CICAR

Abrupt Climate Change Studies

 Symposium
21-23 May 2013 

 

Columbia University Lamont Campus Monell Building Auditorium

 

Climate Change: Recent Discoveries and Future Challenges

 
 
 

Day 1 - Tuesday
 
8:30 – 9:00
Morning refreshment
 
  • Yochanan Kushnir – Welcome
 
  • Peter Schlosser – Opening Remarks

Session 1
 
9:00 – 9:05 A.M.
Ocean Change
 
Conveners: R. Anderson, A. Gordon, & W. Smethie
9:05 – 9:30
  • Syd Levitus: Ocean Heat Content
9:30 – 9:55
  • Jerry Mitrovica: Leaving Eustasy Behind: Implications for Marine Ice Sheet Stability and Inferences of Ancient Ice Volumes
9:55 – 10:20
  • Lynne Talley: Closure Of The Global Overturning Circulation Through The Indian, Pacific And Southern Oceans
Coffee break
 
10:40 – 11:05
  • Martin Visbeck: Two Aspects Of Global Ocean Dynamics: AMOC Observations At The Exit Of The Labrador Sea And Southern Ocean Eddies
11:05 – 11:30
  • Janet Sprintall: The Role Of Tropical Interocean Exchange Of The Indonesian Throughflow In Climate Variability
11:30 – 11:55
  • Arnold Gordon: The Ocean Has Floods And Droughts Too, You Know
11:55 – 12:30
Q & A Roundtable
 
 
12:30 – 1:45 P.M.
Lunch on your own
 
 

Session 2
 
1:45 – 1:55
Hydroclimate Variability
 
Conveners: E. Cook, Y. Kushnir, & R. Seager
1:55 – 2:20
  • Richard Seager: Mechanisms Of Hydroclimate Change Under Global Warming
2:20 – 2:45
  • William Boos: Thermodynamic Scaling Of The Hydrological Cycle Of The Last Glacial Maximum
2:45 – 3:10
  • David Battisti: Precessional Forcing, Monsoons, and Isotopic Composition of Precipitation
Coffee break
 
3:30 – 3:55
  • John Chiang: Extratropical Cooling, Interhemispheric Thermal Gradients, And Tropical Climate Change
3:55 – 4:20
  • Aaron Putnam: Hydroclimate Of The Tarim Basin, Western China, Over The Past Millennium: Clues From The Deep Desert
4:20 – 4:45
  • Ed Cook: The Role Of Paleo-Drought Atlases In Climate Change Research
4:45 – 5:15
Q & A Roundtable
5:15 – 6:30

Evening poster session and reception

  • Keynote speaker: Wally Broecker: What Drives Glaciation?
 
 

Day 2 - Wednesday
 
8:30 – 9:00
Morning refreshment

Session 3
 
9:00 – 9:05 A.M.
Cryosphere Change
 
Conveners: R. Bell, D. Martinson & J. Schaefer
9:05 – 9:30
  • Garry Clarke: The 21st Century Warming And The Deglaciation Of Western Canada
9:30 – 9:55
  • Beata Csatho: The Stability of the Greenland Ice Sheet
9:55 – 10:20
  • Robin Bell: Water Beneath Ice Sheets: Changing Paleoclimate Records Changing Ice Flow
Coffee break
 
10:40 – 11:05
  • Eric Steig: The Role Of The Tropical Pacific In Climate Change And Ice Dynamics In Antarctica On Decadal To Millennial Timescales
11:05 – 11:30
  • Doug Martinson: Changes In Antarctic Marine Glaciers, Sea Ice, And The Underlying Ocean
11:30 – 11:55
  • Joerg Schaefer / Summer Rupper: Climate And Mountain Glacier Change Through The Holocene To Present Day
11:55 – 12:30
Q & A Roundtable
 
 
12:30 – 1:45 P.M.
Lunch on your own
 
 

Session 4
 
1:45 – 1:55
Climate Forcing
 
Conveners: G. Winckler, M. Previdi, & J. Smerdon
 
1:55 – 2:20
  • Andreas Schmittner: Climate Sensitivity Estimated From Paleoclimate Data
2:20 – 2:45
  • David Archer: CO2 vs Methane
2:45 – 3:10
  • Lorenzo Polvani: Stratospheric Ozone and Southern Hemisphere Climate Change
Coffee break
 
3:30 – 3:55
  • Gavin Schmidt: Last Millennium Forcings And Responses
3:55 – 4:20
  • Gisela Winckler/ Ron Miller: Aerosol Forcing or Aerosol Feedback?
4:20 – 4:45
  • Mike Previdi: How Will Atmospheric Moisture Transport From Ocean To Land Change With Anthropogenic Climate Change?
4:45 – 5:15
Q & A Roundtable
5:15 – 6:30

Evening poster session and reception

  • Keynote speaker: Peter Molnar: Orographic Controls On Climate And Paleoclimate Of Asia: Thermal And Mechanical Roles For The Tibetan Plateau
 
 

Day 3 - Thursday
 
8:30 – 9:00
Morning refreshment

Session 5
 
9:00 – 9:05 A.M.
Human Perspectives
 
Conveners: M. Cane, P. DeMenocal, & Y. Kushnir
9:05 – 9:30
  • Arlene Fiore: Influence Of Changes In Emissions And Climate On Baseline And Extreme Levels Of Air Pollution
9:30 – 9:55
  • Cynthia Rosenzweig: Science for Hurricane Sandy Recovery
9:55 – 10:20
  • Solomon Hsiang: The Causal Effect of Environmental Catastrophe on Long Run Economic Growth
Coffee break
 
10:40 – 11:05
  • Kris Karnauskas: The Hadley Circulation: Dynamics, Asymmetry, and CMIP5 Projections
11:05 – 11:30
  • Connie Woodhouse: A Paleoclimatic Perspective on Water Resource Vulnerability in the Western US
11:30 – 11:55
  • Kim Knowlton: Climate Change & Health: Connecting The Dots
11:55 – 12:20 P.M.
  • Lisa Goddard: Beyond Climate Predictions
12:20 – 1:00
Q & A Roundtable and closing remarks
 
1:00
 
Lunch
 
 

Welcome

The Cooperative Institute for Climate Applications and Research (CICAR) was established in November 2003 as a research partnership between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Columbia University In The City of New York. The CICAR research themes are: (1) modeling, understanding, prediction, and assessment of climate variability and change; (2) development, collection, analysis, and archiving of instrumental and paleoclimate data; and (3) development of the application of climate variability and change prediction and assessment to provide information for decision makers and assess risk to water resources, agriculture, health and policy.

CICAR’s mandate brings together scientists from NOAA climate-oriented organizations, in particular the Climate Program Office in Silver Spring, Maryland and the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey, and scientists of The Earth Institute, Columbia University, primarily the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) in Palisades, New York, to advance climate research, education and outreach.The NOAA funded research portfolio at Lamont grew out of a clear strategic vision of scientists at LDEO and NOAA. This vision stipulated that ocean observations and coupled ocean-atmosphere modeling are key to understanding long-term climate variability and change and to developing climate prediction capabilities. It also emphasized paleoclimate research as providing climate scenarios quite unlike those revealed in the short instrumental record, thus helping to expand our view of the Earth climate system and challenging our conceptual understanding and modeling capability. Actively pursuing these ideas, LDEO scientists have conducted research based on observations, both instrumental and proxy, analysis, and models and worked with NOAA to form programs and set research directions.

Learn more about the NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) Cooperative Institute Program.

 

NOAA Acknowledgement

"This internet site was prepared by the Cooperative Institute for Climate Applications and Research (CICAR) under award number NA08OAR4320754 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce. The statements, findings, conclusions, and recommendations are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or the Department of Commerce."

 

 

 

 



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