BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Cambridge Centre for Climate Science: water vapour and clouds in t he climate system - Louise Sime\, Chris Holloway\, Constantino Listowski\, Tamsin O'Connell\, Jan Zika\, Peter Haynes DTSTART:20151103T140000Z DTEND:20151103T180000Z UID:TALK61092@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:Dr Dan Jones DESCRIPTION:The water cycle is a critical component of Earth's climate sys tem\, as it stores and redistributes heat and freshwater via a set of dyna mic processes. As a part of the water cycle\, water vapour acts as a stron g positive feedback mechanism\, amplifying any changes caused by atmospher ic carbon dioxide. Clouds alter the distribution and balance of radiation at Earth's surface\, impacting on surface temperatures.\n\nIn this afterno on workshop\, we discuss the role of water vapour and clouds in the climat e system through a series of expert talks.\n\n*Programme:*\n\n*14:00 Welco me*\n\n*14:10 Louise Sime (British Antarctic Survey)*\n\n_Heavy stuff: Wat er isotopes in clouds and polar regions_\n\n*14:40 Constantino Listowski ( British Antarctic Survey)*\n\n_Clouds: from observations to simulation cha llenges_\n\n*15:10 Chris Holloway (Department of Meteorology\, University of Reading)*\n\n_The interaction of moisture-cloud processes and tropical convective organization_\n\n*15:40 Tea/coffee break [BMS lecture theatre]* \n\n*16:10 Tamsin O’Connell (Department of Archaeology\, University of C ambridge)*\n\n_Of molluscs and men (and other mammals): archaeological app lications of oxygen isotopic analysis_\n\n*16:40 Jan Zika (Dept. of Physic s and Grantham Institute\, Imperial College London)*\n\n_Wet gets wetter\, salty gets saltier: How a changing global water cycle is revealing itself in the ocean_\n\n*17:10 Peter Haynes (DAMTP\, University of Cambridge)*\n \n_The stratospheric water vapour puzzle?_\n\n*17:40 Wine reception [Todd- Hamied Room]*\n\nTea/coffee will be provided\n\n"Free registration now ope n":http://goo.gl/forms/u7dFKNgkv5\n\nSpeaker Bios:\n\n*Dr Louise Sime* is the Paleoclimate group leader within the Ice Dynamics and Palaeoclimate te am at the British Antarctic Survey. Her research is primarily concerned wi th understanding changes in ice sheets\, sea ice\, and climate in polar re gions over the last 800\,000 years. Much of her effort goes into understan ding ice core observations by using water isotope data and climate model s imulations. Stable water isotopes (deuterium and oxygen-18) in ice record represent a key long-term proxy record of climate. Using the stable water isotope in this way helps us better understand how ice sheets\, sea ice\, and climate behaved during past climate changes.\n\n*Dr Chris Holloway* is a Lecturer in Convection in the Department of Meteorology at the Universi ty of Reading. He studies atmospheric convection\, tropical weather and t ropical climate. Chris is particularly interested in the interaction betw een convection and larger-scale fields and the organisation of convection\ , including the vertical structure of temperature and moisture at various spatial scales. A related interest is the non-linear relationship between column water vapour and precipitation and how this relationship relates to distributions of convective clusters and the temporal evolution of convec tive systems. He is also involved in efforts to improve the way current g lobal weather and climate models represent convection.\n\n*Dr Constantino Listowski* works as a cloud physicist and modeller at the British Antarcti c Survey. He is mainly interested in the modelling of tropospheric Antarct ic cloud microphysics\, focusing on both observations and high-resolution simulations. His field of expertise extends to other planetary atmospheres as well (e.g. Mars)\, where clouds can show both differences and similari ties with the ones we observe on Earth.\n\n*Dr Tamsin O’Connell* is a ch emist specializing in isotopic analysis for palaeodiet and palaeoclimate. She heads the Dorothy Garrod Lab for Isotopic Analysis at the Department o f Archaeology & Anthropology\, University of Cambridge. Her research trace s signals of diet and climate in human and animal tissues\, primarily usin g carbon\, nitrogen and oxygen isotopic analysis. She has worked on all pe riods from the modern to the Palaeolithic\, and on material from all seven continents of the globe\, with application to archaeology\, ecology and e pidemiology.\n\n*Dr Jan Zika* is a senior research scientist at Imperial C ollege London\, based at the Department of Physics and the Grantham Instit ute – Climate Change and the Environment. He gained his PhD in mathemati cs and climate science from the University of New South Wales in 2010 afte r which he undertook research in Grenoble\, France and most recently at th e University of Southampton – National Oceanography Centre. He is fascin ated by the role of the ocean and the cycle of water in the climate system . In his research\, he has pioneered the application of classical thermody namic methods to the earth system and has used these methods to help under stand how the climate is responding to increases in greenhouse gases. He i s the recipient of best PhD award from the Australian Meteorological and O ceanographic Society and both a NERC Postdoctoral and Independent Research Fellowship.\n\n*Professor Peter Haynes* has worked in the Department of A pplied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics since beginning as a PhD studen t\, with a two-year intermission as a postdoc at University of Washington. His research focuses on the large-scale fluid dynamics of atmosphere and ocean\, and related topics. In atmospheric science\, these include the dyn amics of the global circulation\, the interactions between dynamics\, chem istry and radiation\, and the various physical and dynamical processes con trolling the distributions of chemical species\, including water vapour.\n LOCATION:Pfizer Lecture Theatre\, Department of Chemistry END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR