Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the University has instruction to cancel all in-person events through the Spring semester to adhere to city and state orders limiting public gatherings. Events still running must now take place Online— listed events will include a link in which one may access the Online webspace:

To view Dr. Maroon’s talk, enter her Online chatroom via Microsoft Teams— it will open at 2:00 pm on Friday, May 8, 2020.

Tales from the Decadal Climate Prediction Trenches

Dr. Elizabeth Maroon
Assistant Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences

“Climate prediction on interannual to decadal timescales is of great interest to stakeholders given the relevance of this timescale to decision-making. Our decadal prediction systems, however, are still primarily a research enterprise. In this colloquium, recent efforts to predict climate on interannual to decadal timescales using the most recent initialized hindcasts produced with the Community Earth System Model will be discussed. Two prediction case studies will be highlighted, one a prediction success (improvement of Sahel precipitation prediction), the other a failure (the inability to predict the 2015 subpolar North Atlantic cold blob).”

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