2015

"Exploring Global Warming with Climate Models of Various Complexity" by Syukuro Manabe (Princeton University) Dr. Manabe is a Senior Meteorologist at Princeton University, and one of the world’s leading scientists in numerical modeling of climate and...

"From the Troposphere to the Stratosphere: Physical and Chemical Details Linking Chemistry and Radiative Forcing" by Frank Keutsch (Harvard/SEAS) Abstract: Tropospheric ozone and secondary aerosol affect climate and are known to harm human health and...

Speaker: Shang-Ping Xie (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) Abstract: Global mean temperature has risen for the past century and is projected to rise even more in response to the increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Precipitation change is of...

Speaker: Dr. Clara Deser (NCAR/UCAR) Abstract: This talk will highlight the relative importance of internally-generated vs. externally-forced climate trends at local and regional scales over North America and Eurasia based on a 30-member ensemble of the...

Speaker: Dr. Gerald Haug (ETH Zurich) Abstract: We argue for a pervasive link between cold climates and polar ocean stratification. In both the Subarctic North Pacific and the Antarctic Zone of the Southern Ocean, ice ages were marked by low productivity...