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ClimaTea Lectures (Spring 2005)
Tuesdays 3-4pm in the Center for the Environment (directions)

February
Tuesday, February 8, 3pm
Articles: Carslaw et al (2002). Cosmic rays, clouds, and climate. Science 298, 1732.

Shaviv and Veizer (2003). Celestial driver of Phanerozoic climate? GSA Today (July), 4.

Presenter: Roiy Sayag
Tuesday, February 15, 3pm
Articles: Pierrehumbert (2004). High levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide necessary for the termination of global glaciation. Nature 429, 646.
Presenter: Nikos Bakas
Tuesday, February 22, 3pm
Articles: Peter Huybers (WHOI)
Presenter: Obliquity pacing of the 40 and 100ky modes of glacial variability
   
March
Tuesday, March 1, 3pm
Article: Lorraine Lisiecki (Brown)
Presenter: Using a new 5.3-Myr benthic d18O stack to characterize Plio-Pleistocene climate transitions
Tuesday, March 8, 3pm
Article: Steve Barker (LDEO)
Presenter: Mid-Brunhes dissolution interval (~600-200ka) and changes in carbonate production
Tuesday, March 15, 3pm
Speaker: Jack Whitehead (WHOI)
Title: Multiple Equilibria and Oscillations in Laboratory Models of Ocean and Earth
Tuesday, March 22, 3pm
Title: Mann et al (1999). Northern hemisphere temperatures during the past millennium: inferences, uncertainties, and limitations. GRL 26, 759-762.

McIntyre & McKitrick (2005). Hockey sticks, principal components, and spurious significance. GRL, 32 .
Presenter: John Higgins and Laure Zanna
Tuesday, March 29, 3pm
  No meeting (spring recess)
   
April
Tuesday, April 5, 3pm
Speaker: Irene Moroz (Oxford)
Presenter: A simplified model of the Martian Atmosphere
Tuesday, April 12, 3pm
Speaker: Geoff Vallis (GFDL)
Title: Dynamics of the (so-called) NAO and the (so-called) Annular Modes
Tuesday, April 19, 3pm
Speaker: Julian Sachs (MIT)
Title: Reconstructing ENSO Variability from Molecular Rain Gauges.
Auxiliary Reading: Cane (2005). The evolution of El Nino, past and future.Earth & Planetary Sci Letters 230, 227-240.

Collins et al (2005). El Nino- or La Nina-like climatea change? Climate Dynamics 24:89-104.

Koutavas et al (2002). El Nino-like pattern in ice age tropical sea surface temperature. Science 297, 226-230.
Tuesday, April 26, 3pm
Speaker: Amala Mahadevan (BU/Harvard)
Title: What Controls Oceanic Surface pCO2?
   
May
Tuesday, May 3, 3pm
Speaker: Delia Oppo (WHOI)
Title: The Influence of North Atlantic Abrupt Events on Deglacial Pacific Surface Temperature and Salinity.
Background Reading: Kiefer and Kienast (2005). Patterns of deglacial warming in the Pacific Ocean: a review with emphasis on the time interval of Heinrich event 1. Quat Sci Rev 24, 1063-1081.
Tuesday, May 10, 3pm
Speaker: Larry Pratt (WHOI)
Title: Hydraulics of the Faroe-Bank Channel Overflow

     
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Laure Zanna
Ian Eisenman
John Higgins