| February |
| Speaker: Doug Nychka (NCAR)
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| Title: Statistical models for spatial structure in climate simulations and data
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| Background reading:
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Nychka, et al. (NCAR Technical Note, 2013),
'A multi-resolution Gaussian process model for the analysis of large spatial data sets'
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| No ClimaTea today due to Lorenz workshop
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| Speaker:
Jung-Eun Lee (Brown)
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| Title: Plants, water, and climate
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| Background reading:
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Boyce and Lee (Proc. R. Soc. B, 2010),
'An exceptional role for flowering plant physiology in the expansion of tropical rainforests and biodiversity'
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Lee, et al. (Geophysical Research Letters, 2012),
'Reduction of tropical land region precipitation variability via transpiration'
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| Presenter: Chris Horvat
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| Article:
Notz (The Cryosphere, 2014),
'Sea-ice extent and its trend provide limited metrics of model performance'
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| March |
| Presenter: Andy Rhines
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| Article:
Barnes et al. (Geophysical Research Letters, 2014),
'Exploring recent trends in Northern Hemisphere blocking'
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| Additional reading:
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Wallace et al. (Science, 2010),
'Global Warming and Winter Weather'
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Dot Earth Perspectives,
'Global Warming, Winter Weather and the Olympics -- Leading Climate Scientists Weigh In '
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| Presenter: Joe Fitzgerald
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| Article:
Tung and Zhou (Geophysical Research Letters, 2013),
'Using data to attribute episodes of warming and cooling in instrumental records'
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Supplementary material
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| No ClimaTea today: spring break
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| Speaker:
Tiffany Shaw (Columbia)
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| Title: TBA
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| April |
| Speaker:
Raffaele Ferrari (MIT)
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| Title: TBA
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| Speaker:
Aaron Donohoe (MIT)
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| Title: The relationship between the location of the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) and atmospheric heat transport across the equator
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| Background reading:
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Frierson et al. (Nature Geoscience, 2013),
'Contribution of ocean overturning circulation to tropical rainfall peak in the Northern Hemisphere'
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| Speaker:
Jake Gebbie (WHOI)
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| Title: TBA
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| Presenter: Lauren Kuntz
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| Article: TBA
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| Speaker:
Axel Timmermann (U Hawaii)
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| Title: TBA
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| Presenter: Marena Lin
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| Article: TBA
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