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Monday, April 22, 2024
12:00 AM - 11:45 PM
Earth Day
610 will have an Earth Science Spirit Day on Earth Day. Wear your favorite Earth shirt and/or wear green and blue.
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Monday, April 22, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Special Climate & Radiation Laboratory Seminar
High-Resolution Simulations of Marine Cloud Brightening in Decoupled Marine Boundary Layers
Johannes Kainz, PhD candidate, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich
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Monday, April 22, 2024
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
ESSIC Seminar Series
Reconciling Observation and Model Scales: Locally Relevant Soil Moisture for Water and Climate Breakthroughs
Prof. Noemi Vergopolan, Princeton University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Program
NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamic Laboratory
Rice University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
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