulate Matter Yong-Sang Choi (MIT) - Presence of supercooled clouds in the very cold atmosphere Kyle Swanson (Univ. of Wisconsin - Milwaukee) - Objective identification of climate signals? Drew Shindell (NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies) - Climate Sensitivity to Forcing Location (and Implications for Warming Mitigation) Doug Gillham (Mississippi State University) - Winter Weather Forecasting: Utilizing Forecast Soundings to Predict Precipitation Type and Snow to Liquid Ratios Yang Zhang (MIT) - Baroclinic eddy equilibration under specified seasonal forcing Matt Rigby (MIT) - NA FALL 2009