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ClimaTea Schedule (Fall 2010)
ClimaTea is held every Tuesday from 3-4pm in the HUCE Seminar room, which is on the 3rd floor of the Geo Museum in the Harvard Center for the Environment.

July
Tuesday, July 27th, 3pm (Special Meeting)
Presenter: Yochanan Kushnir
Title: Levant hydroclimate variability throughout the holocene- A role for the Atlantic
Article: Knight, et al. (2006) 'Climate impacts of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation'
Article: Seager, et al. (2007) 'Blueprints for Medieval hydroclimate'
   
September
Tuesday, September 7th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Article: Wu, et al. (2010) 'Temporary acceleration of the hydrological cycle in response to a CO2 rampdown'
Presenter: Nathan Arnold
   
Tuesday, September 14th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Speaker:Edward Boyle
Title: Looking Closer at Iron's Marine Geochemistry to Better Evaluate its Role in Climate Change
Article: Jickells, et al. (2005) 'Global Iron Connections Between Desert Dust, Ocean Biogeochemistry, and Climate'
   
Tuesday, September 21st, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Article: Skinner et al. (2010) Ventilation of the Deep Southern Ocean and Deglacial CO2 Rise
Presenter: Sierra Petersen
   
Tuesday, September 28th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Speaker: Brian Rose
Title: Multiple equilibria of sea ice and climate
Reading: Rose, et al. (submitted) Climate determinism revisited: multiple equilibria in a complex climate model
   
Cancelled, date TBD
Speaker: Ben Kirtman
Title: Impact of Semi-Stochastic Westerly Wind Bursts in CCSM
Reading: No recommended background reading
   
October
Tuesday, October 5th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Speaker: Christian Schoof
Title: Glacier Surges
Reading: A.C. Fowler (1987) "A Theory of Glacier Surges"
Reading: D.R. MacAyeal (1993) "Binge/Purge Oscillations of the Laurentide Ice Sheet as a Cause of the North Atlantic's Heinrich Events"
   
Friday, October 8th 3pm (Special Meeting)
Speaker: Yongyun Hu
Title: Melting the hard Snowball Earth: GCM simulations
Reading: No recommended background readings
   
Tuesday, October 12th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Speaker:Mark Pagani
Title: CO2 trends and the Onset of Antarctic Glaciation
Reading: Pearson Foster and Wade (2009) "Atmospheric carbon dioxide through the Eocene-Oligocene climate transition"
Reading: Liu et al (2009) "Global cooling during the Eocene-Oligocene Climate Transition"
   
Cancelled, See Special Climate Seminar - Stefan Rahmstorf
   
Tuesday, October 26th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Speaker: Abby Swann
Title: Mid latitude afforestation shifts general circulation and tropical precipitation
Article: Bonan, (2008) "Forests and Climate Change: Forcings, Feedbacks, and the Climate Benefits of Forests"
   
November
Tuesday, November 2nd, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Title: A Test for the Presence of Covariance Between Time-uncertain Series of Data With Application to a Collection of Proxy Records Showing Millennial Variability
Article: Haam and Huybers, (2010) "A test for the presenece of covariance between time-uncertain series of data with application to the Dongge Cave speleothem and atmospheric radiocarbon records"
Presenter:Eddie Haam
   
Tuesday, November 9th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Speaker: Timothy DelSole
Title: Is Global Warming Accelerating?
Reading: DelSole, et al. (2010) 'A Significant Component of Unforced Multidecadal Variability in the Recent Acceleration of Global Warming'
   
Tuesday, November 16th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Speaker: John Taylor
Title: Turbulence and the Spring Phytoplankton Bloom
Article: Taylor Talk Abstract
   
Tuesday, November 23rd, 3pm
No Meeting - Thanksgiving
   
Tuesday, November 30th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Speaker: Paul O' Gorman
Title: A new effective static stability for moist eddy circulations, with climate-change applications
Article: O'Gorman, 2010 'The effective static stability experienced by eddies in a moist atmosphere'
   
   
   

     
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Questions?
Email the organizers:
Ethan Butler
Sierra Petersen