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Climate Change and Atlantic Circulation
Today my very first scientific publication is appearing in Geophysical Research Letters. During my summer at UVic, I helped out with a model intercomparison project regarding the effect of climate...
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The PETM
Lately I have been reading a lot about the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM, which is my favourite paleoclimatic event (is it weird to have a favourite?) This episode of rapid global warming...
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A Visit to NCAR
Last week I was lucky enough to attend the Second Workshop on Coupling Technologies for Earth System Models, held at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, USA. I was...
View ArticleMilestones
You may have already heard that carbon dioxide concentrations have surpassed 400 ppm. The most famous monitoring station, Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, reached this value on May 9th. Due to the...
View ArticleA Simple Stochastic Climate Model: Introduction
This winter I took a course in computational physics, which has probably been my favourite undergraduate course to date. Essentially it was an advanced numerical methods course, but from a very...
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A Simple Stochastic Climate Model: Deriving the Backbone
Last time I introduced the concept of a simple climate model which uses stochastic techniques to simulate uncertainty in our knowledge of the climate system. Here I will derive the backbone of this...
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A Simple Stochastic Climate Model: Climate Sensitivity
I haven’t forgotten about this project! Read the introduction and ODE derivation if you haven’t already. Last time I derived the following ODE for temperature T at time t: where S and τ are constants,...
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My Research with Steve
Almost four years ago I took a job as a summer student of Dr. Steve Easterbrook, in the software engineering lab of the University of Toronto. This was my first time taking part in research, but also...
View ArticleWe just published in Nature Geoscience
It turns out that when you submit a paper to a journal like Nature Geoscience “just in case, we have nothing to lose, they’ll probably reject it straight away”…sometimes you are unexpectedly...
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Future projections of Antarctic ice shelf melting
Climate change will increase ice shelf melt rates around Antarctica. That’s the not-very-surprising conclusion of my latest modelling study, done in collaboration with both Australian and German...
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