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 several devastating regional summer weather extremes, such as the European heat wave in 2003, the Russian heat wave and the Indus river flood in Pakistan in 2010, and the heat wave in...

Jan Zika
Senior Lecturer in Mathematics and Climate
University of New South Wales
School of Mathematics and Statistics

Changes in ocean water masses reveal excess heat in the climate system

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Speaker: Dr. Axel Kleidon from Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

Title: "Using thermodynamic limits to infer estimates of climate and global climate change"

Abstract:  Climate is commonly evaluated using observations or highly complex numerical simulation models, yet simple, back-of-the-envelope estimates...

Speaker:  Professor Yuk Yung from CalTech

Title: “Atmospheric Chemical Compounds as Indicators of Air Movements: A Person Perspective and Prospects”

Abstract:

In 1971 James Lovelock (now one of the ~300,000 living centenarians on the planet) wrote a seminal paper entitled, “Atmospheric Fluorine Compounds as Indicators of Air Movements.” He was specifically interested in fluorine...