ESE 135: Topics in Atmosphere and Ocean Dynamics

Book

The Warming Papers: The Scientific Foundation for the Climate Change Forecast, edited by David Archer and Raymond Pierrehumbert

Schedule

Part I: Climate Physics
1	04/03/19	The Greenhouse Effect	Clare
2	04/05/19	Wagging the Dog	Katrina
3	04/10/19	By the Light of the Silvery Moon	Lily
4	04/12/19	Radiative Transfer	Newton
5	04/17/19	The Balance of Energy	Emmet
6	04/19/19	The Birth of the General Circulation Climate Model	Akshay/Lenka
7	04/24/19	Aerosols	Zhaoyi
8	04/26/19	Ocean Heat Uptake and Committed Warming	Sara
9	05/01/19	Taking Earth’s Temperature	Jia
10	05/03/19	Ice Sheets and Sea Level	Zach
11	05/08/19	The Public Statement	Ollie
Part II: The Carbon Cycle
12	05/10/19	The Sky is Rising!	Clare
13	05/15/19	Denial and Acceptance	Anna
14	05/17/19	Bookends	Zach
15	05/22/19	One If by Land	Katrina
16	05/24/19	Two If by Sea	Lily/Newton
17	05/29/19	On Ocean pH	Sara
18	05/31/19	Tiny Bubbles	Ollie

Discussion questions

• What was the historical context of the paper(s), scientific and otherwise?
• What analysis or argument is presented?
• What was the contribution to our understanding of the climate system and its change?
• What was incorrect or inaccurate?
• What else did you find interesting?

Contact

If you would like to discuss a chapter before presenting it to the group, please let me know. You can email me at jcallies@caltech.edu or find me in my office in 221 Linde + Robinson.