2015

" The role of convection in sea ice" by David Rees Jones (University of Oxford) Abstract: Sea ice is a thin, dynamic interface between the atmosphere and ocean. We review the role of sea ice in the climate system, and discuss how we model sea ice in large...

Speaker: Jörn Callies (MIT) Abstract: The ocean plays a key role in the industrial-era climate system: it has taken up nearly a third of the anthropogenic carbon and over 90% of the energy trapped by elevated greenhouse gas concentrations. The ocean...

This week Leah Birch will be leading discussion on Lenaerts et al. 2013: "Irreversible mass loss of Canadian Arctic Archipelago glaciers". Leah says the following about the paper: "The ice volume in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago is the third largest in...

"Detection, Dynamics, and Consequences of Abyssal Ocean Variability" by Dr. Baylor Fox-Kemper (Brown University) Abstract: The ocean is the primary reservoir of thermal energy in the earth system. As greenhouse gasses affect the planetary energy balance...

This week GS Chris Horvat will be leading discussion on Rahmstorf et al (2015), 'Exceptional twentieth-century slowdown in Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation.' Chris says the following about the the upcoming ClimaTea: This week we will continue our...

"The remote impacts of climate feedbacks on regional climate predictability" This week Cristi Proistosescu will be leading discussion on Roe et al. 2015 (papers attached): The remote impacts of climate feedbacks on regional climate predictability. Cristi...

This week, Prof. Ann Pearson will be leading discussion on organic paleoproxies, specifically how TEX86 and Uk37 work. Ann suggests skimming (rather than closely reading) Hurley et al (submitted) and Becker et al (2015), both attached here, and says: 'The...

Speaker: Dr. Young-Oh Kwon (WHOI) This Thursday we will continue in the vein of the AMOC. The abstract for the talk is below: Feedback between the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) multidecadal variability and atmospheric circulation is...

This week Tim Cronin will be leading discussion on Wagner and Eisenman (2015), 'How Climate Model Complexity Influences Sea Ice Stability'. Tim says the following about the paper (attached): "The small ice cap instability, or potential for rapid and...

This week Katie Dagon will be presenting Williams et al. (2015) "Contribution of anthropogenic warming to California drought during 2012–2014." (attached) Katie says about the paper: "The ongoing California drought is a much-discussed topic both in the...