We’d rather enjoyed our last trip to the AGU and had always hoped to go back some time but it’s a long and expensive trip from the UK especially without having access to JAMSTEC’s generous travel budget. Back in February, PEN had decided to propose a session at the AGU this year, and there was…
The possibility of visiting NCAR has been at the back of our minds for some time, so when the rare honour of invitations to speak at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco plopped into both of our inboxes around June, we swung into action. A couple of months at NCAR rounded off with an…
This is…..big: And impeccably sourced 🙂 It’s not beyond criticism, actually – the timeline doesn’t resolve possible rapid changes in temperature, so the comparison of smoothed paleo reconstruction with modern observations could be considered a bit misleading (see tweets here for example). But this is a relatively minor quibble on what is really a very…
This was the title of a recent workshop held by the Past Earth Network (PEN) in Cambridge. PEN is one of 4 EPSRC-funded networks aiming to bring together mathematicians/statisticians and environmental scientists to help address problems in environmental change. While I wasn’t part of the PEN bid, I am acting as one of the co-leaders…
At long last jules and I have managed to submit the written version of a talk that I have given (bits of) no fewer than four times over the last few years (at NCAR, UKMO/HC, Schloss Ringberg and EGU). It had to get re-written several times and sit at the back of my mind on…
Otherwise known as, there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch. At least, there isn’t any longer in the Climate Division at NCAR. It feels like a long time ago that we last dropped in to give seminars at NCAR. Well, perhaps that’s not so surprising as it was during our previous careers 🙂…
Our latest paper has just appeared in Nature Climate Change: “Evaluation of CMIP5 palaeo-simulations to improve climate projections”. It was mainly the brainchild of Sandy Harrison, intended as a response/update to the “preview” paper “Evaluation of climate models using palaeoclimatic data” which promised that the PMIP component of CMIP5 would provide assessments of model performance,…
