Harvard Climate Seminar

David Hodell (University of Cambridge) Persistent instability of glacial climate and overturning circulation in the North Atlantic for the past 1.5 million years Nick Shackleton’s pioneering work on piston cores from the Iberian Margin demonstrated that...

Yongyun Hu Peking University, China "Anthropogenic forcing on widening of the Hadley circulation" Abstract: Poleward expansion of the Hadley circulation has been an important topic in climate change studies in the past decade, and one of the critically...

Yihui Ding National Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China Co-sponsored by Harvard University Center for the Enviornement and the China Project at Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences "Long-term...

Simona Bordoni California Institutute of Technology "Seasonally migrating convergence zones on Earth and other terrestrial planets" Abstract: Idealized modeling studies have provided the basis for significant progress on our conceptual understanding of...

“Climate and the Peopling of the World” by Peter de Menocal (Columbia University) Summary: One of the most puzzling questions in modern human origins has been why the dispersal of modern Homo sapiens out of Africa was so delayed after their first...

Joe Pedlosky Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute " Baroclinic Instability over Topography: Unstable at any wavenumber" Abstract: The instability of an inviscid, baroclinic vertically sheared current of uniform potential vorticity, flowing along a uniform...

Paola Cessi Scripps Institution of Oceanography "Warm-route versus cold-route interbasin exchange in the meridional overturning circulation: why is the Atlantic saltier than the Pacific" Abstract: Among the processes attributed to the higher salinity of...

"Exploring Global Warming with Climate Models of Various Complexity" by Syukuro Manabe (Princeton University) Dr. Manabe is a Senior Meteorologist at Princeton University, and one of the world’s leading scientists in numerical modeling of climate and...

" Hypotheses for a Less Negative Aerosol Radiative Forcing" by Bjorn Stevens (Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology)

“Rethinking the Dynamics of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and Implications for Long-Term Climate” by David Marshall (University of Oxford)