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ADAPT Mini-Symposium
In honor of Syukuro Manabe for his great contributions on climate science



Chairs: Greg Jenkins, Steven Feldstein and Fuqing Zhang
Date: April 10, 2019
Location:1:00-3:00pm: Rm529 Walker Building
                 3:30-4:30pm: Rm112 Walker Building
                 4:30-5:30pm: Myers Weather Center
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Tentative Agenda


1:00-3:00Pm Rm529 Walker Biulding
Chair: Steven Feldstein

1:00-1:05 Opening remarks by Dave Stensrud, Department Head
1:05-1:10 Opening remarks by Jenni Evans, AMS President
1:10-1:20 Greg Jenkins: Brief summary of Suki Manabe’s lifelong accomplishments
1:20-1:40 Richard Alley: Ice sheets and sea-level rise - Projecting the possibilities
1:40:2:00 Mike Mann: The role of the thermohaline circulation in climate variability and climate change
2:00-2:20 Sukyoung Lee: Relation between Arctic moisture flux and tropical temperature biases in CMIP5 simulations
2:20-2:40 Jim Kasting: The habitable zones of different planets
2:40-3:00 Fuqing Zhang: Predictability and data assimilation for climate systems: how and if can learn from weather prediction?

3:00-3:30 Break, and move to Walker Room 112
3:30-4:30 Keynote talk by Suki Manabe (also as part of the dept symposium)

4:30-5:30 Reception at the Walker 6th floor Myers Weather Center