Harvard Climate Seminar

Title: "The Ocean’s Buoyancy Budget and Changes in the Overturning Circulation Over Glacial Cycles" Jess Adkins is a chemical oceanographer interested in using trace metals to better understand the mechanisms of rapid climate change and climate evolution...

Inez Fung Professor of Atmospheric Science Univeristy of California, Berkeley The Tibetan Plateau and East Asian Banded Precipitation The concept of the “Asian monsoon” masks the existence of two separate summer rainfall regimes: convective storms over...

Fuqing Zhang Director, Center for Advanced Data Assimilation and Predictability Techniques (ADAPT) And, Professor, Department of Meteorology and Department of Statistics Pennsylvania State University Predictability limits, data assimilation, and...

Rodrigo Caballero Professor and Head, Department of Meteorology Stockholm University, Sweden Atmospheric superrotation at Earth's surface Atmospheric superrotation refers to a state with prograde (i.e. westerly) zonal-mean winds at or near the equator. It...

Sonia I. Seneviratne Professor, Department of Environmental Systems Science ETH Zurich, Land-Climate Dynamics Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science Climate extremes at 1.5°C vs 2°C global warming: The IPCC SR15 report and underlying evidence In...

John M. (Mike) Wallace Professor Emeritus, Department of Atmospheric Sciences University of Washington The Atmospheric signature of ENSO The signature of ENSO provides textbook examples of some of the processes that shape the atmospheric general...

Climate dynamics of lava planets Raymond T. Pierrehumbert Halley Professor of Physics, University of Oxford Lava planets are rocky planets in orbits sufficiently close to their host stars that they are tide locked with a substellar temperature above the...

Gabriel Vecchi Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Princeton University

Sukyoung Lee Professor of Meteorology Penn State University Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science Tropically Excited Arctic warMing (TEAM) mechanism: A Theory based on a General Circulation Perspective Records of past climates show a wide...

Lorenzo Polvani Professor of Applied Mathematics and Earth & Environmental Sciences Columbia University Why has the lower stratosphere stopped cooling for the last 20 years? The cooling of the stratosphere is an important fingerprint of CO2 on the climate...