Climate and Ocean Dynamics group
Every Thursdays at 11am (usually in 1L43), hosted by Sophia Ashby, Remi Tailleux and Pablo Ortega
This group was formally known as NTTG, Ocean talk and CVC
If you want to join the COD mail list, please send an email to Sophia Ashby, Rémi Tailleux or Pablo Ortega.
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Summer 2018
- April 12 - EGU 2018
- April 19 - Simon Josey, (Postponed)
- April 26 - Jon Robson AMOC
- May 3 - Till Kuhlbrodt, NCAS HadGEM3 GC3.1 N96ORCA1: its climate in the present-day and pre-industrial control runs
- May 10 - Pier Luigi Vidale PRIMAVERA (ocean focus)
- May 17 - Stuart Jenkins/ Paulo Ceppi, University of Oxford
- May 24 - Fangxing Tian
- May 31 - Adam Bateson Sea Ice
- June 7 - Valerio Lucarini, Maths Depart.
- June 14 - Sam Cornish, University of Oxford
- June 21 - Reinhard Schiemann
- June 28 - Simon Josey, NOC Southampton
Previous meetings
Spring 2018
- January 18 - Remi Tailleux New insights on the links between Available Potential Energy, heat, and mixing in the ocean
- January 25
- February 1 - Robert Lee Impact of Gulf Stream SST biases on the global atmospheric circulation
- February 8 -
- February 15 - Ocean Sciences 2018
- February 22 - Laura Wilcox Atmospheric response to Asian aerosol emissions
- March 1 - 1L61: Kate Marvel, NASA (cancelled) Ed Hawkin's visitor, Can climate sensitivity be constrained by current observations?
- March 8 - Buwen Dong Impacts of recent decadal changes in Asian aerosols on East Asian summer monsoon
- March 15 - Remi Tailleux/ Hannah Bloomfield Some progress towards a new definition of heat content/ Long term changes in the wintertime surface Arctic Oscillation and Northern Hemisphere storminess in the ERA20C re-analysis
- March 22 - 1L61: David Marshall, University of Oxford Towards implementing a geometrically- and energetically-constrained eddy parameterisation in NEMO
- March 29 - Easter
- April 5 - Helen Burns, NOC Southampton
Autumn 2017
- September 7 - Jonathan Rheinlaender U Bergen
- September 28 - Steve Yeager NCAR Low-Frequency North Atlantic Climate Variability in the Community Earth System Model Large Ensemble
- October 5 - Andrea Dittus "Variability and change in climate extremes: a spatial perspective" and "Future work with a UKESM large ensemble"
- October 12 - Peter Watson University of Oxford , The dynamics of the 2013/14 winter extremes in the UK and North America
- October 19 - Davi MignacCarneiro South Atlantic Meridional Transports from NEMO-based simulations and reanalyses
- October 26 - Xiangbo Feng SST-precipitation relationships in coupled climate reanalyses
- November 2 - John Bruun
- November 9 - Keith Haines Closing global energy and water budgets
- November 16 - Said Qasmi CERFACS, University of Toulouse Teleconnection between Atlantic Multidecadal Variability (AMV) and European temperature: diversity and evaluation of the CMIP5 models
- November 23 - Sophia Ashby Is eddy-permitting ocean resolution 'good enough' at representing mesoscale eddies and their properties globally?
- November 30 - David Ferreira Effective Ocean Heat Transport
- December 7 - Jonathan Gregory Problems with estimating the climate sensitivity to future CO2 increase from historical climate variation
- December 14 - Chris Thomas Assimilating RAPID data
Summer 2017
- April 20 - Xiangbo Feng (Uncertainties of sea surface and air temperature in the ECMWF's first ensemblee coupleed reanalysis, CERA-20C)
- May 4 -
- May 11 - Javier Sanchez-Monedero (Universidad Loyola Andalucia)
- May 18 - Alexis Megann
- May 25 - Gael Forget (MIT)
- June 1 - Valerio Lucarini Melancholia states in the Climate System: a Dynamical Perspective on Multistability
- June 8 -
- June 15- Paulo Ceppi Implications of evolving SST warming patterns for atmospheric circulation and climate sensitivity
- June 22 - Jonny Day
- June 29 - Albert Osso
Spring 2017
- 19 January - Fangxing Tian
- 26 January - David Hassell
- 2 February - BAP
- 9 February - Pablo Ortega
- 16 February - Remi Tailleux
- 23 February -
- 2 March - Matt Menary and Leon Hermanson
- 9 March - Jon Robson
- 16 March - Xiangbo Feng (Postponed 20 April) (Uncertainties of sea surface and air temperature in the ECMWF's first ensemblee coupleed reanalysis, CERA-20C)
- 23 March - Steve George
- 30 March - Paulo Ceppi
- 6 April - Benoit Vanniere
Autumn 2016
- 15 September -
- 22 September -
- 29 September - Emma Suckling
- 6 October - Pablo Ortega
- 13 October - Juan Restreppo
- 20 October - Agathe Germe
- 27 October - BAP
- 3 November - Paul-Arthur Monerie
- 10 November - Olivier Arzel
- 17 November - Paul-Arthur Monerie
- 24 November - Sophia Ashby
- 1 December - BAP
- 7 December - Thomas Delworth North Atlantic climate variability (11:30-12:30 (ESSC room)
- 8 December - Luke Harrington (New Zealand)
- 15 December - Jonathan Gregory
Summer 2016
- May 5 - Bring a plot
- May 12 - Gabriel Wolf
- May 19
- May 26 - Remi
- June 2 - Peter Jan van Leeuwen - CUNDA: Causality Relations for the Indian-Atlantic Interocean exchange
- June 9
- June 16- Sybren Drijfhout - The Lorenz energy cycle in eddy-resolving and eddy-permitting versions of the NEMO Ocean Model
- June 23 -
- June 30 - Bring a plot: Emma, Buwen, Pablo
- July 7 - NCAS/RMetS meeting
- July 14 - Clive Wilkinson (TBC)
Spring 2016
- 14 Jan - No meeting
- 21 Jan - No meeting
- 28 Jan - Steffen Tietsche (ECMWF) - Ongoing ocean and sea ice reanalysis efforts at ECMWF
- 4 Feb - Jonathan Gregory
- 11 Feb -
- 18 Feb -
- 25 Feb - Dan Hodson - Examing predictability in GLOSEA5 winter forecasts
- 3 March -
- 10 March - Gabriel Wolf
- 17 March - Rhiannon Gwynn - Diagnostics of thickness weighted averages for high resolution ECCO2 model solutions
- 24 March - Meeting in GU10 Antoine Hochet - Abyssal recipes
revisited
Autumn 2015
- 17 September - Remi
- 24 September - Bring a plot
- 1 October - Andreas Klocker - Wave-turbulence-mean flow interaction in the Antarctic Circum
- 8 October - Pablo Ortega - A model-tested North Atlantic Oscillation reconstruction for the past millennium
- 15 October - Antoine Hochet - Large-scale unsteady oceanic currents: verticle structure and forcing by large-scale baroclinic instability
- 22 October - Jack Scheff
- 29 October - Ben Bronselaer? (TBC)
- 5 November - Jon Robson
- 12 November - David Ferreira
- 19 November - TBA Erik van Sebille (Imperial College)
- 26 November -
- 3 December - Phil and Shaun - PhD summaries
- 10 December -
Summer 2015
- 23 April - Kevin Oliver (NOC)
- 30 April -
- 7 May -
- 14 May - Matt Menary (Met Office)
- 21 May - Giuseppe Zappa
- 28 May - Roberto Bilbao
- 4 June - David Mulholland
- 11 June - Ruth Petrie
- 18 June - No Meeting - Hoskins@70
- 25 June -
- 2 July - Jonathan Gregory
Spring 2015
- 15 Jan - - No Meeting
- 22 Jan - (CVC) - Bring-a-Plot: Till, Remi, Buwen
- 29 Jan - Bring-a-plot: Steffen, Jon
- 5 Feb - Remi - The impact of isoneutral mixing on energetics and
heat uptake
- 12 Feb - - Paul Williams - The dynamics of baroclinic zonal jets
- 19 Feb - Pablo Ortega - Reconciling two alternative mechanisms behind bi-decadal AMOC variability
- 25 Feb (Wednesday, not Thursday) - Pavel Berloff -
- 5 Mar - - Jonathan - Ice sheets and climate sensitivity
- 12 Mar- - Jon, Len, Dan - HiGEM decadal Predictions
- 19 Mar - -
- 26 Mar - Ed Hawkins
Autumn 2014
- 11 Sept - (CVC) - Jonathan Eden (KNMI) - Precipitation downscaling using Model Output Statistics
- 25 Sept - (CVC) - Jonathan Gregory - The inconstancy of transient climate sensitivity
- 2 Oct (note: meeting is in GU10) - CVC - Vikki Thompson -
The Early 20th Century Warming
- 9 Oct - (Ocean Talk) - Renske Gelderloos (Oxford) - A close up on two aspects of Labrador Sea water formation
- 16 Oct - (CVC) - Special CVC meeting (Clara Desser)
- 23 Oct - No talks due to interviews for lecturer in clouds
- 30 Oct - (CVC) - Roger Bodman - MAGICC: calibrations, projections and uncertainties
- 6 Nov - (CVC) - Danila Volpi - Impacts of different initialisation techniques on the skill of global dynamical climate predictions (NOTE: meeting is in GU01)
- 13 Nov - (CVC) - Steffen Tietsche - Atmospheric and oceanic contributions to interannual forecast errors of Arctic Ocean heat content
- 20 Nov - (Ocean Talk) - Remi Tailleux
- 27 Nov - (CVC) - Eric Guilyardi - Where to look for recent decadal ocean temperature and salinity changes: A CMIP model density analysis.
- 4 Dec - (Ocean Talk/CVC) Markus Huber
- 11 Dec - (Ocean Talk) Mike Bell (MetOffice) -
Super-gyre and meridional overturning ocean circulations driven by Ekman upwelling
and surface buoyancy forcing
Summer 2014
- 1 May - EGU - No meeting
- 8 May - (CVC) - Jonny Day
- 15 May - (Ocean Talk) - Renske Gelderloos (Oxford) - A close up on two aspects of Labrador Sea water formation (Cancelled)
- 22 May - (Ocean Talk) - Aurelie Duchez (NOCS) - Seasonal to interannual AMOC variability: latest update from the RAPID array and high resolution NEMO runs
- 29 May - Higem?
- 5 June - (CVC) -Sybren Drijfhout - Is the AMOC the main source of uncertainty in regional climate change projections for the UK?
- 12 June - (CVC) - Emma Suckling
- 19 June - (CVC) Jon Robson
- 26 June - (CVC) - Roberto Bilbao
- 3 July - (CVC) - Nathaelle Bouttes
- 10 July - (CVC) - Matt Palmer (Met Office)
Spring 2014
- 16 January (CVC) - Bring a plot - Ed, Emma, David, Jonny
- 23 January (CVC) - Emma Suckling - Evaluating the skill of seasonal and decadal prediction systems against empirical benchmarks
- 30 January (Ocean Talk) Dan Golberg (U. Edinburgh) - Response of Antarctic ice streams to strong ocean forcing: a modelling approach
- 6 February (CVC) - Nathalie Schaller (Oxford) - Idealised single forcing GCM simulations to investigate the climate system's response
- 13 February (CVC) - Irene Polo - The importance of wind and buoyancy forcing for the boundary density variations and the geostrophic component of the AMOC at 26N
- 20 February (CVC) - Nathaelle Bouttes - Non-linearity of ocean heat uptake during warming and cooling
- 13 March (CVC) - Giuseppe Zappa
- 20 March (Ocean Talk) Florian Sevellec (NOCS) - TBA
- 27 March - (Ocean Talk) Christopher Doos (U. Stockholm) - The coupled ocean-atmosphere hydrothermohaline circulation
- 3 April - (CVC) - Ben Harvey
- 10 April - (CVC) - Matt Palmer (Met Office)
Autumn 2013
- 22 Aug (CVC) - John Church (CSIRO) - Sea-level research at Hobart
- 26th Sept -
- 3rd Oct -
- 10th Oct (Ocean Talk) - Willem Sijp (UNSW) - Latest results
on ocean bistability
- 17th Oct (Ocean Talk) - David Ferreira (Reading) - TBA
- 24th Oct (CVC) - Will Hobbs - Can we detect long-term, global change from sparse, 135-year-old ocean
data?
- 31st Oct (Ocean Talk) - Andreas Klocker - TBA
- 7th Nov (Ocean Talk) - Till Kuhlbrodt -
A close look at ocean heat uptake in the Southern ocean in an
eddy-permitting model
- 14th Nov - No meeting
- 21st Nov (CVC) - Magdalena Balmaseda (ECMWF) - Role of the ocean in the recent hiatus of surface warming: an ocean reanalysis perspective
- 28th Nov (CVC) - Eleftheria Exarchou - Comparing ocean heat uptake processes among different models
- 5th Dec (CVC) - Steffen Tietsche - Seasonal to interannual Arctic sea-ice predictability in current GCMs
- 12th Dec (CVC) - Buwen Dong
Summer 2013
- 25th April (CVC) - Jen Catto (Monash) - The importance of fronts for global rainfall
- 2nd May (CVC) - Ruth Petrie - Impacts of sea ice loss on the atmosphere
- 9th May (OT) - Erik van Sebille - The Lagrangian take on ocean circulation
- 16th May (OT) - Jan Zika - Disentangling the climate system using thermodynamic coordinates
- 23rd May (OT) - Andy Hogg -
- 30th May (CVC) - Roberto Bilbao - Regional changes in ocean heat uptake in the CMIP5 models
- 6th June (CVC) - Vikki Frith - The warming in the early twentieth century in the North Atlantic
- 13th June (CVC) - No meeting
- 20th June (CVC) - Dan Hodson - An Anatomy of the 1960s Atlantic Cooling
- 27th June (CVC) - Matt Menary - Forced AMOC variability
- 4th July (CVC) - Jon Robson - Initialised predictions of the cooling of the North Atlantic in the 1960s
- 11th July (CVC) - Neil Hart (Identifying where decadal prediction may matter) and Jonny Day (The Greenland ice sheet's surface mass balance in a seasonally sea-ice free Arctic)
Spring 2013
- 10th Jan - No seminar: Research Day -
- 17th Jan (NT) - Robin Smith - In which we learn something about the impact of salinity perturbations on the future uptake of heat by/to/in the (north) Atlantic Ocean
- 24th Jan (DP) - Thomas Toniazzo - Development of ocean-atmosphere coupled systematic biases in CMIP5 decadal hindcast integrations.
- 31st Jan (DP) - John Ho - Variation in the reliability
of ensemble predictions of SSTs from seasonal to decadal timescales
- 7th Feb (ALL) - bring-a-plot session
- 14th Feb (OT) - Lesley Allison - TBD
- 28th Feb (OT) - Danny Feltham - Solid and liquid oceanography
- 7th Mar (NT) - Buwen Dong - The impact of anthropogenic aerosols on the global and regional hydrological cycle
- 21st Mar (OT) - Eric Guilyardi - TBC
- 28th Mar - Easter Break -
- 4th Apr (ALL) - EGU rehearsal session - ESSC seminar room
- 11th Apr - No seminar: EGU conference -
- 18th Apr - - ESSC seminar room
Autumn 2012
- 13th Sept (NT) - Lesley Allison - An event-based approach to understanding decadal AMOC variability and associated impacts - Room: GU10
- 20th Sept - -
- 27th Sept (NT) - John Mitchell - On the recent global mean temperature hiatus - Room: GU01
- 4th Oct - (no seminar due to NCAS-Climate seminar) -
- 11th Oct (NT) - Dan Hodson - The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation: Natural or Anthropogenic?
- 18th Oct (NT) - Giuseppe Zappa - The energetics of quasi stationary waves
- 25th Oct (OT) - Miguel Teixeira - TBD -
- 1st Nov - - TBD
- 8th Nov (OT) - Remi Tailleux - TBD
- 15th Nov (DP) - Jason Webster - Mechanisms and Sources of Predictability of the North Pacific Warming in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s
- 22nd Nov (DP) - Elaine Miles (BOM, Aus) - Seasonal Prediction of Sea-Level Anomalies in the Western Pacific
- 29th Nov (NT) - Bring-a-plot - Ed, Remi, Nicola and Ben
- 6th Dec (DP) - Orial Kryeziu - TBD
- 13th Dec (NT) - Yves Plancherel (Oxford) - Exploring relationships between and amongst overturning circulation indices and hydrographic biases in global coupled climate models
Summer 2012
- 10th May (NT) - Kevin Oliver (NOCS) - Understanding the ocean in terms of gravitational potential energy
- 17th May (DP) - Jon Robson - Initialised decadal predictions of the 1990s Atlantic warming and its climate impacts
- 24th May (NT) - Paul Williams - Clear-air turbulence in a changing climate
- 31st May (OT) - Matthew Thomas (UEA) - Separating Rossby waves from
meso-scale eddies in the altimeter record
- 7th June (NT) - Steffen Tietsche - Predicting large negative sea-ice anomalies in the Arctic
- 14th June (OT) - Alan Grant - Using Large Eddy simulation
to unravel the mysteries of ocean wind-driven mixing
- 21th June (NT) - Caroline Ely - Changing temperature variability and its relationship to thermal advection
- 28th June (NT) - Eleftheria Exarchiou (Hamburg) - Ocean heat uptake in the MPI earth system model, and the role of tidal mixing
- 12th July (NT) NOTE: 2pm - Bring-a-plot - Ed, Thomas, Till
- 19th July (NT) NOTE: 2pm - James Screen (Exeter) - Is Arctic sea ice loss causing more extreme UK weather?
- 26th July (DP) - Rowan Sutton -
Spring 2012
- 19th Jan (NT) - Jonathan Gregory - Modelling large-scale ice-sheet—climate interactions following glacial inception (Room: GU10)
- 26th Jan (NT) - Buwen Dong - The interpretation of biases in decadal hindcasts of a coupled ocean atmosphere model
- 2nd Feb (NT) - Bring-a-plot: Ben, Dan, Robin and Ed
- 9th Feb (OT) - Chris O'Reilly
- 15th Feb (OT) - Prof. Carl Wunsch (Wednesday 2pm: NOTE
SPECIAL TIME AND DATE - Joint with DA)
- 16th Feb (NT) - Robert Lee - Extratropical storm tracks in some of the CMIP5 Models
- 23rd Feb (DP) - Robert Fildes (Lancaster Uni.) -
Empirical predictions of future temperatures
- 1st Mar (NT) - Jonny Day - Sources of multi-decadal variability in Arctic sea ice extent
- 8th Mar (NT) - Nicola Howe - Decadal North Atlantic surface density anomalies: interactions of salinity and temperature
- 15th Mar (DP) - EQUIP highlights - Emma Suckling (LSE)
and Tom Fricker (Exeter) - this may be a longer session than usual
- 22nd Mar (NT) - David Munday (Oxford) - Impact of Mesoscale Eddies on Southern Ocean Circulation
- 29th Mar (OT) - Remi Tailleux - Available energetics of stably
stratified flows and instabilities
- 5th Apr - no talk - Easter closure
- 12th Apr - no talk
- 19th Apr (NT) - Rehearsal session for the EGU - (Room: Agric. 2U02)
- 26th Apr - no talk - EGU conference
Autumn 2011
- 29th Sept (NT) - Giuseppe Zappa - North Atlantic Cyclones in CMIP5 models: systematic errors and climate change projections
- 6th Oct (NT) - Nathaelle Bouttes - Exploring the role of surface fluxes in regional sea level variability among CMIP3 models (Room: Agric. 1L14)
- 13th Oct (NT) - Till Kuhlbrodt - Regional sea level change and ocean heat uptake in the Southern Ocean in HiGEM 1.2
- 10th Nov (NT) - Bring-a-plot session: Tim, Robin, Dan and Thomas
- 17th Nov (DP) - John Ho - Comparing statistical decadal
predictions of Atlantic SSTs with DePreSys
- 24th Nov (NT) - Ben Harvey - Sensitivity of the North Atlantic storm track to regional drivers of change
- 1st Dec (OT) - Remi Tailleux - Energetics, mixing efficiency, and non-viscous dissipation in turbulent stratified fluids
- 8th Dec (DP) - Ed Hawkins - Calibrated near-term
projections of crop-relevant temperatures
Summer 2011
- 5th May (OT) - Rowan Sutton - Ocean heat uptake
- 12th May (NT) - Thomas Toniazzo - surface coupling in the tropical atlantic & its sensitivity to resolution in higem
- 19th May (DP) - Jason Webster - Decadal prediction in
the Pacific
- 26th May (NT) - Manoj Joshi and Ed Hawkins - temporal
uncertainty in climate projections
- 2nd June Lesley Allison (TBC) -
- 9th June (OT) - Subrahmanyam Bulusu - Salinity by Satellite
- 16th June (DP) - UK-France Decadal Prediction Meeting
- 23rd June (NT) - Bring-a-plot session - Ben Harvey, Jon Robson, Jonathan Gregory
Spring 2011
- 6th Jan (OT) - Boris Galperin - Ocean Turbulence
- 13th Jan (NT) - Willem Sijp - Precise calculations on multiple AMOC states
- 20th Jan (NT) - Buwen Dong - Evidence for the enhancement of the Walker circulation in the late-1990s
- 27th Jan (OT) - Nathaelle Bouttes - The evolution of the carbon
cycle during the Quarternary
- 3rd Feb (DP) - Jon Robson - Causes of the rapid warming
of the North Atlantic in the mid-1990s
- 10th Feb (DP) - Manoj Joshi - Stratospheric water vapour effects on climate, extratropical weather, and believe it or not DePreSys
- 17th Feb (NT) - Tim Woolings - Ocean overturning shapes the Atlantic storm track response to anthropogenic forcing
- 24th Feb (NT) - Dave Brayshaw - Storm tracks, temperature fronts and poleward energy transports
- 3rd Mar (NT) - Irene Polo Sanchez - On the relationship between Atlantic and Pacific Niņos
- 17th Mar (NT) - bring-a-plot (Dan, Ed, Thomas, Jason)
- 24th Mar (NT) - Dave Brayshaw (host) - 12noon, in Agric. 1L04: Energy systems/markets, renewables, climate and
meteorology
- 31st Mar (NT and OT) - Discussion session on AMOC bistability and
ocean freshwater transports
- 14th April (NT) - Beena Balan Sarojini - High frequency AMOC estimates
from RAPID-THCMIP GCMs
Autumn 2010
- 12th August (NT)- Robin, Till, Manoj - Drake Passage Madness
- 2nd Sept (NT)- Till - Decomposing the Deacon cell
- 16th Sept (OT)- Rowena Paren - The atmosphere on a thermodynamic diagram
- 23rd Sept (NT)- Beena - High frequency variability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
- 30th Sept - Manoj - Arctic climate and the Stratosphere
- 7th Oct (NT)- Thomas Toniazzo - Tropical South Atlantic ocean-atmosphere fluxes
and ocean advection
- 14th Oct (DP) - Bring-a-plot - Jon, Ed and Rowan
- 21st Oct (OT)- Efim Pelinovski - Rogue Waves
- 28st Oct (NT)- Manoj Joshi - The effect of a stochastic paramterization in FAMOUS
- 4th Nov (DP)- Valerio Lucarini - A Statistical Mechanical Approach
for the Computation of the Climatic Response to General Forcings
- 11th Nov (NT)- Bring-a-plot - Till, Ed and Robin
- 18th Nov (OT) - Abi van der Linden -
- 25th Nov (DP)- Nicola Howe -
- 2nd Dec (OT)- Ray Bell - Wind and wave variability in re-analysis models and satellite measurements in the North Atlantic
- 9th Dec (OT) - Lesley Allison - Spin-up and adjustment of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current: recent
thoughts on the role of North Atlantic deep water formation