Presentations
Chris Brierley's presentations
Presentations
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Biology and Paleo Environment Seminars Bristol, 8th September 2014 - "Pliocene Tropical Dynamics" | |
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, BIRS workshop, Banff, CA, October 2013 - "Could slab model emulation be a useful tool in ocean uncertainty quantification?" |
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2nd workshop on Pliocene climate, Bristol, September 2013 - "Patterns of early Pliocene warmth: testing potential mechanisms" | |
4th WGNE workshop on systematic errors in weather and climate models, Met. Office, April 2013. "Simple measures of structural climate change" | ![]() |
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, 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, 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 |
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University of Bristol, Geography, April 2012 - "Equatorial Temperature Gradients and Human Evolution" Also presented as subsidiary talk at Brown University, March 2012 |
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Brown University, 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. |
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University College London, Geography, November 2011 - "Ice Age Tropical Cyclones" - in the Physical Geography Seminar Series | |
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Geosciences, June 2011 - "Comparing hypotheses for Pliocene tropical warmth" | |
University of Southern California, Earth Sciences, April 2011 - "Better climate predictions using hindsight" | |
AGU Fall Meeting, 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, December 2010 - "Tropical Cyclones at the Last Glacial Maximum" Poster in session GC51G | ![]() |
Luncheon with the Postdocs, Yale Geology & Geophysics, April 2010 - "Vertical Mixing and the Ocean Circulation" | |
Ocean Sciences, 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. | ![]() |
AGU Fall Meeting, 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 Geological Sciences, Seminar, November 2009 - "Tropical Cyclones and the climate of the Pliocene" | |
Ocean-Atmosphere Energy Transport workshop, Caltech, November 2009 - "Extratropical Mixing, Ocean Temperatures and Heat Transport". Poster | ![]() |
Graduate School of Oceanography at University of Rhode Island, Invited Seminar, July 2009 - "Implications of the Vast Pliocene Warmpool" | |
Yale's Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics group, March 2009 - "Temperature Gradients and Glaciation" | |
Yale's Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics group, October 2008 - "The Curious Case of the Pliocene Climate" | |
Pliocene Model Intercomparison Workshop, June 2008 - "Greatly Expanded Warmpool and the onset of Glacial Cycles". Poster | ![]() |
Pliocene Model Intercomparison Workshop, June 2008 - "Greatly expanded warmpool, permanent El Nino and weaker Hadley circulation in the early Pliocene". Oral presentation given on behalf of Alexey Fedorov | |
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, 2007 - "Ensembles, Uncertainty and Climate Projections" | |
Departmental Seminar, Uni. of Reading, June 2006. "Ocean Model Uncertainty" | |
Chapa Club 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, 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 Ocean Research Group 2nd February 2006 - "The Relative Certainty of Ocean Parameters" | |
Royal Meteorological Society biennial conference, 2005 - "Including Ocean Model Uncertainties in Climate Predictions" | |
Departmental Poster Session, October 2005 - "The effect of Isopycnal Mixing in HadCM3" | ![]() |
Chapa Club October 2005 "Opal Fruits: made to make your mouth water" | |
Earth System Sciences Summer School, September 2004 - Ocean Model Uncertainty I created this early on, and it describes why ocean model uncertainty exists. |