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ClimaTea Schedule (Fall 2007)
Tuesdays 3-4pm in the Geological Museum, Room 418

August
Special Seminar: Tuesday, August 14th, 3pm (Hoffman Labs, 4th Floor Faculty Lounge)
Speaker: Jeffrey Shaman
Title: 'Dynamics of the ENSO-Indian Monsoon Teleconnection' Abstract
Background reading: Shaman and Tziperman (2007)
   
September
Tuesday, September 25th, 3pm
Article: Lawrence et al. (2006) 'Evolution of the Eastern Tropical Pacific Through Plio-Pleistocene Glaciation'
Presenter: John Higgins
   
October
Tuesday, October 2nd, 3pm
Speaker: Tim Herbert
Title: "Synchronous variations in tropical ocean temperatures over the past 2.7 million years: Evidence of a dominant role for CO2 in Glacial-Interglacial Climate Change"
Background reading: Lawrence et al. (2006)
   
Tuesday, October 9th, 3pm
Article: Rahmstorf et al. (2007) 'A Semi-Empirical Approach to Projecting Future Sea-Level Rise'
Rahmstorf (2007) Response to Comments on "A Semi-Empirical Approach to Projecting Future Sea-Level Rise"
Presenter: TBD
   
Tuesday, October 16th, 3pm
Article: Matsumoto (2007) 'Radiocarbon-based circulation age of the world oceans'
Peacock and Maltrud (2006) 'Transit-Time Distributions in a Global Ocean Model'
Presenter: Jake Gebbie
   
Tuesday, October 23rd, 3pm
Speaker: Rob DeConto
Title: Bi-polar Glaciation in the Early Cenozoic?
Background reading: DeConto and Pollard (2003)
Coxall et al. (2005)
   
Tuesday, October 30th, 3pm
Speaker: Mark Siddall
Title: Can we use existing sea-level estimates and ice-core temperature records from the last glacial cycle to constrain sea-level rise over the next century? Abstract
Background reading: Rahmstorf et al. (2007)
Rahmstorf (2007) Response to Comments
   
November
Tuesday, November 6th, 3pm
Speaker: Wojciech Grabowski
Title: Numerical Modeling of Multiscale Atmospheric Flows: From Cloud Microscale to Climate Abstract
   
Tuesday, November 13th, 3pm
Article: Partin et al. (2007) 'Millennial-scale trends in west Pacific warm pool hydrology since the Last Glacial Maximum'
Presenter: Kate Dennis
   
Tuesday, November 20th, 3pm
Article: Higgins and Schrag (2003) 'Aftermath of a snowball Earth'
Presenter: Paul Hoffman
   
Tuesday, November 27th, 3pm
Article: Torn and Harte (2006) 'Missing feedbacks, asymmetric uncertainties, and the underestimation of future warming'
Roe and Baker (2007) 'Why is Climate Sensitivity So Unpredictable?'
Weitzman (2007; unpublished) - Supplementary 'On Modeling and Interpreting the Economics of Catastrophic Climate Change'
Presenter: Peter Huybers
   
December
Tuesday, December 4th, 3pm
Article: Winton (2006) 'Does the Arctic sea ice have a tipping point?'
Presenter: Ian Eisenman
   
Tuesday, December 11th, 3pm
NO MEETING: AGU
   
Tuesday, December 18th, 3pm
Speaker: Mike Winton
Title: Is The Arctic Sea Ice Nearing a Tipping Point?
Background reading: Winton (2006)
   
   
   

     
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Email the organizers:
Kate Dennis
Martin Tingley