PPT-Causes of Tropical Circulation Variability

Peter Brandt Marcus Dengler Rebecca Hummels Josefine Herrford Large Scale Thermohaline Circulation 2 Kuhlbrodt et al 2007 RACE Contribution to AMOC Observing System Denmark Strait Overflow. Earth System Sensitivities. Peter Cox. Professor of Climate System Dynamics. University of Exeter. How can we constrain . long-term Earth System Projections . using short-term Observations ?. Climate Sensitivity to Doubling CO. E. valuate the impacts of tropical . c. yclones on the integrated sea- surface chlorophyll in the subtropical North Atlantic. Approach. Use 14 years of tropical cyclone track data and satellite chlorophyll data for the period 1998-2011 . ful. misconceptions. Roger K. Smith . . . . .. LMU . Munich. In collaboration with:. Michael . Montgomery . . . . NPS Monterey. John . Persing. . . . . . .. NPS . Monterey. How do tropical cyclones intensify?. 10 years of AMOC measurements from the RAPID program and a view to the future. Gerard McCarthy, Darren . Rayner. , Ivan . Haigh. , Joel . Hirschi. and David . Smeed. . National Oceanography Centre. reporter : Lin . Ching. Based on . Dunkerton, T. J., M. T. Montgomery, and Z. Wang, 2009: Tropical . cyclogenesis. in a tropical wave critical layer: Easterly waves. . Atmos. Chem. Phys.. , . 9. , 5587–5646.. Introduction to the physical climate system. Oliver . Elison. . Timm. . ATM 306 Fall 2016. Lecture 1. Atmospheric Circulation. Objectives. Objectives. The general circulation of the atmosphere. Winds and pressure systems. Bureau . of Meteorology – R&D Branch. Regional characteristics of tropical expansion and the role of climate variability. Observations vs Models. Observed rate in many metrics is 0.5 – 1.0 degrees/decade of expansion. For more details, see: Andrews et al. (2010) GRL and Ming and Ramaswamy (2010) GRL which build on work by Gregory and Webb (2008) J Clim.. Δ. T. Δ. P(. Δ. T). Δ. P(. Δ. F-. Δ. Fs. ). Fast response to forcing. Zonal Structure of the MJO. (Figure obtained from Ch. 4 of . An Introduction to Tropical Meteorology. , 2. nd. Edition. © . 2016 COMET.). MJO Impacts on Tropical Cyclones. (Figure obtained from Ch. 4 of . HiGEM. Ray Bell. Supervisors: Prof. Pier Luigi Vidale, Dr. Kevin Hodges and Dr. Jane Strachan. Introduction. Motivation. Socio-economic impacts and changing risk with climate change. . Impacts on the climate system, removing heat and moisture from the ocean affecting large scale circulation.. SO 442 . – . Tropical Meteorology. Space and time-scales of dynamical atmospheric processes. SOURCE: UCAR. Climate. : PDO. Years. : ENSO. Seasons:. Monsoons. Months/Weeks:. MJO. Atmospheric Scales of Motion. Oliver Elison Timm ATM 306 Fall 2016. Information. ATM 306 . ES 232. Schedule. Monday, Wednesday. 11:00am-12:20pm. Office hours:. Mon 12:30-1:30pm. Thu 9:15-10:15am. Or by appointment. Contact. oelisontimm@albany.edu. Swift. -BAT blazars with . NICER. Sergio Mundo, Richard . Mushotzky. University of Maryland, College Park. MARLAM 9, JHU, Baltimore, MD. Blazar characteristics. Radio-loud AGN with jet aligned close to line of sight. ---Focus on zonal mean here (can apply to zonal inhomogeneities too). ---Apply to simulated response to external forcing in coupled climate models. 4XCO. 2. , Last Glacial Maximum, Mid-Holocene, Freshwater hosing .