Date
September 27, 2017
Time
3:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Location
112 Walker Building
Description
Benjamin Johnson, UCAR, will give the lecture "The Curious Life of a Snowflake."
Following the life of a snowflake, this talk will provide an illustrated journey of the creation, growth, transformation of a snowflake and, perhaps, a similar arc of a scientist who has studied them for a couple of decades. I'll discuss the physics behind snowflakes, and the impacts of various snow physical and thermodynamic properties on radiative transfer, remote sensing observations, retrieval methods, and data assimilation methods. I'll also speculate on the future of remote sensing, and how new satellite technologies are disrupting the way we learn and work -- for the better.
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Cost
Free
Contact
Eugene Clothiaux - eec3@psu.edu