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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Harvard Climate Seminar
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SUMMARY:Harvard Climate Seminar
DESCRIPTION:<div><strong><span style="font-size:18px;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;">Simona Bordoni</span></span></strong></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;">California Institutute of Technology</span></span></div><p><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><!--break--></span></span></p><strong><em>"Seasonally migrating convergence zones on Earth and other terrestrial planets"</em></strong><p><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;">Abstract:</span></span></p><p>Idealized modeling studies have provided the basis for significant progress on our conceptual understanding of the fundamental dynamics of tropical circulations and associated convergence zones. Here, we study seasonally migrating convergence zones in an idealized atmospheric general circulation model in a wide range of configurations and climates. In particular, we explore dynamical and thermodynamical mechanisms mediating the response of tropical precipitation to changes in surface heat capacity, planetary rotation rate and atmospheric long wave optical depth. Implications for observed monsoons on Earth and seasonal weather patterns on terrestrial planets will also be discussed. <a href="http://web.gps.caltech.edu/~bordoni/docs/Faulk_etal_2016.pdf" target="_blank" title="[Background reading]">[Background reading]</a></p>
LOCATION:HUCE Seminar Room (MCZ 440)
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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