OCEA 290E: Tropical Climate: Past, Present and Future

Instructors: Patrick Chuang, Andy Moore, Christina Ravelo

Meeting Time: Th, 9 - 12

Meeting Place: D236

Typically, we’ll start with a student leading the discussion on an article related to the topic that was introduced during the previous week. This will sometimes (but not always) be followed by an instructor providing some background material related to the article assigned for the next week.

DATE	Disc. Leader	Discussion TOPIC	Instructor	Probable Short Lecture TOPIC (to prepare for subsequent week)
Apr 3			Patrick	Large scale energy balance; Hadley circ. Lecture Slides
Apr 10	Chris	Large scale cloudiness Reading #1 Reading #2 Chris’ slides	Patrick	Cloud microphysics Lecture Slides – clouds
Apr 17	Dee	Tropical Clouds Reading #1 Glossary of Terms	Patrick	Cloud microphysics & convection Lecture Slides - convection
Apr 24	Travis	Atm – Oce Heat Transport Reading: Held, 2001	Andy	ENSO basic features and dynamics Lecture Slides
May 1	Heidi	ENSO basic features and dynamics Wang&Picaut, 2004	Andy	MJO & other tropical disturbances Lecture Slides Quikscat movie
May 8	Jeff	MJO & other tropical disturbances Zhang, 2005	Andy	Nature of ENSO variability Lecture Slides
May 15	Justin	Nature of ENSO variability McPhaden&Zhang, 2002 McPhaden&Zhang, 2004	Christina	Tropical Paleoclimatology
May 22	Kelsey	Tropical Paleoclimatology Cobb et al., 2003 Rodbell et al., 1999	Christina	Tropical Paleoclimatology See Lea, 2004
May 29	Jon	Tropical Climate – past and future Barreiro&Philander, 2008	Christina	Tropical role in NH Glaciation See Huybers&Molnar, 2007
June 5		Future tropical climate Hansen et al., 2006 Vecchi&Soden, 2007	Christina