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GLERL What's New: 1999
Great Lakes Environmental Research
Laboratory
Distinguished Scientist Seminar Series
Sergei Rodionov
NRC Senior Research Associate
NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab
Ann Arbor, Michigan
"Global and Regional Climate Interaction: From a General Concept to
Practical Applications"
Location: Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
4840 S. State Rd.
Ann Arbor, MI 48108-9719
Date: Monday, September 20th, 1999
Time: 10:00 am
Room: 105 (Main Conference Room)
World Weather is a concept that describes an interdependency between weather and climate anomalies in different parts of the world separated by large distances. This interdependency, commonly known as a teleconnection, was first suggested at the turn of the century, but for a long time remained just an idea of little practical use. Recent improvements in the quality and availability of data, global monitoring of climatic processes, advances in statistical techniques, and more powerful computing resources have made teleconnections one of the central research topics in modern climatology. Four examples demonstrate that interaction between global and regional climates is key to understanding and predicting variability in environmental parameters at the regional level. These examples are: fisheries in the North Atlantic, water level fluctuations in large lakes, winter precipitation over the Great Lakes basin, and Great Lakes ice cover forecasting.
For further information, please contact:
Steve Brandt
NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
4840 S. State Rd.
Ann Arbor, MI 48108-9719
734-741-2244
stephen.b.brandt@noaa.gov
Last updated: September 19, 2002 mbl