Tim Woollings

(University of Reading, Reading England)

"The North Atlantic jet stream: Variability and change"

What UG Homepage GR
When Mar 29, 2010
from 02:30 pm to 03:30 pm
Where 529 Walker Building
Contact Name Steven Feldstein
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ABSTRACT

"Much of the weather and climate variability experienced in Europe is associated with the North Atlantic eddy-driven jet stream. Here we develop some simple diagnostics to describe changes in the jet stream, and apply these to data from the ERA-40 reanalysis and from the suite of IPCC AR4 models. We use these to address questions such as: are there distinct preferred positions of the jet stream, and do the IPCC models really agree on a poleward shift of the jet stream in response to greenhouse gas forcing?"