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| September 12, 2017 |
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An Introduction to Planetary Energy Balance,
Richard McGehee, School of Mathematics |
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A planet's global mean temperature can be estimated using elementary physics:
conservation of energy and the theory of black body radiation. Much of the recent interest in
the search for extrasolar planets focuses on the "Goldilocks Zone," the region around a star
where a planet could have liquid water on its surface. |
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| September 19, 2017 |
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An Introduction to Budyko's Model,
slides by Richard McGehee, presentation by Alice Nadeau, School of Mathematics |
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Budyko's equation models the global mean surface temperature as a function of latitude, taking into account the solar input, the surface albedo, the outgoing radiation, the redistribution of heat across latitudes. Since the surface albedo is a function of latitude, the equation can be used to model glaciations. |
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| October 3, 2017 |
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Dynamical systems for planetary and lunar climates,
Alice Nadeau, School of Mathematics |
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| October 10, 2017 |
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An Energy Balance Model of Arctic Sea Ice,
Kaitlin Hill, School of Mathematics |
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As Arctic sea ice extent decreases with increasing greenhouse gases, there is a growing interest in whether there could be a bifurcation associated with its loss, and whether there is significant hysteresis associated with that bifurcation. A challenge in answering this question is that the bifurcation behavior of certain Arctic energy balance models have been shown to be sensitive to how ice-albedo feedback is parameterized. We analyze an Arctic energy balance model in the limit as a smoothing parameter associated with ice-albedo feedback tends to zero, which introduces a discontinuity boundary to the dynamical systems model. Our analysis provides a case study where we use the system in this limit to guide the investigation of bifurcation behavior of the original albedo-smoothed system.
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| October 17, 2017 |
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Permafrost Response to Climate Change via Budyko’s Model,
Richard McGehee, School of Mathematics |
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As the Arctic permafrost melts, it releases sequestered carbon into the atmosphere. Budkyo's model can be used to predict the loss of permafrost due to increasing global temperatures.
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| October 31, 2017 |
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Huybers' 2007 glacial cycles model,
Somyi Baek, School of Mathematics |
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One of the most interesting open questions in Paleoclimate science is the mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT) problem, which surrounds the unknown cause that drove the change in the dominant period of deglaciation from 41 kyr to 100 kyr. Huybers’ model was first suggested by Peter Huybers in 2007 to explain the glacial variability of the earth’s climate, in hopes of shedding light on what prompted the sudden shift in the periodicity of the mid-Pleistocene. I will be presenting his 2009 paper, which roughly goes through these four chapters: (1) proposal of the depth derived age model, (2) statistical testing to determine which of the three Milankovitch cycles paces the glacial cycles, (3) observation of skipped obliquity cycles and linear trend in power spectrum and mean (which serves as motivation for his model structure), (4) proposal of Huybers' model and discussion of model fit. brium disappears in the nonsmooth limit, a pseudo-equilibrium of the sliding flow appears. |
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| November 7, 2017 |
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Saddle behavior in a nonsmooth limit of some planar nonsmooth systems,
Kaitlin Hill, School of Mathematics |
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Many conceptual climate models are formulated as nonsmooth systems, or with a nonsmooth limit. Inspired by behavior seen in several conceptual climate models that limit to nonsmooth systems, we investigate the persistence of a saddle equilibrium in the nonsmooth (Filippov) limit of three planar systems. Although the saddle equilibrium disappears in the nonsmooth limit, a pseudo-equilibrium of the sliding flow appears. |
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| November 21, 2017 |
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How can we define and identify stability - or persistence? - in diverse ecological communities?,
Adam Clark, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Leipzig |
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