ATOC 6020, Fall 2008 — Notes & Calendar
Or, The Ocean Left Colorado 60 Million Years Ago, but Oceanography Didn't! This is a weekly seminar covering topics in oceanography and ocean-focused climate science. Presentations will feature campus and Boulder scientists on notable developments in ocean science. University of Colorado graduate students can enroll in the ATOC 6020 seminar for 1 credit per semester.
Participation is not limited to enrolled students. All interested students (graduate and undergraduate), faculty, researchers, Boulder-area oceanographers, visitors, and alumni are encouraged to attend and present.
You can access the
syllabus,
class notes and calendar,
reading,
and class files.
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.
ATOC6020 Fall 2008 weekly schedule
| 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 (Anderson, Science 1972) | writeups |
| 4 | 9/15: Antonietta Capotondi | ENSO dynamics, and its representation in climate models | Capotondi 2007; Capotondi et al. 2006 | writeups |
| 5 | 9/22: Shang-Ping Xie | The Development and Effects of the Northward-Displaced Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) | Xie (2004) | writeups |
| 6 | 9/29: Gary Wick | Multi-Sensor Satellite Retrievals of Sea Surface Temperature | Donlon et al. 2007 | writeups |
| 7 | 10/06: Marika Holland | Rapid Arctic Sea Ice Loss | Serreze et al. '07; Holland et al. '06 | writeups |
| 8 | 10/13: Dax Matthews | Estimation of Wind-Driven Ocean Velocities in the California Current System | | writeups |
| 9 | 10/20: Mike Alexander | Mixed Layer Ocean Dynamics and its Impact on Climate Variability | Alexander et al. 2000; Cassou et al. 2007 | writeups |
| 10 | 10/27: Gokhan Danabasoglu | Sensitivity of the Meridional Overturning Circulation | Rahmstorf 2006; Danabasoglu 2008 | writeups |
| 11 | 11/03: Stephen Yeager | Addressing the Gulf Stream Problem in the 1 Degree POP Model | Zhang & Vallis 2007 | writeups |
| 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 | writeups |
| 13 | 11/17: Frank Bryan | Tracer based ages, transit time distributions, and water mass composition | Haine & Hall 02; Waugh, Hall & Haine 03 | writeups |
| 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 | writeups |
| 16 | 12/08: AGU Fall Meeting Student Practice Talks | Featuring: L. Trenary (12m Talk), S. Dorsi (Poster), S. Stevenson (Poster) | | |