ClimaTea

Speaker: Brad Lipovsky Brad will lead this coming week's discussion of "Rapid ablation zone expansion amplifies north Greenland mass loss" by Noël et al. (2019). Abstract: Since the early 1990s, the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) has been losing mass at an...

Speaker: Lei Wang Lei will be leading a discussion of " Insignificant effect of Arctic amplification on the amplitude of midlatitude atmospheric waves " by Blackport and Screen (2020) attached . Abstract: Whether Arctic amplification has contributed to a...

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Speaker: Parker Liautaud Parker will be discussing "Local insolation changes enhance Antarctic interglacials: Insights from an 800,000-year ice sheet simulation with transient climate forcing" by Tigchelaar et al. (2018). See attached. Abstract: The...

Speaker: Nathanael Wong Nathanael will be discussing "Physical Mechanisms Controlling the Offshore Propagation of Convection in the Tropics" (parts 1 and 2 ) by Coppin and Bellon (2019). See attached. Abstract: Part 1, Flat Island An idealized convection...

Speaker: Minmin Fu Minmin will be discussing "Deep learning for multi-year ENSO forecasts" by Ham et al. (2019). See attached . Abstract: Variations in the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) are associated with a wide array of regional climate extremes...

Speaker: Kaitlyn Loftus Kaitlyn will be leading the discussion on " Formation of Tropical Anvil Clouds by Slow Evaporation" by Seeley et al. (2019). See attached 1 , 2 . Abstract: Tropical anvil clouds play a large role in the Earth's radiation balance...

Speaker: Ned Kleiner and Ted Amdur Ned and Ted will be discussing "Deep-reaching acceleration of global mean ocean circulation over the past two decades" by Hu et al. (2020). See attached. Abstract: Ocean circulation redistributes Earth’s energy and water...

Speaker: Todd Mooring Title: Todd will be discussing "Quasiresonant amplification of planetary waves and recent Northern Hemisphere weather extremes" by Petoukhov et al. (2013). See attached. Abstract: In recent years, the Northern Hemisphere has suffered...

Speaker: Lucas Vargas Zeppetello Title: " Simple Models of Land Surface Evaporation: Theory and Applications" Abstract: Observations show the relationship between evaporation and soil moisture generally conforms to a “two regime” framework; namely that...