IUP/AWI Blockseminar
Climate variability

Thursday, March 1st, 2012, 9:00h

Venue:
Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP)
University of Bremen
(Building NW1) Room S 1360
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Contact at IUP: Holger Winkler
hwinkler@iup.physik.uni-bremen
0421-218-62174

Contact at AWI: Prof. Gerrit Lohmann
Gerrit.Lohmann@awi.de
0471-4831-1758/1760


Programme

9.00 - 9.10  
                    
Welcome
9.10 - 9.30


 Thomas Felis (MARUM)
Past climate variability from corals
9.30 - 9.50


 Mario Hoppema (AWI)
Oceanic CO2 in the Southern Ocean
9.50 - 10.10


 Alireza Sadeghi (IUP)
Studying the coupling of coccolithophore blooms to climate variables in selected ocean regions using remote sensing data
10.10 - 10.40
                             
Coffee break
10.40 - 11.10


 Daniela Matei (MPI Hamburg) -- invited guest talk --
Predicting the multiyear variations of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and heat transport
11.10 - 11.30
 Agnieszka Beszczynska-Moeller (AWI)
Variability of oceanic fluxes through Fram Strait to the Arctic Ocean on monthly to decadal time scales
11.30 - 11.50


 Helmut Fischer (IUP)
Radiometric methods to investigate transport and chronology
11.50 - 13.00

 Lunch break
13.00 - 13.30


 Sascha Brand (AWI Potsdam) -- invited guest talk --
Climate variability on annual to decadal scales in an ESM with interactive stratospheric chemistry
13.30 - 13.50 Jongmin Yoon (IUP)
Trend Analysis of global AOT based on various Polar Orbiting Satellite Observations: MODIS (Terra), MISR(Terra), SeaWiFS (OrbView-2), and MODIS (Aqua)
13.50 - 14.10


 Oliver Schneising (IUP)
Greenhouse gas observations from satellite: The GHG-CCI project of ESA's Climate Change Initiative
14.10 - 14.40

 Coffee break
14.40 - 15.00 Sandra Schwegmann (AWI)
 Sea ice variability and trends in the Weddell Sea for 1979 - 2006
15.00 - 15.20
Christian Melsheimer (IUP)
Variability of sea ice extent
15.20 - 15.40 Tido Semmler (AWI)
Impact of decreasing sea ice cover and warming Arctic surface temperature on the Northern mid-latitude climate – comparison of coupled with uncoupled EC-Earth simulations
15.40 Closing