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ClimaTea Schedule (Fall 2011)
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.
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September
Tuesday, September 13th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Mary Moore
Article: Okumura et al. (2011), 'A Proposed Mechanism for the Asymmetric Duration of El Nino and La Nina'
   
Tuesday, September 20th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Tom Laakso
Introduction: Archer (2011), 'Rapid carbon sequestration at the termination of the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum'
Primary: Bowen and Zachos (2011), 'Rapid carbon sequestration at the termination of the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum'
More Background: Pagani et al. (2011), 'An Ancient Carbon Mystery'
   
Tuesday, September 27th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Cristi Proistosescu
Article: Armour et al. (2011), 'The reversibility of sea ice loss in a state-of-the-art climate model'
   
*Special Seminar* Thursday, September 29th, *12pm*, *Geological Museum rm 418*
Speaker: Erdal Yigit
Title: Parameterizing gravity waves from the lower atmosphere to the thermosphere in general circulation models
Background Reading: Yigit and Medvedev et al. (2010), 'Internal gravity waves in the thermosphere during low and high solar activity: Simulation study'
   
October
Tuesday, October 4th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Nathan Arnold
Article: Muller and O'Gorman (2011), 'An energetic perspective on the regional response of precipitation to climate change'
   
Tuesday, October 11th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Elizabeth Barnes (UW)
Title:'Meridional constraints on midlatitude jet shifts'
Background Reading: Kidston and Gerber (2010), 'Intermodel variability of the poleward shift of the austral jet stream in the CMIP3 integrations linked to biases in 20th century climatology'
   
Tuesday, October 18th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Ethan Butler
Article(a): Barriopedro et al. (2011) , 'The Hot Summer of 2010: Redrawing the Temperature Record Map of Europe'
Article(b): Dole et al. (2011) , 'Was there a basis for anticipating the 2010 Russian heat wave?'
   
Tuesday, October 25th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Martin Tingley
Title:'Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Bayesian Data Analysis* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)'
Supplemental Notes: Bayesian data analysis in practice: Three simple examples
   
November
Tuesday, November 1st, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Sierra Petersen
Article: Barker et al. (2011) , '800,000 Years of Abrupt Climate Variability'
   
Tuesday, November 8th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Dan Rowlands (Oxford University)
Title:'Quantifying uncertainty in predictions of 21st century warming'
Background Reading:Rowlands et al. (pre-print, see-email for link)
   
Tuesday, November 15th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Zan Stine
Article: Solomon et al. (2010) , 'Contributions of Stratospheric Water Vapor to Decadal Changes in the Rate of Global Warming'
   
Tuesday, November 22nd, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
NO CLIMATEA TODAY
   
Tuesday, November 29th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Joe Fitzgerald
Article: Kaspi & Schneider (2011) , 'Winter cold of eastern continental boundaries induced by warm ocean water'
News and Views Summary: Boos (2011) , 'Cold Winters from Warm Oceans'
   
December
Tuesday, December 6th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Karen McKinnon
Article: Min et al. (2011) , 'Human contribution to more-intense precipitation extremes'
   
Tuesday, December 13th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
NO CLIMATEA TODAY
   
   
   

     
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Questions?
Email the organizers:
Andy Rhines
Alexander Robel