| February |
| Speaker: Carl Wunsch
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| Title: Can one predict the ocean circulation? |
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| Reading: Wunsch
(manuscript, 2011) 'Covariances and Linear Predictability of
the North Atlantic Ocean' |
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| Speaker: Timothy Herbert |
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| Title: The flickering switch of Holocene climate off the Peru margin |
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| Reading: TBA |
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| Topic: 'Is there a small ice-cap instability?' |
| Article: For everyone -- Tietsche et
al. (2011), 'Recovery mechanisms of Arctic summer sea ice' |
| Article: For background -- Notz (2009), 'The future of ice sheets and sea ice: Between
reversible retreat and unstoppable loss' |
| Moderator: Alex Robel |
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| March |
| Speaker: Martin
Tingley |
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| Title: A Discussion of McShane and Wyner
(2010) |
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| Reading: McShane and Wyner
(2010) 'A statistical analysis of multiple
temperature proxies: Are reconstructions of surface
temperatures over the last 1000 years reliable?' |
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| Speaker: Jordan
Dawe |
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| Title: Statistical analysis of a large
eddy simulation shallow cumulus cloud field via cloud tracking |
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| Background reading: Section 4 of Stevens
(2005) 'Atmospheric Moist Convection' |
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| Speaker: Fiamma
Straneo |
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| Title: Do Greenland's outlet glaciers
care about the ocean and viceversa? (Abstract) |
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| Reading: Straneo et al. (2010), 'Rapid Circulation of warm subtropical waters in a major glacial fjord off East Greenland' |
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| Topic: 'Are trends in weather extremes
detectable in the modern record?' |
| Article: Pall et
al. (2011), 'Anthropogenic greenhouse gas contribution to flood risk in England and Wales in autumn 2000' |
| Also see the accompanying news and
views: Schiermeier
(2011), and the related article in the same issue:
Min et al. (2011). |
| Presenters: Hannah Lee and Andy Rhines |
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| Speaker: Markus Jochum |
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| Title: From turbulence to ice sheets: a journey across time and space |
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| Article: Sigman &
Boyle, Nature, (2000), 'Glacial/interglacial
variations in atmospheric carbon dioxide' |
| Article: For background -- Collins et al.,
JClim (2006), 'The Community Climate System Model
Version 3 (CCSM3)' |
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| April |
| Speaker: Zan Stine |
| Title: Changes in the Annual Cycle of Earth's Surface Temperature |
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| Reading: Stine et al.
(2009), 'Changes in the phase of the annual cycle of surface temperature' |
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| Speaker: George Kiladis |
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| Title: Leading modes of synoptic scale
convective activity within the ITCZ |
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| Reading: Kiladis
et al. (2009), 'Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves' |
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| Speaker: Holly
Dail |
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| Title: Synthesizing proxy records and an ocean circulation model to characterize the Last Glacial Maximum |
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| Article: For state estimation background -- Wunsch et al.,
(2009), 'The Global General Circulation of the
Ocean Extimated by the ECCO-Consortium', |
| Article: For proxy reconstruction
background -- Waelbroeck et al.,
(2009), 'Constraints on the magnitude and patterns of
ocean cooling at the Last Glacial Maximum', |
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| Speaker: Matthew Huber |
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| Title: Progress report on the Eocene 'low gradient' and 'equable' climate problems |
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| Background reading -- Liu et al.,
(2009), 'Global Cooling During the
Eocene-Oligocene Climate Transition', and Eldrett et al.,
(2009), 'Increased seasonality through the Eocene
to Oligocene transition in northern high latitudes'.
Also, recent preprint -- Huber
& Caballero
(2011), 'The early Eocene equable climate problem revisited', |
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| May |
| Speaker: Dan Goldberg |
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| Title: The adjustment and long-term
behavior of an ice stream-ice shelf system in response to ocean melting. |
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| Articles: Dupont &
Alley (2005), 'Assessment of the importance of
ice-shelf buttressing to ice-sheet flow', Little et al. (2009), 'How ice shelf morphology controls basal melting' |
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