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