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ClimaTea Schedule (Fall 2006)
Tuesdays 3-4pm in the Center for Climate and Atmosphere (directions)

September
Tuesday, September 26th, 3pm
Article: Cullen et al (2006) 'Kilimanjaro Glaciers: Recent areal extent from satellite data and new interpretation of observed 20th century retreat rates'
Presenter: Dorian Abbot
   
October
Special Seminar (At the Center for the Environment conference room)
Friday, October 6th, 2:30pm
Speaker: George Kiladis
Title: 'Scale Interactions in Convectively-Coupled Tropical Waves' Abstract
Background reading: Lin et al (2006) Tropical Intraseasonal Variability in 14 IPCC AR4 Climate Models. Part I: Convective Signals
   
Tuesday, October 10th, 3pm
Article: Overpack et al (2006) 'Paleoclimatic Evidence for Future Ice-Sheet Instability and Rapid Sea-Level Rise'
Supplementary: Alley et al (2005) 'Ice-Sheet and Sea-Level Changes'
Presenter: Ian Eisenman
   
Tuesday, October 17th, 3pm
Article 1: Landsea et al (2006) 'Can We Detect Trends in Extreme Tropical Cyclones?'
Article 2: Michaels et al (2006) 'Sea-surface temperatures and tropical cyclones in the Atlantic basin'
Introduction 1: Emanuel (2005) 'Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 years'
Introduction 2: Emanuel (2006) 'Hurricanes: Tempests in a greenhouse'
Presenter: David Thompson
   
Tuesday, October 24th, 3pm
Article 1: Emanuel (unpublished) Critique of "Can we Detect Tropical Cyclones?"
Article 2: Emanuel (2006) Comments on "Sea-surface temperatures and tropical cyclones in the Atlantic basin"
Suplimentary Karry Emanuel "Supplementary Methods" and articles from last week discussion
Presenter: Nikolas Bakas
   
Tuesday, October 31st, 3pm
Speaker: Kerry Emanuel
Title: 'Is Global Warming Affecting Hurricanes?' Abstract
Background reading:
#1: Emanuel (2005) 'Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 years'
#2: Emanuel, K. Supplementary Methods
#3: Landsea et al Can we Detect Tropical Cyclones?
#4: Emanuel, K. Comments on Sea-surface temperatures and tropical cyclones in the Atlantic basin
   
November
Tuesday, November 7th, 3pm
Article Johannessen et al (2005) Recent Ice Sheet Growth in the Interior of Greenland
Suplimentary Murray (2006) Greenland's ice on the scales
Presenter: Roiy Sayag
   
Tuesday, November 14th, 3pm
Speaker: Mark Fahnestock
Title: 'Rapid changes at the margins of the Greenland Ice Sheet' Abstract
Background reading: Progressive increase in ice loss from Greenland (Thomas, 2006)
   
Tuesday, November 21st, 3pm
Article Crutzen 2006 Albedo enhancement by stratospheric sulfar injections: A contribution to resolve a policy dilemma?
Presenter: John Higgins
   
Tuesday, November 28th, 3pm
Article Walter et al (2006) Methane bubbling from Siberian thaw lakes as a positive feedback to climate warming
Presenter: Itay Halevy
   
December
Tuesday, December 5th, 3pm
Speaker: Hezi Gildor
Title: The Red Sea during the Last Glacial Maximum: implication on sea level reconstruction Abstract
Background reading:
#1 Siddall et al (2004) Understending the red sea response to sea level
#2 Siddall et al (2003) Sea-level fluctuation during the last glacial cycle
#3 Rohling et al (1998) Magnitudes of sea-level lowstands of the past 500,000 years
   
Tuesday, December 12, 3pm
AGU. No seminar
   
Tuesday, December 19th, 3pm
Article: Goswami et al (2006) Increasing Trend of Extreme Rain Events Over India in a Warming Enviornment
Presenter: Joe Bernstein
   
   

     
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Questions?
Email the organizers:
Itay Halevy
Joe Bernstein
Roiy Sayag