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ClimaTea Schedule (Spring 2013)
ClimaTea is held every Tuesday from 3-4pm in the HUCE Seminar room, which is on the 3rd floor of the Geo Museum in the Harvard University Center for the Environment.
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February
Tuesday, February 5th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Cristian Proistosescu
Article: PALAEOSENS Project Members (Nature 2012), 'Making sense of palaeoclimate sensitivity'
Supplementary material: Available here
   
Tuesday, February 12th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Joe Fitzgerald
Article: K. Smith et al. (GRL 2012), 'Mitigation of 21st century Antarctic sea ice loss by stratospheric ozone recovery'
   
Tuesday, February 19th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Speaker: Hugh Morrison (UCAR)
Title: Improvements and remaining challenges in the parameterization of microphysics and its impact on deep convection
   
Tuesday, February 26th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Ji Nie
Article: Lin et al. (Nature Climate Change 2012), 'Physically based assessment of hurricane surge threat under climate change'
Supplementary material: Available here
   
March
Tuesday, March 5th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Speaker: Tim Merlis (Princeton/GFDL)
Title: The sensitivity of global tropical cyclone frequency to climate changes
   
Tuesday, March 12th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Holly Dail
Article: Hargreaves et al. (Clim. Past Discuss. 2012), 'Skill and reliability of climate model ensembles at the Last Glacial Maximum and mid Holocene'
Reviews: Available here
   
Tuesday, March 19th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
No ClimaTea Today (Spring Recess)
   
Tuesday, March 26th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Ding Ma
Article: L'Heureux et al. (Nature Climate Change 2013), 'Recent multidecadal strengthening of the Walker circulation across the tropical Pacific'
Supplementary material: Available here
   
April
Tuesday, April 2nd, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Speaker: Michael Dietze (Boston University)
Title: The PEcAn Project: Carbon-Cycle Reanalysis Facilitated by Model-Data Ecoinformatics
Background reading: Dietze et al. (Plant, Cell, & Environment) 'On improving the communication between models and data'
   
Tuesday, April 9th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Nathan Arnold
Article: Berg et al. (Nature Geoscience 2013), 'Strong increase in convective precipitation in response to higher temperatures'
Supplementary material: Available here
   
*Thursday*, April 11th, *12pm*, *Geo. Mus. 418*
(Note the special day, time, and room)
Speaker: Kyle Armour (MIT)
Title: New perspectives on the role of oceans in transient climate change
Background reading: Armour et al. (To appear in J. Climate) 'Time-varying climate sensitivity from regional feedbacks'
   
Tuesday, April 16th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Yang Tian
Article: Bennartz et al. (Nature 2013), 'July 2012 Greenland melt extent enhanced by low-level liquid clouds'
Supplementary material: Available here
   
Tuesday, April 23rd, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Chris Parendo
Article: Parrenin et al. (Science 2013), 'Synchronous Change of Atmospheric CO2 and Antarctic Temperature During the Last Deglacial Warming'
Supplementary material: Available here
Additional background reading: Brook (Science Perspectives 2013) , 'Leads and lags at the End of the Last Ice Age'
Additional background reading: New York Times (Feb. 2013), 'Study of Ice Age Bolsters Carbon and Warming Link'
   
*Thursday*, April 25th, *12pm*, *Geo. Mus. 418*
(Note the special day, time, and room)
Speaker: Gabriel Vecchi (NOAA/GFDL)
Title: Attribution, Prediction and Projection of Hurricane Activity
Background reading: Vecchi et al. (J. Climate 2013, in press) , 'Impacts of Atmospheric Temperature Trends on Tropical Cyclone Activity'
Additional background: Vecchi et al. (Science Perspectives 2008) , 'Whither Hurricane Activity?'
Supplementary material: Available here .
   
Tuesday, April 30th, 3pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Presenter: Karen McKinnon
Article: Maness et al. (Nature Geoscience 2012), 'Summertime climate response to mountain pine beetle disturbance in British Columbia'
Supplementary material: Available here
   
*Thursday*, May 9th, *12pm*, *Geo. Mus. 418*
(Note the special day, time, and room)
Speaker: Irene Moroz (Oxford)
Title: Stochastic Parameterisation and Model Uncertainty
Background reading: Arnold et al. (To appear in Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. London) 'Stochastic Parameterisations and Model Uncertainty in the Lorenz '96 System'
   
   

     
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Joe Fitzgerald
Cristian Proistosescu