TITLE:

STORMS AND THEIR EFFECTS ON CLIMATE AS REPRESENTED IN NUMERICAL MODELS

DATE:

Friday, Oct 19th, 2012

TIME:

3:30 PM

LOCATION:

GMCS 214

SPEAKER:

Guang Zhang.
Senior Research Meteorologist.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
University of California at San Diego.

ABSTRACT:

Storms have tremendous impact on society. They produce freshwater needed and at
the same time they can be very destructive. Flash flood, tornadoes, and
hurricanes are examples associated with storms. From atmospheric energy point
of view, latent heat release from storms is a major energy source driving the
atmospheric circulation. Thus numerical models for weather prediction and global
climate must consider it in order to achieve realistic predictions. In this
talk, I will discuss how numerical models treat atmospheric convection
associated with storms. Examples will be given of the effects of storms on
climate simulation.

HOST:

Dr. Sam Shen.

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