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  • 2020 Apr 15

    Special ClimaTea

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    Virtual

    Speaker: Professor Jun Yang from Peking University

    Title: "Climates and Habitability of Tidally Locked Terrestrial Planets"

    Abstract: Over 4000 exoplanets have been confirmed and most of them are orbiting around low-mass stars. Due to strong tidal forces, terrestrial planets in the habitable zone of low-mass stars are likely in synchronous rotation or spin-orbit resonance orbits. These planets differ from Earth in three major aspects: the slow rotation rate, the uneven distribution of...

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  • 2020 Apr 14

    ClimaTea Journal Club

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    Virtual

    Speaker: Henri Drake, PhD Candidate at the MIT/WHOI Joint Program

    Henri will be presenting his talk "How skillful are climate models and have they improved over time?"

    Abstract: As climate models have become increasingly comprehensive in their representations of...

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  • 2020 Apr 07

    ClimaTea Journal Club

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    Virtual

    Speaker: Brad Lipovsky

    Brad will lead this coming week's discussion of "Rapid ablation zone expansion amplifies north Greenland mass loss" by Noël et al. (2019). 

    Abstract: Since the early...

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  • 2020 Mar 24

    ClimaTea Journal Club on Zoom

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    Virtual

    Speaker: Professor Peter Huybers

    Peter will be leading a discussion of  "The role of absolute humidity on transmission rates of the COVID-19 outbreak" by Luo et al. (2020) attached. 

    Abstract: A novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was identified in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, in December 2019 and has caused over 40,000 cases worldwide to date....

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  • 2020 Mar 10

    ClimaTea Journal Club

    3:00pm

    Location: 

    Hoffman Faculty Lounge

    Speaker: Parker Liautaud 

    Parker will be discussing "Local insolation changes enhance Antarctic interglacials: Insights from an 800,000-year ice sheet simulation with transient climate forcing"...

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  • 2020 Mar 03

    Special ClimaTea

    3:00pm

    Location: 

    HUCE MCZ 440

    Speaker: Nathanael Wong 

    Nathanael will be discussing "Physical Mechanisms Controlling the Offshore Propagation of Convection in the Tropics" (parts 1 and ...

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