Specialist Presentations

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2024

How big is a cloud? How long does the weather last?Passcode:  bNa#Y40z, AGU Distinguished lecture, Columbia Univeristy, March 7, 2024

Scaling Biohorizons and scaling geochronologies... and the nature of geological time, Life and planet 2024, Thursday Jul 11, 2024.

2023

The Future of climate modelling: Weather Details, Macroweather stochastics – or both?, Atmospheric, Oceanic Sciences dept., McGill University, Jan. 16, 2023

2022

Multifractals, Intermittency, Spectra and Climate Variability Across Scales, European Geosciences Union Campfire organized by the Nonlinear Processes division, 18.1.22.

2021

Budyko-Sellers 2.0: The Fractional Energy Balance Equation (FEBE), European Geosciences Union, 29 April, American Geophysical Union, 16 Dec.

The McGill Physical Society, McGill Student Physics Society Colloquium: November 26, 2021, The 2021 Physics Nobel: The climate with a geocomplexity update

CVAS seminar series, March 22, 2021: Climate Variability Across scales and the future of climate modelling

2020:

European Geosciences Union conference series on Perspectives on Climate Sciences: From historical developments to research frontiers 21 September, 2020: Scaling, fractals and the search for high level laws in weather, macroweather and the climate

Centre for Complex Systems Studies. Youtube version. (28 September, 2020: Scaling, complexity, high level laws in weather, macroweather and the climate

2019:

The Richardson medal Lecture, April 8, 2018, European Geosciences Union, Vienna

Reuniting Richardson's strands

The video of the Caltech version of the
Richardson lecture, May 8, 2019

2018:

Issues in the Theoretical Foundations of Climate Science Workshop, University of Toronto, Nov. 15, 2018:

What is Climate

2016:

Presentation (with audio) given in Rhodes, Greece, July 5th, 2016:

Harnessing butterflies for improved monthly, seasonal, and interannual forecasts

2015:

RainGain conference, June 9, 2015 (slides and streaming video in block 3, starting at 1:19 minutes)

Space-Time models of Weather and Macroweather Precipitation,

2014:

Presentation at the workshop on Multifractal Analysis: From Theory to Applications and Back, Banff, Alberta,  Feb, 25, 2014:

Rocks, clouds, anisotropic multifractals and the unity of geophysics, streaming video, pdf

Scale invariance of fluctuations, the return time of climate events and anthropogenic warming, CNRS, May 12, Paris Sud, May 13, IPSL, May 15, 2014

Using scaling to predict anthropogenic and natural climate change, Ouranos, Montreal, Oct. 8, 2014

2013:

Presented as part of a UK book tour at University of Reading, 15 April, 2013:

Emergent Atmospheric laws: why the weather and climate are not what you expect

Keynote presentation at the 6th workshop on Fractals and Dynamical systems in the geosciences, Oct. 1, 2013:

On the unity of rocks and clouds

Presentation at the Hydrofractals 2013 conference, Kos, Greece, Oct. 18:

Emergent space-time scaling laws in precipitation: Weather, macroweather and climate regimes

Three presentations at the Isaac Newton Institute (Cambridge, UK):

The weather: emergent laws and multifractal cascades (Oct. 23, 2013): pdf, streaming video

Extreme events and the multifractal butterfly effect (Oct. 31, 2013): pdf, streaming video

Scaling, macroweather and the climate (Nov. 6, 2013): pdf, streaming video

 

Presentation to the GEC3 at McGill (Nov. 29, 2013):

Scaling fluctuation analysis and statistical hypothesis testing of Anthropogenic warming