| September |
| Presenter: Ethan Butler
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| Article: Mueller and Seneviratne (2012), 'Hot days induced by precipitation deficits at the global scale'
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| Presenter: Tom Laakso
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| Article: Dickson et al. (2012), 'Seawater oxygenation during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum'
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| Background Reading: Lyons and Reinhard (2012), 'Deoxygenation in warming oceans - Looking back to the future'
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| Additional Background: Keeling et al. (2010), 'Ocean Deoxygenation in a Warming World' (focus on pgs. 206-209)
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| Presenter: Cristi Proistosescu
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| Article: Rowlands
et al.(2012), 'Broad range of 2050 warming from an observationally constrained large climate model ensemble'
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| Background Reading: Held (2012), 'Constraints on the high end'
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| October |
| Moderator: Alex Robel
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| Topic: 'The Great Arctic Sea Ice Minimum of 2012'
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| Supplementary Article 1: Wang & Overland (2012), 'A sea ice free summer Arctic within 30 years: An update from CMIP5 models'
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| Supplementary Article 2: Asplin et al. (2012), 'Fracture of summer perennial sea ice by ocean swell as a result of Arctic storms'
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| Presenter: Andy Rhines
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| Article: Hansen et al. (2012), 'Perception of climate change'
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| Speaker: Judah Cohen (AER/MIT)
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| Title: 'Fall preconditioning of the dominant mode of boreal winter climate variability'
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| Background Reading: Cohen and Jones (2011), 'A new index for more accurate winter predictions'
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| Suggested Article: New
York Times Op-Ed, 'Bundle Up, It's Global Warming'
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| Presenter: Chris Horvat
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| Article: Mahadevan et al. (2012) 'Eddy-Driven Stratification Initiates North Atlantic Spring Phytoplankton Blooms'
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| Background on algal blooms: 'Phytoplankton Blooms: The Basics'
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| Additional Background: Sabine et al. (2004) 'The Oceanic Sink for Anthropogenic CO2'
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| Speaker: Julien Emile-Geay (USC)
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| Title: Four centuries of tropical Pacific sea-surface temperature from coral archives
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| Background: Clement (2012) 'Paired Perspectives on Global Change'
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| Background: Collins et al. (2010) 'The impact of global warming on the tropical
Pacific Ocean and El Nino'
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| Presenter: Sierra Petersen
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| Article: Bronk Ramsey et al. (2012) 'A complete terrestrial radiocarbon record for 11.2 to 52.8 kyr B.P.'
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| Science Perspective: Reimer (2012) 'Refining the radiocarbon time scale'
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| Nature News: Callaway (2012) 'Core sample sends carbon clock farther back in time'
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| November |
| Moderator: Katie Dagon
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| Topic: 'Climate Politics and the 2012 Presidential Election'
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| Background: Roser-Renouf et al. (2012) 'The Political Benefits of Taking a Pro-Climate Stand in 2012'
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| Additional suggested background reading to be sent out by email.
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| Speaker: Mary-Louise
Timmermans (Yale)
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| Title: Arctic Ocean Structure and Dynamics: Highlights from recent observations
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| Background: Morison et al. (2012) 'Changing Arctic Ocean freshwater pathways'
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| Background: Carmack & Melling (2010) 'Warmth from the deep'
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| No ClimaTea Today (Thanksgiving Holiday)
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| Speaker: Maria Waldinger (LSE)
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| Title: 'Climatic Variability and Economic Growth in Europe, 1500 - 1750 CE'
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| December |
| No ClimaTea Today (AGU Fall Meeting)
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