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<div>Here is reminder 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>Speaker: Dr. Spencer Hill, Lamount-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University.</div>
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<div>Title: Advancing Understanding of Monsoons: Two Distinct but Complementary Approaches</div>
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<div>Abstract: 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>Time: 3:30 PM, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021</div>
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<div>Zoom Link: <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 3:15 PM, instead of 3:00 PM as originally scheduled, with the same zoom link. This change will reduce the overlapping time of "Meeting the Speaker" with the seminar to be given
by one of our new faculty candidates. A post-seminar student-only session will start immediately after seminar. Look forward to seeing you then.</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
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Zhaohua<br>
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