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<font face="Arial">Please join us for a Meteorology seminar on <b>Tuesday April 14</b> at 3 PM, given by <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fview%2Ffuningli%2Fhome&data=05%7C02%7Ceoas-seminar%40lists.fsu.edu%7Ca5982f1ebdce475a9c0e08de963c2192%7Ca36450ebdb0642a78d1b026719f701e3%7C0%7C0%7C639113382149378836%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=JA2%2Bu2dIXOONIdrgum52SIh3qu4uQv22KFP%2B7yj4%2B2A%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://sites.google.com/view/funingli/home" originalsrc="https://sites.google.com/view/funingli/home">Dr.
Funing Li</a> from MIT. He will speak about “<span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><i> Physics, Projections, and Origins of Midlatitude Weather Extremes</i></span><i>”</i><i> </i>(abstract below).</font></div>
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<font face="Arial">Dr. Li will present over Zoom but we will gather together in 1044 to participate in the seminar. A Zoom link is available for those with a medical excuse or approved work off-campus. Please contact Allison Wing (<a href="mailto:awing@fsu.edu" class="ms-outlook-linkify" title="mailto:awing@fsu.edu" data-ogsc="rgb(0, 134, 240)" data-outlook-id="3b775de3-847f-4320-b67e-8836571d6069">awing@fsu.edu</a>)
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<font face="Arial">Dr. Li is also available for individual/small group Zoom meetings before his seminar from 11-2:30. He is a postdoc at MIT with broad interests in extreme weather. His research combines physics and multi-complexity models to probe the formation
of extreme weather events and their evolution in a warming climate. Please contact Allison Wing (<a href="mailto:awing@fsu.edu">awing@fsu.edu</a>) if you are interested in meeting with him. </font></div>
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<font face="Arial">DATE: Tuesday April 14</font></div>
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<font face="Arial">TIME: 3-4 PM, please join early for refreshments</font></div>
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<font face="Arial">LOCATION: EOA 1044 </font></div>
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<font face="Arial">SPEAKER: <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fview%2Ffuningli%2Fhome&data=05%7C02%7Ceoas-seminar%40lists.fsu.edu%7Ca5982f1ebdce475a9c0e08de963c2192%7Ca36450ebdb0642a78d1b026719f701e3%7C0%7C0%7C639113382149412502%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=exXCU8ZrR9KhV3mFNTaDcftP%2FJTuQqpQFKz6EEDdRuE%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://sites.google.com/view/funingli/home" originalsrc="https://sites.google.com/view/funingli/home">Dr.
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<div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial">Abstract: <span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2;">Heating and convection are fundamental atmospheric processes responsible for
a wide range of high-impact weather hazards, including heatwaves, wildfires, droughts, floods, thunderstorms, and tornadoes. Yet fundamental questions regarding why they form and how they evolve remain challenging, particularly in the midlatitudes, where conventional
theories such as the quasi-equilibrium assumption often fail and multifaceted interactions among land, ocean, atmosphere, and human activity add further complexity.</span></font></div>
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<div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2;">This talk focuses on near-surface moist heat and severe convective storms, which frequently co-occur across midlatitude
land regions due to the stored-energy </span><span style="font-family: Arial; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2;">nature of midlatitude convection. I will present an inversion-constraint theory showing that their maximum intensities are tightly
constrained by reexisting low-level thermal inversions, which helps better interpret their projected intensification as the
</span><span style="font-family: Arial; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2;">planet warms. Specifically, I will show that emerging future hotspots of moist heat and convection extremes over northeastern Asia and eastern North America arise from amplified
warming over upstream ighlands, which strengthens downstream inversions. This </span>
<span style="font-family: Arial; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2;">result highlights orographically elevated heating as a key geographic control of extreme weather hanges, and more broadly, it points to a fundamental role of geographic factors
in determining the origins of extreme weather patterns on Earth. I will show an</span><span style="font-family: Arial; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2;"> example of how large-scale surface roughness, an overlooked geographic driver, contributes
to forming the world’s tornado capital in the U.S. (a.k.a. Tornado Alley). I will close by discussing implications for severe weather risk solution and for understanding</span><span style="font-family: Arial; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2;">
weather activities beyond Earth and its current and future climate.</span></div>
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<div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Allison Wing, Ph.D.<br>
Werner A. and Shirley B. Baum Professor<br>
Associate Professor, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science<br>
Florida State University<br>
<a href="mailto:awing@fsu.edu">awing@fsu.edu</a></div>
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