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18 Mar (CLIM) Aboagye-Okyere, African Aerosols

Mar 18, 2026, 1:30 - 2:30 PM

Mar 19

Town Hall for employees working in academic units

Mar 19, 2026, 1:00 - 2:30 PM

Hub Ballroom, Fairfax Campus

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19 Mar (GEOL), The CycloAstro Project

Mar 19, 2026, 4:30 - 5:30 PM

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1 Apr (CLIM) Booth, Extratropical Cyclones & Heatwave

Apr 1, 2026, 1:30 - 2:30 PM

Jimmy Booth, The City College of New York (CCNY)

What do Extratropical Cyclones have to do with heatwaves in NYC?

Wed, 1 Apr, 1:30pm

Innovation Hall 131 and via Zoom (for link, email bklinger@gmu.edu)

Host: Austin Reed

 

This talk will cover the physics of extratropical cyclones and the hazards they generate in the Northeast US. First, I will discuss two idealized numerical modeling studies, one focused on a single storm in a weather model and another that examines the time-averaged behavior of extratropical cyclone tracks in an aquaplanet global climate model. Second, I will discuss connections between extratropical cyclone tracks and hazards such as coastal flooding and extreme rainfall. Third, I will talk about if and how ETCs relates to heatwaves in NYC.

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