Chris Brierley - Presentations

Search here for a list of presentations by Professor Chris Brierley.

2014

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

2013

• 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"

2012

• 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.

2011

• 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"

2010

• 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.

2009

• 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"

2008

• 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

2007

• 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"

2006

• 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"

2005

• 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"

2004

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