Class Meetings and Notes

All meetings will be in Duane E126 at 4PM on Mondays, unless noted

Registered students are required to email a writeup of each talk to me by Friday at 7PM. The writeups should include a summary, strengths, weaknesses, and brainstorming sections.
Week Speaker Links & Presentation Slides Reading Writeups
1 Mon 8/25 4PM: STAD 255-12
Organizational Meeting
Syllabus
2 9/01: Labor Day
3 9/08: Baylor Fox-Kemper We've Got Navier-Stokes, So Why Aren't We Done? More Is Different here
4 9/15: Antonietta Capotondi
ENSO dynamics, and its representation in climate models Capotondi, 2007
Capotondi et al., 2006
here
5 9/22: Shang-Ping Xie
The Development and Effects of the Northward-Displaced Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) Xie (2004) here
6 9/29: Gary Wick Multi-Sensor Satellite Retrievals of Sea Surface Temperature Donlon et al, 2007 here
7 10/06: Marika Holland
Rapid Arctic Sea Ice Loss Serreze et al., '07
Holland et al., '06
here
8 10/13: Dax Matthews Estimation of Wind-Driven Ocean Velocities in the California Current System here
9 10/20: Mike Alexander
Mixed Layer Ocean Dynamics and its Impact on Climate Variability Alexander et al., 2000
Cassou et al., 2007
here
10 10/27: Gokhan Danabasoglu Sensitivity of the Meridional Overturning Circulation Rahmstorf, 2006
Danabasoglu, 2008
here
12 11/03: Stephen Yeager Addressing the Gulf Stream Problem in the 1 Degree POP Model Zhang & Vallis, 2007 here
12 11/10: Scott Lehman, Tom Marchitto Marine Radiocarbon Evidence for the Mechanism of Deglacial Atmospheric CO2 Rise Marchitto et al. 07, Keeling's comments here
13 11/17: Frank Bryan Tracer based ages, transit time distributions, and water mass composition: Observational and computational examples Haine & Hall 02
Waugh, Hall & Haine 03
here
14 11/24: Fall Break
Fall Break Fall Break Fall Break
15 12/01: Weiqing Han
Seasonal Surface Ocean Circulation and Dynamics in the Philippine Archipelago Region Godfrey 89, Qu et al 06 here
16 12/08: AGU Fall Meeting Student Practice Talks
Featuring: L. Trenary (12m Talk), S. Dorsi (Poster), S. Stevenson (Poster)