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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">These talks are usually
scheduled for the first Monday of each month. The first talk
normally starts at 11:00AM. Each talk is typically 12 minutes
long (similar to many professional meetings), with 8 minutes for
questions.</font><br>
<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">These talks will be
presented via Zoom, with the following connection information:</font><br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"> </font><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://fsu.zoom.us/j/98491660566?pwd=NzBxNzN4LzdsbSs4R3B6RzliOGhhdz09" moz-do-not-send="true">https://fsu.zoom.us/j/98491660566?pwd=NzBxNzN4LzdsbSs4R3B6RzliOGhhdz09</a><br>
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Meeting ID: 984 9166 0566<br>
<p> Passcode: 478314</p>
<p>Oct. 3rd:</p>
<p>Kyra Britton: <span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Application
of High-Resolution Winter Seasonal Climate Forecasts for
Streamflow Prediction in Central Florida</span> </p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;
background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">Description: Current global
climate models typically run at a resolution of 100 km, which is
too coarse to adequately resolve the coastlines and watersheds
of Florida. Previous researchers created a reforecast of five
environmental variables for a period of 22 years by dynamically
downscaling a global model, thus giving more accurate regional
data for temperature, evaporation, surface and root level soil
moisture, and surface temperature. In this project, I attempt to
define the relationship between these five reforecasted
variables and the streamflow of several watersheds in Central
Florida using statistical techniques, with the end goal of
creating a streamflow forecast that will assist water utility
managers in decision making</span></p>
<h4><span style="font-weight: normal;">Xiaobiao Xu: </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Importance of vertical resolution
in an isopycnic ocean model</span></h4>
<div class="">Description: <span style="font-family: "Times New
Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;" class="">In contrast to
the large volume of studies focused on the importance of the
horizontal resolution in oceanic general circulation models, the
importance of vertical resolution has been largely overlooked.
This study documents the sensitivity of modeled large-scale
circulation to its vertical resolution used in an isopycnic
model, at two horizontal resolutions of 1/12º and 1/50º,
respectively. The results show that (1) at 1/12º, the
large-scale circulation is not very sensitive to its vertical
resolution and the number of layers required to obtain a
reliable large-scale circulation in isopycnic model is less than
that in a level model. (2) when the horizontal resolution is
increased from eddying (1/12º) to submesocale eddy enabling
(1/50º), the sensitivity of model solution to vertical
resolution varies and the vertical resolution needs to be
increased accordingly.</span></div>
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<p>Mark Bourassa (and Jackie May): Importance of Resolution in
Current-Related Air-Sea Coupling</p>
<p>The Navy's coupled ocean/atmosphere model is used to show that
model resolution impacts the sign of the vorticity of surface
winds. Physics contributing to the model's boundary-layer
vorticity is examined to interpret this result. The coupling
between currents and wind stress will be reviewed as part of this
explanation, then extended to include vorticity. Modeling results
are used to show the impacts of the related changes in atmospheric
boundary-layer processes. <br>
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<p>Nov. 7th</p>
<p>Joanna Rodgers: TBA</p>
<p>Tony Freveletti: TBA<font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri,
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<p>TBA:TBA<br>
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<p>Dec. 5th</p>
<p>Carly Narotsky: TBA</p>
<p>TBA: TBA</p>
<p>Shawn Smith: The MarineFlux project<br>
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