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ClimaTea Schedule (Spring 2009)
Tuesdays 3-4pm in the Geological Museum, Room 418

February
Tuesday, February 3rd, 3pm
Speaker: Dr. Dorian Abbot
Title: 'Mudball: A dusty Snowball Earth?'
Reading: Pierrehumbert (2004) 'High Levels of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Necessary for the Termination of Global Glaciation'
Pierrehumbert (2005) 'Climate Dynamics of a Hard Snowball Earth'
   
Tuesday, February 10th, 3pm
Speaker: Prof. Michael McCormick
Title: 'Assessing Climate Change and the Fall of the Roman Empire'
Reading: McCormick, Dutton and Mayewski (2007) 'Volcanoes and the Climate Forcing of Carolingian Europe, A.D. 750-950'
   
Tuesday, February 17th, 3pm
Location: Daly Seminar Room
Speaker: Prof. Paul Kushner
Title: 'On the origins of temporal power-law behavior in the atmospheric general circulation'
Reading: Vyushin, Kushner and Mayer (2009) 'On the origins of temporal power-law behavior in the global atmospheric circulation'
   
Tuesday, February 24th, 3pm
Location: Daly Seminar Room
Speaker: Prof. Eric Maloney
Title: 'The atmospheric moist static energy budget and tropical intraseasonal variability'
Reading: Sobel et. al. (2008) 'The role of surface heat fluxes in tropical intraseasonal oscillations'
   
March
Tuesday, March 3rd, 3pm
Article: Kjetil Vage, et. al. (2009) 'Surprising return of deep convection to the subpolar North Atlantic Ocean in winter 2007-2008'
Presenter: Andrew Rhines
   
Tuesday, March 10th, 3pm
Article: Glasser and Scambos (2008) 'A structural glaciological analysis of the 2002 Larsen B ice shelf collapse'
Presenter: Ethan Butler
   
Tuesday, March 17th, 3pm
Article: Kang, et. al. (2008) 'The Response of the ITCZ to Extratropical Thermal Forcing'
Presenter: Dr. William Boos
   
Tuesday, March 24th, 3pm
NO MEETING: Spring Break
   
Tuesday, March 31st, 3pm
Article: Böning et al. (2008) 'The response of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current to recent climate change'
Article: Zickfeld et al. (2007) 'Response of the global carbon cycle to human-induced changes in Southern Hemisphere winds'
Presenter: Tom Laakso
   
April
Tuesday, April 7th, 3pm
Speaker: Prof. Marat Khairoutdinov
Title: 'Cloud-resolving modeling: From super-parameterization in GCM to LES of deep convection'
Reading: Khairoutdinov and Randall (2006) 'High-resolution simulation of shallow-to-deep convection transition over land'
Randall, et. al. (2003) 'Breaking the cloud-parameterization deadlock'
   
Tuesday, April 14th, 3pm
Article:: Zhao and Vallis (2008) 'Parameterizing mesoscale eddies with residual and Eulerian schemes, and a comparison with eddy-permitting models'
Presenter: Nathan Arnold
   
Tuesday, April 21st, 3pm
Speaker: Prof. Ben Kirtman
Title: 'Noise and Climate Variability'
Reading: Kirtman and Shukla (2002) 'Interactive coupled ensemble: A new coupling strategy for CGCMs'
Yeh, et.al. (2007) 'Local versus non-local atmospheric weather noise and the North Pacific SST variability'
   
Tuesday, April 28th, 3pm
Speaker: Dr. Rosanne D'Arrigo
Title: 'Indo-Pacific Atmosphere-Ocean Influences on Indonesian Hydroclimate over Recent Centuries'
Reading: D'Arrigo et al. (2006) 'Monsoon Drought over Java, Indonesia, during the past two centuries'
   
July
Tuesday, July 21st, 3pm
Speaker: Yossi Ashkenazy
Title: 'A new approach to the latitudinal dependence of extra-tropical Rossby waves '
Reading: Ashkenazy, et. al. (2009) 'A new approach to the latitudinal dependence of Rossby waves'
   
   
   

     
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Nathan Arnold
Tom Laakso