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ClimaTea Schedule (Spring 2010)
Tuesdays 3-4pm in the Geological Museum, Room 418

February
Tuesday, February 2nd, 3pm
Article: Lu, Chen and Frierson (2008)
Title: 'Response of the Zonal Mean Atmospheric Circulation to El Nino versus Global Warming'
Presenter: William Boos
   
Tuesday, February 9th, 3pm
Speaker: Prof. Alexey Fedorov
Title: 'El Nino, Tropical Cyclones, and the Climate of the Early Pliocene'
Reading: Fedorov,Brierley, and Emanuel (2010) 'Tropical cyclones and permanent El Nino in the Early Pliocene'
Fedorov, et al. (2006) 'The Pliocene Paradox (Mechanisms for a Permanent El Nino)'
Brierley, et al. (2009) 'Greatly Expanded Tropical Warm Pool and Weakened Hadley Circulation in the Early Pliocene'
   
Tuesday, February 16th, 3pm
Speaker: Prof. Chris Thorncroft
Title: A Multiscale analysis of the West African Monsoon
Reading: Thorncroft, Hall, and Kiladis (2008) Three-Dimensional Structure and Dynamics of African Easterly Waves. Part III: Genesis
Berry & Thorncroft (2005) Case Study of an Intense African Easterly Wave
Thorncroft (Abstract) A Multiscale analysis of the West African Monsoon
   
Tuesday, February 23rd, 3pm
Article: Huybers & Langmuir (2009) 'Feedback between deglaciation, volcanism, and atmospheric CO2'
Presenter: Hilary Close
   
March
Tuesday, March 2nd, 3pm
Speaker: Prof. Adam Sobel
Title: 'Atmospheric Water Vapor: some studies of mechanisms that control it'
Article: Wright, et al (2009) 'Diagnosis of Relative Humidity Changes in a Warmer Climate Using Tracers of Last Saturation'
Wright, et al (2009) 'Influence of condensate evaporation on water vapor and its stable isotopes in a GCM'
Galewsky, et al (2005) 'Diagnosis of Subtropical Humidity Dynamics Using Tracers of Last Saturation'
   
Tuesday, March 9th, 3pm
Title: 'Probabilistic assessment of local and global sea level during the Last Interglacial state'
Speaker: Dr. Robert Kopp
Article: Kopp (2009) 'Probabilistic assessment of sea level during the Last Interglacial stage'
Article: Kopp (2009) 'Supplemental Material for Probabilistic assement of sea level during the Last Interglacial stage'
   
Tuesday, March 16th, 3pm
No Meeting: SPRING BREAK
   
Tuesday, March 23rd, 3pm
Article: Alvarez-Solas et al (2010) 'Links between ocean temperatures and iceberg discharge during Heinrich events'
Alvarez-Solas et al (2010) 'Supplementary Information for 'Links between ocean temperatures and iceberg discharge during Heinrich events''
Hulbe (2010) 'News & Views: Extreme iceberg generation exposed'
Presenter: Sierra Petersen
   
Tuesday, March 30th, 3pm
Article: Swann et al. (2010) 'Changes in Arctic vegetation amplify high-latitude warming through the greenhouse effect'
Presenter: Mauricio Santillana
   
April
Tuesday, April 6th, 3pm
Speaker: Hyo-Seok Park
Title: The impact of the Tibetan Plateau on the onset of the South Asian summer monsoon
Reading: Cook & Held (1992) The Stationary Response to Large-Scale Orography in a General Circulatin Model and a Linear Model
   
Tuesday, April 13th, 3pm
Speaker: Prof. Jason Smerdon
Title: Reconstructing High-Resolution Climate Fields During the Common Ero: Motivations and Challenges
Reading: Mann et al (2009) Global Signatures and Dynamical Origins of the Little Ice Age and Medieval Climate Anomoly
Smerdon Et Al (2009, in press) A pseudoproxy evaluation of the CCA and RegEM methods for reconstructing climate fields of the last millennium
   
Tuesday, April 20th, 3pm
Article: Trenberth (2009) 'An imperative for climate change planning: tracking Earth's global energy'
Article: Trenberth and Fasullo (2010) 'Tracking Earth's Energy'
Article: Trenberth and Fasullo (2009) 'Changes in the flow of energy through the Earth's climate system'
Presenter: Cristian Proistosescu
Tuesday, April 27th, 3pm
Speaker: Michael O'Leary
Title: Searching for PLIOMAX: Quantifying sea level (and by proxy, ice volume) during the mid-Pliocene climate optimum -2.9-3.3 Ma
Article: Raymo, et al. (2009) PLIOMAX:Pliocene maximum sea level project
Article: Dowsett, et al. (2009) Pliocene three-dimensional global ocean temperature reconstruction
Article: Draut, et al. (2003) Climate stability during the pliocene warm period
   
   

     
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Ethan Butler
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