ATM 620 Climate Journal Club (1 CR)
Spring 2011
Focus: Ways to Analyze Data

 

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

Meeting Time: 3:30-4:30 p.m. on Friday in IARC 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 focus on current topics of general interest in Atmospheric Science and will focus on building our (students and faculty) presentation skills.

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

 

Course Outline: Meeting Dates with Topics

DATE

TOPIC

21 Jan. 2011

class#1

Paper discussion: No Meeting because Uma is at a local meeting.

28 Jan. 2011

class#2

Paper Discussion: Weatherhead, E., et al., Changes in weather persistence: Insight from Inuit knowledge. Global Environ. Change (2011), doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.02.002.

 

4Feb. 2011

class#3

Paper Discussion: Arrhenius, S., 1896: On the influence of carbonic acid in the air upon the temperature of the ground. Phil. Mag. 41, 237–279., pdf.

11 Feb. 2011

class#4

Paper Discussion: pdf. Neff, W.D., 1988: Observations of Comples Terrain Flows Using Acoustic Sounders: Echo Interpretation. Boundary Layer Meteorology, 42, 207-228.,

18 Feb. 2011

class#5

Paper Discussion: DeGaetano, Arthur T., Timothy J. Brown, Steven D. Hilberg, Kelly Redmond, Kevin Robbins, Peter Robinson, Martha Shulski, Marjorie McGuirk, 2010: Toward Regional Climate Services: The Role of NOAA's Regional Climate Centers. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 91, 1633–1644. doi: 10.1175/2010BAMS2936.1, pdf.

25 Feb. 2011

class#6

Paper Discussion: Min, S.-K., X. Zhang, et al. (2011). "Human contribution to more-intense precipitation extremes." Nature 470(7334): 378-381. pdf.

4 Mar. 2011

class#7

Paper Discussion: Cassano, E. N., A. H. Lynch, et al. (2006). "Classification of synoptic patterns in the western Arctic associated with extreme events at Barrow, Alaska, USA." Climate Research 30(2): 83-97. pdf.

11 Mar. 2011

Paper Discussion: No Meeting because Uma is at a local meeting.

18 Mar. 2011

class#8

NO meeting on Friday because it is Spring Break!

25 Mar. 2011

class#9

No meeting this week.

1 Apr. 2011

class#10

No meeting this week.

8 Apr. 2011

class#11

Paper Discussion: PAGES Newsletter dedicated to teh Medieval Climate Anomaly, March 2011, link to pdf

Suggested readings 1) Editorial (page 4), 2) Solar variability durient the past 1200 years (page 5-6), 3) Climate reorganization (page 9-10), and 4) Medieval Hydrocliamte (page 10-12).

15 Apr. 2011
class#12

WERC Seminar:Link to the WERC seminar:

http://ine.uaf.edu/werc/seminars/15-April-2011/

22 Apr. 2011

Paper Discussion:Compo, G. et al., 2011: The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project. Quarterly J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc., 137, 1-28. DOI: 10.1002/qj.776. pdf.

29 Apr. 2011

class#13

NO meeting Friday Fling

6 May 2011

class#14

Paper discussion: No Meeting because Uma is out of town.

Paper Discussion: Milionis, A. E. and Davies, T. D. (1992), A five-year climatology of elevated inversions at Hemsby (UK). International Journal of Climatology, 12: 205–215. doi: 10.1002/joc.3370120209, pdf.

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