[natphil] 2016 Wilson Lecture: Thursday Nov. 3rd: A decade after the Day After Tomorrow: The Ocean's Role in Climate

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2016 J. Tuzo Wilson Public Lecture

Thursday Nov. 3rd at 8:00pm (next week)

Isabel Bader Theatre
93 Charles Street West, Toronto
Museum subway, East exit

A Decade After 
The Day After Tomorrow:
Our Current Understanding of
the Ocean's Role in Climate


by 
Dr. Susan Lozier, 
Earth and Ocean Sciences,
Nicholas School, Duke University
http://sites.duke.edu/mslozier/ <http://sites.duke.edu/mslozier/>

In 1800 Count Rumford ascertained the ocean's meridional overturning circulation from a single profile of ocean temperature constructed with the use of a rope, a wooden bucket and a rudimentary thermometer. Over two centuries later, data from floats, gliders and moorings deployed across the North Atlantic has transformed our understanding of this overturning circulation, popularly termed the ocean 'conveyor belt'. While Rumford appreciated the role of the ocean's overturning in redistributing heat, today we understand the crucial role that this circulation plays in sequestering anthropogenic carbon dioxide in the deep ocean. In this talk I will discuss our current understanding of the ocean's overturning circulation, its role in our global climate and what we currently do and don't understand about the mechanisms controlling its temporal change.

Refreshments afterwards

Free public lecture sponsored by 
the Department of Physics, University of Toronto

Facebook event page:
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Department event page (poster):
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