Instructor : Uma Bhatt (x 2662, usbhatt@alaska.edu)

Meeting Time: 3:00-4:00 p.m. on Friday in Akasofu 319

Class Syllabus available in pdf, here.

Meeting Overview: This class evolved from an informal meeting for researchers and graduate students to discuss their latest raw results. This semester the class will read/discuss 'The Warming Papers ' and will focus on building our (students and faculty) presentation skills.

Student presentations are encouraged even if you are not registered for the classand everyone is welcome to come, ask questions and throw tomatoes.

Key papers on this topic:

1. Easterling, D. R.; Wehner, M. F. Is the climate warming or cooling? Geophys Res Lett 2009, 36, L08706.
2. Kaufmann, R. K.; Kauppi, H.; Mann, M. L.; Stock, J. H. Reconciling anthropogenic climate change with observed temperature 1998–2008. P Natl Acad Sci USA 2011, 108, 11790–11793.
3. Solomon, S.; Daniel, J. S.; Neely, R. R.; Vernier, J. P.; Dutton, E. G.; Thomason, L. W. The Persistently Variable “Background” Stratospheric Aerosol Layer and Global Climate Change. Science 2011, 333, 866–870.
4. Meehl, G. A.; Arblaster, J. M.; Fasullo, J. T.; Hu, A.; Trenberth, K. E. Model-based evidence of deep-ocean heat uptake during surface-temperature hiatus periods. Nature Climate Change 2011, 1, 360–364.
5. Foster, G.; Rahmstorf, S. Global temperature evolution 1979–2010. Environ Res Lett 2011, 6, 044022.
6. Levitus, S.; Antonov, J. I.; Boyer, T. P.; Baranova, O. K.; Garcia, H. E.; Locarnini, R. A.; Mishonov, A. V.; Reagan, J. R.; Seidov, D.; Yarosh, E. S.; Zweng, M. M. World ocean heat content and thermosteric sea level change (0-2000 m), 1955-2010. Geophys Res Lett 2012, 39, n/a–n/a.
7. Estrada, F.; Perron, P.; Martínez-López, B. Statistically derived contributions of diverse human influences to twentieth-century temperature changes. Nat Geosci 2013.
8. Trenberth, K. E.; Fasullo, J. T. An apparent hiatus in global warming? Earth's Future 2013.
9. Guemas, V. Retrospective prediction of the global warming slowdown in the past decade. Nature Climate Change 2013, 3, 649–653.
10. Meehl, G. A.; Hu, A.; Arblaster, J.; Fasullo, J.; Trenberth, K. E. Externally forced and internally generated decadal climate variability associated with the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation. Journal of Climate 2013, 130408111212000.
11. Balmaseda, M. A.; Trenberth, K. E.; Källén, E. Distinctive climate signals in reanalysis of global ocean heat content. Geophys Res Lett 2013, 40, 1754–1759.
12. Watanabe, M.; Kamae, Y.; Yoshimori, M.; Oka, A.; Sato, M.; Ishii, M.; Mochizuki, T.; Kimoto, M. Strengthening of ocean heat uptake efficiency associated with the recent climate hiatus. Geophys Res Lett 2013, 40, 3175–3179.
13. Abraham, J. P.; Baringer, M.; Bindoff, N. L.; Boyer, T.; Cheng, L. J.; Church, J. A.; Conroy, J. L.; Domingues, C. M.; Fasullo, J. T.; Gilson, J.; Goni, G.; Good, S. A.; Gorman, J. M.; Gouretski, V.; Ishii, M.; Johnson, G. C.; Kizu, S.; Lyman, J. M.; Macdonald, A. M.; Minkowycz, W. J.; Moffitt, S. E.; Palmer, M. D.; Piola, A. R.; Reseghetti, F.; Schuckmann, K.; Trenberth, K. E.; Velicogna, I.; Willis, J. K. A review of global ocean temperature observations: Implications for ocean heat content estimates and climate change. Reviews of Geophysics 2013.
14. Kosaka, Y.; Xie, S.-P. Recent global-warming hiatus tied to equatorial Pacific surface cooling. Nature 2013, 1–14.
15. Fyfe, J. C.; Gillett, N. P.; Zwiers, F. W. Overestimated global warming over the past 20 years. Nature Climate Change 2013, 3, 767–769.
16. Li, J.; Sun, C.; Jin, F.-F. NAO implicated as a predictor of Northern Hemisphere mean temperature multidecadal variability. Geophys Res Lett 2013, 40, 5497–5502.
17. Pretis, F.; Allen, M. Breaks in trends. Nat Geosci 2013, 1–2.
18. Haywood, J. M.; Jones, A.; Jones, G. S. The impact of volcanic eruptions in the period 2000-2013 on global mean temperature trends evaluated in the HadGEM2-ES climate model. Atmos. Sci. Lett. 2013.

Course Outline: Meeting Dates with Suggested Topics, can be edited if new papers come out.