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New perspectives on the role of oceans in transient climate change (Note the special day, time, and room)

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Speaker: Kyle Armour (MIT) Background reading: Armour et al. (To appear in J. Climate) 'Time-varying climate sensitivity from regional feedbacks'

Stochastic Parameterisation and Model Uncertainty (Note the special day, time, and room)

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Speaker: Irene Moroz (Oxford) Background reading: Arnold et al. (To appear in Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. London) 'Stochastic Parameterisations and Model Uncertainty in the Lorenz '96 System'

OceanScope

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Speaker: Thomas Rossby (URI)

ClimaTea Journal Club

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"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...

What sets the patterns and timescales of climate response to forcing? (Note the special day, time, and room)

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Speaker: Kyle Armour (MIT)

New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable

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Contact Name: Susan Rivo New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtables are free and open to the public. Advanced registration is not required. New England Governors' Energy Infrastructure Proposals; & ENE's EnergyVision(2050) This past December, the...

Bringing big data to the farm

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‘Digital agriculture’ touted in HUCE lecture By Al Powell, Harvard Staff Writer The next great agricultural revolution is likely to come from information, not new plant breeds or genetic tinkering, as digital technology and big data help farmers make...

ClimaTea Lecture with Rebecca Jackson (WHOI)

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This week Rebecca Jackson from the MIT/WHOI joint program will be talking to us about " Ocean-glacier interactions in Greenland: fjord dynamics and heat transport." Rebecca says the following about the talk: Glacial fjords link glaciers of the Greenland...

ClimaTea Journal Club: "On the nature of the sea ice albedo feedback in simple models"

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This week GS Chris Horvat is going to lead the discussion and explore how modern GCMs simulate sea ice, and two ways modelers have been led into traps while modeling it. First, Moon and Wettlaufer (2014) (attached) explore modeling of growth and decay in...

ClimaTea Lecture: "Understanding the continuum of Dansgaard-Oeschger variability"

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Speaker: Axel Timmermann (U Hawaii) Abstract: Millennial-scale variability associated with Dansgaard Oeschger (DO) and Heinrich events (HE) is one of the most puzzling glacial climate features found in paleo-climate archives. The presentation will...

A perfect storm of fire and ice may have led to snowball Earth

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Explaining a "once-in-a-billion-year event" By Leah Burrows What caused the largest glaciation event in Earth’s history, known as ‘snowball Earth’? Geologists and climate scientists have been searching for the answer for years but the root cause of the...

ClimaTea Lecture: "Impact of the ocean warming trend on Australian rainfall extremes during the 2010/11 La Nina event"

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Speaker: Dr. Caroline Ummenhofer (WHOI) Abstract: Droughts and floods are expected to become more frequent with an intensifying hydrological cycle in a warming world. Extreme rainfall conditions in Australia during the 2010/11 La Niña resulted in...