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'Are trends in weather extremes detectable in the modern record?'

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Speakers: Hannah Lee and Andy Rhines Article: Pall et al. (2011), 'Anthropogenic greenhouse gas contribution to flood risk in England and Wales in autumn 2000' Also see the accompanying news and views: Schiermeier (2011), and the related article in the...

Climate Tea - Tom Laakso

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Speaker: Tom Laakso Introduction: Archer (2011), 'Rapid carbon sequestration at the termination of the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum' Primary: Bowen and Zachos (2011), 'Rapid carbon sequestration at the termination of the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal...

Climate Tea - Joe Fitzgerald

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Speaker: Joe Fitzgerald Article: Kaspi & Schneider (2011) , 'Winter cold of eastern continental boundaries induced by warm ocean water' News and Views Summary: Boos (2011) , 'Cold Winters from Warm Oceans'

Climate Tea - Ethan Butler

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Presenter: Ethan Butler Article: Barriopedro et al. (2011) , 'The Hot Summer of 2010: Redrawing the Temperature Record Map of Europe' Article: Dole et al. (2011) , 'Was there a basis for anticipating the 2010 Russian heat wave?'

Can one predict the ocean circulation?

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Speaker: Carl Wunsch Reading: Wunsch (manuscript, 2011) 'Covariances and Linear Predictability of the North Atlantic Ocean'

Climate Tea - Cristi Proistosescu

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Speaker: Cristi Proistosescu Article: Armour et al. (2011), 'The reversibility of sea ice loss in a state-of-the-art climate model'

Climate Tea - Sierra Petersen

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Speaker: Sierra Petersen Article: Barker et al. (2011) , '800,000 Years of Abrupt Climate Variability'

Climate Tea - Karen McKinnon

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Speaker: Karen McKinnon Article: Min et al. (2011) , 'Human contribution to more-intense precipitation extremes'

Climate Tea - Nathan Arnold

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Speaker: Nathan Arnold Article: Muller and O'Gorman (2011), 'An energetic perspective on the regional response of precipitation to climate change'

'Is there a small ice-cap instability?'

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Speaker: Alex Robel Article: For everyone -- Tietsche et al. (2011), 'Recovery mechanisms of Arctic summer sea ice' Article: For background -- Notz (2009), 'The future of ice sheets and sea ice: Between reversible retreat and unstoppable loss'

A Proposed Mechanism for the Asymmetric Duration of El Nino and La Nina

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Presenter: Mary Moore Article: Okumura et al. (2011), 'A Proposed Mechanism for the Asymmetric Duration of El Nino and La Nina'

Progress report on the Eocene 'low gradient' and 'equable' climate problems

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Speaker: Matthew Huber Background reading: Liu et al., (2009), 'Global Cooling During the Eocene-Oligocene Climate Transition', and Eldrett et al., (2009), 'Increased seasonality through the Eocene to Oligocene transition in northern high latitudes'. Also...