Chris Brierley - Presentations | UCL Department of Geography - UCL

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Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Biology and Paleo Environment Seminars Bristol, 8th September 2014 - "Pliocene Tropical Dynamics"

AGU Fall Meeting, December 2013 - "Pliocene climate: fleeting past or a blueprint for the future", GC53C-03, Contribution to the session Understanding 400 ppm Climate: Past, Present and Future.
The role of oceans in climate uncertainty (.pdf), BIRS workshop, Banff, CA, October 2013 - "Could slab model emulation be a useful tool in ocean uncertainty quantification?"
2nd workshop on Pliocene climate (.pdf), Bristol, September 2013 - "Patterns of early Pliocene warmth: testing potential mechanisms"
4th WGNE workshop (.pdf) on systematic errors in weather and climate models, Met. Office, April 2013. "Simple measures of structural climate change"

University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences, November 2012 - "Measurement and mechanisms of a structural climate change in the Early Pliocene" - in the Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Seminar Series
University of Nottingham, Geography, November 2012 - "Structural climate change and the Early Pliocene" - Physical Geography Seminars
London Palaeoclimate Group (.pdf), November 2012 - "An Introduction to PMIP3"
University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences, November 2012 - "Lessons from the warm Early Pliocene" - in the Global Change Seminar Series
Imperial College London, Physics, October 2012 - "Structural Climate Change" - in the Space & Atmosphere Physics Seminar Series.
EGU Spring Meeting (.pdf), April 2012 - "Can inter-ocean gateways explain long-term cooling since the early Pliocene?", EGU2012-5484, Poster in Session CL4.2/OS1.3
- Also presented at Palaeoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project, Phase 3 Workshop at Crewe, May 2012
University of Bristol (.pdf), Geography, April 2012 - "Equatorial Temperature Gradients and Human Evolution"
- Also presented as subsidiary talk at Brown University, March 2012
Brown University (.pdf), Geological Sciences, March 2012 - "Beyond conventional climate sensitivity: understanding early Pliocene warmth"
- Also presented at University of Exeter, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, May 2012, in a modified form.

University College London, Geography, November 2011 - "Ice Age Tropical Cyclones" - in the Physical Geography Seminar Series
University of Massachusetts (.pps), Amherst, Geosciences, June 2011 - "Comparing hypotheses for Pliocene tropical warmth"
University of Southern California (.pps), Earth Sciences, April 2011 - "Better climate predictions using hindsight"

AGU Fall Meeting (.pdf), December 2010 - "The relative role of temperature gradients in the Pliocene climate", PP11G-03, Invited contribution to the session The Early Pliocene Warm Period as an Analog for Future Warmth.
AGU Fall Meeting (.pdf), December 2010 - "Tropical Cyclones at the Last Glacial Maximum" Poster in session GC51G
Luncheon with the Postdocs (.pdf), Yale Geology & Geophysics, April 2010 - "Vertical Mixing and the Ocean Circulation"
Ocean Sciences (.pdf), 2010 - "Extratropical Hurricane Mixing and the Equatorial Cold Tongue", PO45W-04 in the session Theory and Modeling of the Equatorial Ocean. Also presented at the Department of Energy meeting in Gaithersburg in April 2010.

AGU Fall Meeting (.pdf), 2009 - "Understanding Weak Low-Latitude SST Gradients and the Ocean Warm Pool Expansion in the Early Pliocene", PP11G-08 in the session The heat is on: past, present and future climate change in the Indo-Pacific warm pool.
University of Michigan (.pdf) Geological Sciences, Seminar, November 2009 - "Tropical Cyclones and the climate of the Pliocene"
Ocean-Atmosphere Energy Transport workshop (.pdf), Caltech, November 2009 - "Extratropical Mixing, Ocean Temperatures and Heat Transport". Poster
Graduate School of Oceanography (.pdf) at University of Rhode Island, Invited Seminar, July 2009 - "Implications of the Vast Pliocene Warmpool"
Yale's (.pdf) Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics group, March 2009 - "Temperature Gradients and Glaciation"

Yale's (.pdf) Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics group, October 2008 - "The Curious Case of the Pliocene Climate"
Pliocene Model Intercomparison Workshop (.pdf), June 2008 - "Greatly Expanded Warmpool and the onset of Glacial Cycles". Poster
Pliocene Model Intercomparison Workshop (.pdf), June 2008 - "Greatly expanded warmpool, permanent El Nino and weaker Hadley circulation in the early Pliocene". Oral presentation given on behalf of Alexey Fedorov

AGU Fall Meeting December 2007 - "Permanent El Nino Conditions and the Meridional Expansion of the Tropical Ocean Warm-Water Pool in the Early Pliocene: Modeling Global Impacts with an Atmospheric GCM". Poster: PP43C-1531
Luncheon with the Postdocs (.pdf), 2007 - "Ensembles, Uncertainty and Climate Projections"

Departmental Seminar (.pdf), Uni. of Reading, June 2006. "Ocean Model Uncertainty"
Chapa Club (.pdf) 2006 - "Spatial Patterns of Climate Change in HadCM3"
- This presents the ensemble mean patterns from my perturbed ocean physics ensemble. The results are the average of year 61-80 from an 1% increase in carbon dioxide, so are centred on the time of CO2 doubling. It has a useful list of references for HadCM3 and climate change in it.
AGU Ocean Sciences (.pdf), 2006 - "Incorporating and Quantifying Ocean Uncertainty in Ensemble Climate Prediction", OS52P-05 in the session on Ocean Convection, Heat Transport and Storage, and Climate.
Reading University's (.pdf) Ocean Research Group 2^nd February 2006 - "The Relative Certainty of Ocean Parameters"

Royal Meteorological Society biennial conference (.pdf), 2005 - "Including Ocean Model Uncertainties in Climate Predictions"
Departmental Poster Session (.pdf), October 2005 - "The effect of Isopycnal Mixing in HadCM3"
Chapa Club (.pdf) October 2005 "Opal Fruits: made to make your mouth water"

Earth System Sciences Summer School, September 2004 - Ocean Model Uncertainty I created this early on, and it describes why ocean model uncertainty exists.

Chris Brierley - Presentations