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ClimaTea Schedule (Fall 2013)
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 University Center for the Environment.
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September
Tuesday, September 10th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Chris Horvat
Article: Kosaka et al. (Nature 2013), 'Recent global-warming hiatus tied to equatorial Pacific surface cooling'
   
Additional reading: Swanson (GRL 2013), 'Emerging selection bias in large-scale climate simulations'
   
Tuesday, September 17th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Alex Robel
Article: Jamieson et al. (Nature Geoscience 2012), 'Ice-stream stability on a reverse bed slope'
   
Additional reading: Gudmundsson (Cryosphere 2013), 'Ice-shelf buttressing and the stability of marine ice sheets'
   
Tuesday, September 24th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Ethan Butler
Article: Vicente-Serrano et al. (PNAS 2013), 'Response of vegetation to drought time-scales across global land biomes'
   
Supplementary material: Available here
   
October
Tuesday, October 1st, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Karen McKinnon
Article: Stuecker et al. (Nature Geoscience 2013), 'A combination mode of the annual cycle and the El Nino/Southern Oscillation'
   
Supplementary material: Available here
   
Tuesday, October 8th
No ClimaTea today due to the Climate Seminar by Joao Teixeira (JPL)
   
Tuesday, October 15th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Mary Moore
Article: Giannini et al. (Environmental Research Letters 2013), 'A unifying view of climate change in the Sahel linking intra-seasonal, interannual and longer time scales'
   
*Thursday*, October 17th, *12pm*, *Geo. Mus. 418*
(Note the special day, time, and room)
Speaker: Kyle Armour (MIT)
Title: What sets the patterns and timescales of climate response to forcing?
   
Tuesday, October 22nd
No ClimaTea today due to the EPS Special Seminar by Robin Wordsworth (Chicago)
   
*Thursday*, October 24th, *12pm*, *Geo. Mus. 418*
(Note the special day, time, and room)
Speaker: Yige Zhang (Yale)
Title: A 12-million year temperature history of the Pacific warm pool and cold tongue: Implications for El Nino
Background reading:
Fedorov et al. (Nature 2013) 'Patterns and mechanisms of early Pliocene warmth'
Wara et al. (Science 2005) 'Permanent El Nino-Like Conditions During the Pliocene Warm Period'
   
Tuesday, October 29th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Speaker: Laure Zanna (Oxford)
Title: Southern Ocean Dynamics & Ocean Heat Uptake
Background reading: Gnanadesikan (Science 1999), 'A Simple Predictive Model for the Structure of the Oceanic Pycnocline'
   
November
Tuesday, November 5th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Sierra Petersen
Article: Caballero and Huber (PNAS 2013), 'State-dependent climate sensitivity in past warm climates and its implications for future climate projections'
   
Tuesday, November 12th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Speaker: Thomas Rossby (URI)
Title: OceanScope
   
Tuesday, November 19th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Cristian Proistosescu
Article: Abe-Ouchi et al. (Nature 2013), 'Insolation-driven 100,000-year glacial cycles and hysteresis of ice-sheet volume'
Supplementary material: Available here
   
Tuesday, November 26th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Jenny Middleton
Article: Carolin et al. (Science 2013), 'Varied Response of Western Pacific Hydrology to Climate Forcings over the Last Glacial Period'
Supplementary material: Available here
   
December
Tuesday, December 3rd, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Katie Dagon
Article 1: Balmaseda et al. (GRL 2013), 'Distinctive climate signals in reanalysis of global ocean heat content'
Article 2: Rosenthal et al. (Science 2013), 'Pacific Ocean Heat Content During the Past 10,000 Years'
Supplementary material for Rosenthal et al.: Available here
   
Tuesday, December 10th
No ClimaTea today (AGU Fall Meeting)
   
   

     
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Questions?
Email the organizers:
Joe Fitzgerald
Cristian Proistosescu