2016

This week Joe Fitzgerald will present on Shin et. al. 2010. Here are his thoughts on the paper: In previous ClimaTea meetings we have discussed the related subjects of drought, heat waves, and the relationship between SST anomalies and anomalous...

" Gradient Wind Imbalance at the Outflow of Hurricanes" by Yair Cohen Abstract The gradient wind balance is an integral part of tropical meteorology and of Hurricanes in particular. It is only due to this balance that the otherwise in effectively large...

"Sea Ice Stability and Early Warning Signals" Dr. Ian Eisenman (UC San Diego) Abstract: The retreat of Arctic sea ice is one of the most dramatic signals of recent climate change in the observational record. It involves an amplifying feedback associated...

This week GS Cristi Proistosescu will be leading discussion on Xie, Kosaka, and Okumura, 2016: Distinct energy budgets for anthropogenic and natural changes during global warming hiatus. Cristi says the following about the paper: " The main result of the...

This week GS Colin Meyer leads the discussion on the attached paper "Flow variability and ongoing margin shifts on Bindschadler and MacAyeal Ice Streams, West Antarctica" by Hulbe et. al. 2016. Here are Colin's thoughts on the paper: Narrow bands of fast...

This week, GS Huize Wang will lead the discussion on "3D modeling of GJ1214b's atmosphere: formation of inhomogeneous high clouds and observational implications" by Charnay et. al. 2015. The paper and some additional information are attached. Huize's...

This week Tom Laakso will be presenting Kopp et al. 2016. Tom says the following about the paper: "Kopp et al. use several different methods to a) estimate sea level rise over the past 3 millenia, b) reassess 20th century sea level rise, and c) project...

This week Marty Singh will be discussing Shaw and Voigt (2015) " Tug of war on summertime circulation between radiative forcing and sea surface warming." Here are his thoughts on the paper: The authors use atmospheric GCM simulations with fixed sea...

This week Marena Lin will be presenting on Day et al. (2015), "Coupling of South and East Asian Monsoon Precipitation in July-August." Her thoughts on this topic are:Monsoon rainfall forms the lifeblood of Asian agriculture-based economies, so...