EPS 290, Topics in Atmospheric Dynamics, Fall 2020

Overview

This course covers current and classic papers in atmospheric dynamics with an eye towards aiding students involved in graduate-level research projects.

Time

Wednesdays at 9:30

Location

377 McCone Hall

Syllabus

8/26, Katie leads

• Jagermeyr et al., A regional nuclear conflict would compromise global food security, PNAS, 2020

9/2, Rusen leads

• Rice, Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis, 1995, 15.1 through to the end of 15.2.3

9/9, Katie leads

• Becerra-Valdivia and Higham, The timing and effect of the earliest human arrivals in North America, Nature, 2020

9/16, Katie leads

• Hahn et al., Antarctic elevation drives hemispheric asymmetry in polar lapse rate climatology and feedback, GRL, 2020

9/23, Yi-Chuan leads

• Socolow et al., Direct Air Capture of CO2 with Chemicals, APS, Chapter 1, 2011

9/30, Alec leads

• Frederikse et al., The causes of sea-level rise since 1900, Nature, 2020

10/7, Rusen leads

• MacDougall et al., Is there warming in the pipeline? A multi-model analysis of the Zero Emissions Commitment from CO2, Biogeosciences, 2020

10/14, Nathaniel leads

• Westerhold, An astronomically dated record of Earth's climate and its predictability over the last 66 million years, Science, 2020

10/21, Yi-Chuan leads

• Zeppetello and Battisti, Projected increases in monthly midlatitude summertime temperature variance over land are driven by local thermodynamics, GRL, 2020

11/4, Nathaniel leads

• Riahi et al., The Shared Socioeconomic Pathways and their energy, land use, and greenhouse gas emissions implications: An overview, GEC, 2017

11/18, Yi-Chuan leads

• Chemke and Ming, Large atmospheric waves will get stronger while small waves will get weaker by the end of the 21st century, GRL, 2020

12/2, Nathaniel leads

• Wu et al., Seismic ocean thermometry, Science, 2020

12/16, Alec leads

• Farrell and Clark, On postglacial sea level, GJI, 1976