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DATE: Tuesday April 14</div>
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Dr. Funing Li</a></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Allison A. Wing, Ph.D.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Werner A. and Shirley B. Baum Associate Professor</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Florida State University</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="mailto:awing@fsu.edu" data-outlook-id="aac6a549-f515-4987-9116-3a0eec475ee5" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">awing@fsu.edu</a></p>
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<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Eoas-seminar] MET Seminar - Tuesday April 14 - 3 PM - Dr. Funing Li (MIT)<br>
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Please join us for a Meteorology seminar on <b>Tuesday April 14</b> at 3 PM, given by
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Dr. Funing Li</a> from MIT. He will speak about “<i> Physics, Projections, and Origins of Midlatitude Weather Extremes”
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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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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" data-outlook-id="014cf6da-d605-4c64-84a8-4f838417449a">awing@fsu.edu</a>) if you are interested in meeting with him. </div>
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DATE: Tuesday April 14</div>
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TIME: 3-4 PM, please join early for refreshments</div>
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LOCATION: EOA 1044 </div>
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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%7C07343f8a75eb4e68279b08de9a1d619a%7Ca36450ebdb0642a78d1b026719f701e3%7C0%7C0%7C639117648142524139%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=WrQuU6igzZT%2BsZp1SfYvyagaKrFoKmEtDzz%2FDNoD6Ew%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://sites.google.com/view/funingli/home" originalsrc="https://sites.google.com/view/funingli/home" data-outlook-id="d6840a51-26ed-4044-9fae-144b8be0f2bd">
Dr. Funing Li</a></div>
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We look forward to seeing you there!</div>
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Title: Physics, Projections, and Origins of Midlatitude Weather Extremes</div>
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Abstract: 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.</div>
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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 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 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 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 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 weather activities beyond Earth and its current and future climate.</div>
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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" data-outlook-id="d7d14f09-d526-406a-a3c0-0226efe2d644">awing@fsu.edu</a></div>
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