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<div class="wide-content-host" style="margin:0px">Hi all,</div>
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<div>Here is announcement that we have a MET seminar at 3:30 PM on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. The speaker will be Dr. Hill of Lamount-Doherty Earth Observatory of the Columbia University. See the attached flyer for more details.</div>
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<div><b>Speaker</b>: Dr. Spencer Hill, Lamount-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University.</div>
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<div><b>Title</b>: Advancing Understanding of Monsoons: Two Distinct but Complementary Approaches</div>
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<div><b>Abstract</b>: Monsoons play a starring role in Earth�s general circulation and in the livelihoods of billions of people. Accurate predictions of monsoon rainfall variations from intraseasonal to centennial timescales, both natural and human-induced,
would be of tremendous value but have proved vexing. This isn�t shocking, given that our conceptual understanding of some of the most basic characteristics of monsoonal overturning circulations generally and of real-world systems such as the Indian monsoon
remains incomplete. In this talk, I describe two approaches, one highly theoretical and the other highly empirical, I have employed in recent years to attack this knowledge gap. The first combines analytical theory and simulations in idealized climate models
to develop a new theory for the extent of the ascending and descending branches of zonally averaged monsoonal circulations (i.e. the solsticial Hadley cell). The second uses gauge-based rainfall data in India to delineate the mechanisms linking interannual
variability in Indian summer monsoon rainfall within sub-regions of the subcontinent.</div>
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<div><b>Time</b>: 3:30 PM, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021</div>
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<div><b>Zoom Link</b>: <a href="https://fsu.zoom.us/j/92495409312?pwd=VklzSHdVY0JOUzdDODg4TzJGbnhkdz09" id="LPlnk">https://fsu.zoom.us/j/92495409312?pwd=VklzSHdVY0JOUzdDODg4TzJGbnhkdz09</a></div>
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<div>It is noted that the pre-seminar session, "Meeting the Speaker," will start at 3:00 PM with the same zoom link. A post-seminar student only session will starts immediately after seminar. Look forward to seeing you then.</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
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<div>Zhaohua</div>
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