"Warm Climates of the Deep Past and what they tell us about the Future"

By Dr Rodrigo Caballero
Meteorology & Climate Centre UCD

When: Thursday February 11th 2010 at 7:30pm

Where: Botany Lecture Theatre, Trinity College Dublin

Presentation Slides in the Members' Section

The warm climates that predominated in Earth's deep past provide some of the closest analogues for ongoing climate change. Simulating these climates using the same climate models employed to predict future climate change is an invaluable way of stress testing the models and checking their reliability. Rodrigo will summarise current knowledge on this topic and discuss its implications.

Dr. Rodrigo Caballero is a Lecturer in Climate Dynamics at the UCD School of Mathematical Sciences. He earned a PhD in physics from the University of Rome in 1998, and was Research Fellow at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Chicago before joining UCD in 2005. His research interests are in large-scale atmosphere and climate dynamics, combining computational and theoretical approaches. He has been invited speaker at a number of conferences and universities internationally, and regularly serves as reviewer for high-level journals in the field including 'Nature'.

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