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ClimaTea Lectures (Spring 2004)
Tuesdays 3-4pm in the Center for the Environment (directions)

February
Thursday, February 5, 4:30pm
Speaker: Yossi Ashkenazy (Weizmann)
Title: Does the Equator lead glacial cycle dynamics?
Article: Lea, D.W. et al. (2000). Climate impact of late Quaternary Equatorial Pacific sea surface temperature variations. Science 289, 1719.
Presenter: John Higgins
Thursday, February 12, 4:30pm
Article: Alley, R.B. et al. (2003). Abrupt Climate Change. Science 299, 2005.
Presenter: Laure Zanna and Ian Eisenman
Tuesday, February 24, 4pm
Article: Bond, G et al. (2001). Persistent solar influence on north Atlantic climate during the Holocene. Science 294, 2130.
Supplemental Reading: Fleitmann, D et al. (2003). Holocene Forcing of the Indian Monsoon Recorded in a Stalagmite from Southern Oman. Science 300, 1737.

Hodell, D et al (2001). Solar Forcing of Drought Frequency in the Maya Lowlands. Science 292, 1367.
Presenters: John Higgins
 
March
Tuesday, March 2, 4pm
Speaker: Michael Spall (WHOI)
Title: Thermohaline circulation and water mass transformation in marginal seas
Tuesday, March 16, 4pm
Speaker: Cecilia Bitz (UW)
Title: On the maintenance of the sea-ice edge
Tuesday, March 23, 3pm
Speaker: Baylor Fox-Kemper (Princeton)
Title: Integral Constraints and Eddy Fluxes in Oceanic Gyres
March 30
  Spring Break!
   
April
Tuesday, April 6, 4pm
Article: Jim Ledwell (WHOI; on leave at MIT)
Title: Enhanced Salt Flux in the Tropical North Atlantic Pycnocline
Tuesday, April 20, 4pm
Speaker: Konrad Hughen (WHOI)
Title: Arctic Oscillation and Summer Temperature Variability for the Past 600 years
Tuesday, April 27, 4pm
Article: McManus et al (2004). Collapse and rapid resumption of Atlantic meridional circulation linked to deglacial climate changes. Nature 428, 834.
Presenter: Dorian Abbot
   
May
Tuesday, May 4, 4pm
Article: Rodbell et al (1999). An ~15000-Year Record of El Nino-Driven Alluviation in Southwestern Ecuador. Science 283, 516.
Tuesday, May 11, 4pm
Speaker: Rui Xin Huang (WHOI)
Title: Energetics of the oceanic general circulation
Tuesday, May 18, 4pm
Speaker: Athanasios Koutavas (MIT)
Title: Variability of the eastern Pacific ITCZ since the last glacial maximum: regional perspective and global context
   

     
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Laure Zanna
Ian Eisenman
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