2014

Speaker: Tiffany Shaw (Columbia) Abstract: "The Northern Hemisphere exhibits an abrupt regime transition between winter in summer involving the organization of the flow into subtropical anticyclones and monsoons. The transition provides a useful example...

Graduate student Joe Fitzgerald will lead a discussion of a recent PNAS paper by Tung and Zhou entitled, "Using data to attribute episodes of warming and cooling in instrumental records" ( supplementary material). Joe summarizes the paper as follows: "The...

Graduate student Andy Rhines will lead a discussion of a recent Geophysical Research Letters paper by Barnes et al. (2014), entitled, 'Exploring recent trends in Northern Hemisphere Blocking.' Andy summarizes the discussion as follows: "Barnes et al (2014...

Speaker: Jung-Eun Lee (Brown) Background reading: Boyce and Lee (Proc. R. Soc. B, 2010), 'An exceptional role for flowering plant physiology in the expansion of tropical rainforests and biodiversity' Lee, et al. (Geophysical Research Letters, 2012),...

Speaker: Doug Nychka (NCAR) Background reading: Nychka, et al. (NCAR Technical Note, 2013), 'A multi-resolution Gaussian process model for the analysis of large spatial data sets'