Talks

Academic conferences & departmental seminars

(* = Invited, ^ = Best Student Presentation Award)

^Diamond, Michael, H. Director, R. Eastman, A. Possner, & R. Wood (January 2020). Substantial cloud brightening from shipping in subtropical stratocumulus clouds. 100th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society. Boston, Massachusetts. Video and slides.

*Diamond, Michael (December 2019). What can the inadvertent cloud modifications from global shipping tell us about the prospects for deliberate Marine Cloud Brightening? Marine Cloud Brightening Scientific and Technical Research Meeting. San Francisco, California. Slides.

Diamond, Michael, H. Director, R. Eastman, A. Possner, & R. Wood (December 2019). Substantial cloud brightening from shipping in subtropical stratocumulus clouds. American Geophysical Union Centennial Fall Meeting. San Francisco, California. Slides.

*Diamond, Michael, P. Blossey, R. Wood, M. Wyant, A. Ackerman, A. Fridlind, H. Lee, P. Saide, H. Gordon, G. Feingold, J. Kazil, & T. Yamaguchi (June 2019). From fires in Africa to cloud transitions in the southeast Atlantic: Biomass burning aerosol effects on the stratocumulus-to-cumulus transition. Goddard Institute for Space Studies Special Seminar. NASA GISS, New York. Slides.

Diamond, Michael, H. Director, A. Possner, & R. Wood (June 2019). International shipping in the southeast Atlantic: A ’natural’ experiment in Marine Cloud Brightening. UW Center for Environmental Politics’ Annual Duck Family Graduate Student Retreat. Whidbey Island, Washington.

*Diamond, Michael, H. Director, A. Possner, & R. Wood (May 2019). Substantial cloud brightening from shipping observed in south Atlantic stratocumulus using a universal kriging method. Stanford University Climate Dynamics Seminar. Remote lecture at Stanford University. Slides.

Diamond, Michael, H. Director, A. Possner, & R. Wood (May 2019). Substantial cloud brightening from shipping observed in south Atlantic stratocumulus using a universal kriging method. ATM S 523 Seminar in Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry. Seattle, Washington.

Diamond, Michael, P. Blossey, R. Wood, M. Wyant, P. Saide, H. Gordon, A. Ackerman, A. Fridlind, & J. Kazil (May 2019). Large eddy simulation of the stratocumulus to cumulus transition preceding the August 18, 2017, ORACLES-CLARIFY joint flight. ORACLES Science Team Meeting 2019. Miami, Florida. Slides.

Diamond, Michael, H. Director, A. Possner, & R. Wood (April 2019). Substantial cloud brightening from shipping observed in south Atlantic stratocumulus using a universal kriging method. Aerosols, Clouds, Precipitation and Climate (ACPC) Workshop. Nanjing, China. Slides.

Diamond, Michael, S. Freitag, A. Heikkila, S. Howell, J. Griswold, P. Saide, & R. Wood (2018). Impact of cloud-top entrainment timescale on smoke-cloud interaction over the southeast Atlantic. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2018. Vienna, Austria. Slides.

Diamond, Michael, R. Wood, & the ORACLES Team (2018). (COGS): Nd or not Nd? To what extent are biomass burning aerosols modulating cloud microphysics in the southeast Atlantic? Atmospheric & Climate Dynamics Seminar, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle. Slides.

^Diamond, Michael, R. Wood, & the ORACLES Team (2017). Entrainment and mixing of biomass burning aerosol into the Namibian stratocumulus cloud deck. 97th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society. Seattle, Washington. Video. Slides.

Diamond, Michael, R. Wood, & S. LeBlanc (2016). Biomass Burning Aerosol Detection in Near Real-Time: How can MODIS and SEVIRI be used to aid mission planning in the field? XVII International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation. Manchester, United Kingdom. Slides.