Fall 2018: Orbital theory of climate change

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September 18, 2:30-4:00 pm, Clark 331 (WHOI) & 54-827 (MIT)

Required Reading:

Hays J., Imbrie J., and Shackleton N., Variations in the Earth's orbit: Pacemaker of the Ice Ages, Science, 194, 1121-1132, 1976 pdf



September 25, 2:30-4:00 pm, Clark 331 (WHOI) & 54-827 (MIT)

Required Reading:

Imbrie J. and Imbrie J. Z., Modeling the climatic response to orbital variations, Science, 207, 943-953, 1980 pdf

Sections 1 to 2.4 included of Paillard D., Glacial cycles: Toward a new paradigm, Reviews of Geophysics, 39, 325-346, 2001 pdf



October 2, 2:30-4:00 pm, Clark 331 (WHOI) & 54-824 (MIT)

Required Reading:

Petit et al., Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica, Nature, 399, 429-436, 1999 pdf

Suggested Reading:

Keeling R., The atmospheric oxygen cycle: The oxygen isotopes of atmospheric CO2 and O2 and the O2/N2 ratio, Reviews in Geophysics, supplement, 1253-1262, 1995 pdf



October 16, 2:30-4:00 pm, Clark 331 (WHOI) & 54-827 (MIT)

Required Reading:

Lectures notes on spectral analysis pdf

Suggested Reading:

Notes on time series analysis pdf



October 23, 2:30-4:00 pm, Clark 331 (WHOI) & 54-827 (MIT)

Required Reading:

Wunsch C., The spectral description of climate change including the 100 ky energy, Climate Dynamics, 20, 353-363, 2003 pdf

Wunsch C., Quantitative estimate of the Milankovitch-forced contribution to observed Quaternary climate change, Quaternary Science Reviews, 23, 1001-1012, 2004 pdf



October 30, 2:30-4:00 pm, Clark 331 (WHOI) & 54-827 (MIT)

Required Reading:

Huybers P., Glacial variability over the last two million years: An extended depth-derived age model, continuous obliquity pacing, and the Pleistocene progression, Quaternary Science Reviews, 26, 37-55, 2007 pdf

Raymo M. and Huybers P., Unlocking the mysteries of the ice ages, Nature, 451, 284-285, 2008 pdf

Suggested Reading:

Huybers P., Combined obliquity and precession pacing of late Pleistocene deglaciations, Nature, 480, 229-232, 2011 pdf



November 6, 2:30-4:00 pm, Clark 331 (WHOI) & 54-827 (MIT)

Required Reading:

Kawamura K. et al., Northern hemisphere forcing of climatic cycles in Antarctica over the past 360,000 years, Nature, 448, 912-917 pdf (supplementary information pdf)

Huybers P., Antarctica's orbital beat, Science, 325, 1085-1086, 2009 pdf

Suggested Reading:

Bender M., Orbital tuning chronology for the Vostok climate record supported by trapped gas composition, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 204, 275-289, 2002 pdf



November 13, 2:30-4:00 pm, Clark 331 (WHOI) & 54-827 (MIT)

Required Reading:

Marshall J. and Speer K., Closure of the meridional overturning circulation through Southern Ocean upwelling, Nature Geoscience, 5, 171-180, 2012 pdf

Rintoul S., The Southern Ocean in the Earth System, in Science Diplomacy: Antarctica, Science, and the Governance of International Spaces, P. Berkman et al. (eds.), Smithnosian Institution Scholarly Press, Washington D.C., p. 175-187, 2011 pdf



November 20, 2:30-4:00 pm, Clark 331 (WHOI) & 54-827 (MIT)

Required Reading:

Martinez-Garcia et al., Links between iron supply, marine productivity, sea surface temperature, and CO2 over the last 1.1 Ma, Paleoceanography. 24, PA1207, doi: 10.1029/2008PA001657, 2009 pdf

Background Reading:

Fischer et al., The role of Southern Ocean processes in  orbital and millennial CO2 variations - A synthesis, Quaternary Science Reviews, 29, 193-205, 2010 pdf



November 27, 2:30-4:00 pm, Clark 331 (WHOI) & 54-827 (MIT)

Required Reading:

PALEOSENS Project Members, Making sense of palaeoclimate sensivity, Nature, 491, 683-691, 2012 pdf (suppementary information pdf)



December 4, 2:30-4:00 pm, Clark 331 (WHOI) & 54-827 (MIT)

Required Reading:

Cunningham et al., Temporal variability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation at 26.5N, Science, 317, 935-938, 2007 pdf (supplementary material pdf)

Vallis G., Climate and the oceans, Princeton Primers in Climate, Princeton University Press, 231 pp., 2012 (chapter 4 "The Ocean Circulation" pdf)



 

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