Fall 2016: Temperature over the past Millennium

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September 13, 2:30-4:00, Clark 271

Required Reading:

Roemmich et al., 135 years of global ocean warming between the Challenger expedition and the Argo Programme, Nature Climate Change, 1 April 12, doi: 10.1038/NCLIMATE1461, 2012 pdf

Supplementary Reading:

pp. 159-163 and 187-201 of Hartman et al., Observations: Atmosphere and Surface, in Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Stocker et al., eds.), Cambridge U. Press, Cambridge, U.K. and New york, USA, https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg1/WG1AR5_Chapter02_FINAL.pdf

pp. 255-265 and 266-267 (FAQ 3.1) of Rhein et al., Observations: Ocean, in Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Stocker et al., eds.), Cambridge U. Press, Cambridge, U.K. and New york, USA, https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg1/WG1AR5_Chapter03_FINAL.pdf

Power Point Presentation: ppt



September 20, 2:30-4:00, Clark 271

Required Reading:

Mann M. et al., Global signatures and dynamical origins of the Little Ice Age and Medieval Climate Anomaly, Science, 326, 1256-1260, 2009 pdf (supplementary material pdf)

Supplementary Reading:

Jones P., and Mann M., Climate over past millennia, Reviews of Geophysics, 42, 1-42, 2004 pdf

Notes on the methodology in Mann et al. (2009) pdf



September 27, 2:30-4:00, Clark 271

For this class, Andrew Solow (MPC, WHOI) will discuss some of the statistical aspects in climate field reconstruction. The following paper provides a general background:

Required Reading:

Smerdon J. and Pollack H., Reconstructing Earth's surface temperature over the past 2000 years: The science behing the headlines, WIREs Climate Change, doi: 10.1002/wcc.418, 2016 pdf



October 4, 2:30-4:00, Clark 271

Required Reading:

Solomina et al., Glacier fluctuations during the past 2000 years, Quaternary Science Reviews, 149, 61-90, 2016 pdf

Supplementary Reading:

pp.  319-320 and pp. 335-346 of Vaughan et al., Observations: Cryosphere, in Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Stocker et al., eds.), Cambridge U. Press, Cambridge, U.K. and New york, USA pdf



October 18, 2:30-4:00, Clark 271

Required Reading:

Sigl et al., Timing and climate forcing of volcanic eruptions for the past 2,500 years, Nature, vol. 23, doi:10.1038/nature14565, 2015 pdf (supplementary material pdf)



October 25, 2:30-4:00, Clark 271

Required Reading:

Delaygue G. and Bard E., An Antarctic view of beryllium-10 and solar activity for the past millennium, Climate Dynamics, 36, 2201-2218, 2011 pdf

Introduction of Gray et al., Solar influences on climate, Reviews of Geophysics, 48, 1-53, 2010 pdf



November 1, 2:30-4:00, Clark 271

Required Reading:

Lund D., Lynch-Stieglitz J., and Curry W., Gulf Stream density structure and transport during the past millemmium, Nature, 444, 601-604, 2006 pdf

Suppementary Reading:

A few words about ocean dynamics pdf



November 8, 2:30-4:00, Clark 271

Required Reading:

Knudsen et al., Evidence for external forcing of the Atlantic multidecadal Oscillation since termination of the Little Ice Age, Nature Communications, doi: 10.1038/ncomms4323, 2014 pdf

Supplementary Reading:

Deser et al., Sea surface temperature variability: Patterns and mechanisms, Annual Review of Marine Science, 2, 115-143, 2010 pdf



November 15, 2:30-4:00, Clark 271

Required Reading:

Kemp et al., Sea-level change during the last 2500 years in New Jersey, USA, Quaternary Science Reviews, 81, 90-104, 2013 pdf



November 22, 2:30-4:00, Clark 271

Required Reading:

Miettinen et al., Exceptional ocean surface conditions on the SE Greenland shelf during the Medieval Climate Anomaly, Paleoceanography, 30, 1657-1674, 2015 pdf (supplementary information pdf)

Suppementary Reading:

Dahl-Jensen et al., Past temperatures directly from the Greenland ice sheet, Science, 282, 268-271, 1998 pdf



November 29, 2:30-4:00, Clark 271

Required Reading:

Sachs et al., Southward movement of the Pacific intertropical convergence zone AD 1400-1850, Nature geoscience, 2, 519-525, 2009 pdf (supplementary information pdf)

Supplementary Reading:

Sachse et al., Molecular paleohydrology: Interpreting the hydrogen-isotopic composition of lipid biomarkers from photosynthsizing organisms, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science, 40, 221-249, 2012 pdf



December 6, 2:30-4:00, Clark 271

Required Reading:

Yan et al., Dynamics of the intertropical convergence zone over the western Pacific during the Little Ice Age, Nature geoscience, 8, 315-320, 2015 pdf (supplementary information pdf)

Supplementary Reading:

World Climate Research Programme, The global monsoon systems pdf

Zhisheng et al., Global monsoon dynamics and climate change, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science, 43, 29-77, 2015 pdf



December 13, 2:30-4:00, Clark 271

Required Reading:

Artwood at el., Quantifying climate forcing and feedbacks over the last millennium in the CMIP5-PMIP3 models, Journal of Climate, 29, 1161-1178, 2016 pdf (supplementary information pdf)



 

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