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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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