20 April 2023…
Mercer County Community College (Presentation): Career pathways and research opportunities in the Earth sciences, West Windsor Township, NJ, USA.
Arctic climate through the lens of data visualizationZachary Labe
15 February 2023…
Rider University, Global Biogeochemistry Class Visit (Presentation): Arctic climate change through the lens of data visualization, NOAA GFDL, Princeton, USA.
References...
Delworth, T. L., Cooke, W. F., Adcroft, A., Bushuk, M., Chen, J. H., Dunne, K. A., ... & Zhao, M. (2020). SPEAR: The next generation GFDL modeling system for seasonal to multidecadal prediction and projection. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12(3), e2019MS001895, https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019MS001895
Labe, Z.M., Y. Peings, and G. Magnusdottir (2019). The effect of QBO phase on the atmospheric response to projected Arctic sea ice loss in early winter, Geophysical Research Letters, DOI:10.1029/2019GL083095, https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019GL083095
Communicating Arctic climate change through data-driven storiesZachary Labe
Arctic Science Summit Week 2021 (Session 2: “The 4 Essential Cs - Coordination, Communication, Community, and Collaboration”):
In this presentation, I will discuss the power of sharing Arctic climate change information through accessible and engaging data visualizations. In particular, I will focus on using social media (Twitter) as one tool for communicating science to broad audiences.
This is sample project based learning Mathematics .
The students learnt "Linear Equation taking Arctic sea ice amount "Through this project the students developed the awareness that we should be very conscious about the global warming under facilitation of teacher Pratima Nayak
Visualizing climate change through dataZachary Labe
18 November 2023…
NJ State Museum Planetarium (Presentation): Visualizing climate change through data, Trenton, NJ.
References...
Eischeid, J.K., M.P. Hoerling, X.-W. Quan, A. Kumar, J. Barsugli, Z.M. Labe, K.E. Kunkel, C.J. Schreck III, D.R. Easterling, T. Zhang, J. Uehling, and X. Zhang (2023). Why has the summertime central U.S. warming hole not disappeared? Journal of Climate, DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0716.1, https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/36/20/JCLI-D-22-0716.1.xml
The document discusses climate change in the Arctic. It notes that the Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the globe, with sea ice extent and thickness declining significantly. Climate models project that Arctic warming and sea ice loss will continue through the 21st century. Improving observations and models can help reduce uncertainties about future climate impacts in the Arctic and how changes may influence remote weather patterns. Action is needed to reduce emissions and limit global temperature rise in order to prevent the worst effects of climate change in the Arctic.
Contrasting polar climate change in the past, present, and futureZachary Labe
28 September 2023…
Guest lecture for “Observing and Modeling Climate Change (EES 3506/5506)” (Presentation): Contrasting polar climate change in the past, present, and future, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. Remote Presentation.
Describes latest observations of climate by satellites and ground stations and assesses them relative to the possible causes of 'greenhouse gases', world energy use, and latent heat transfer by crop irrigation.
Arctic climate through the lens of data visualizationZachary Labe
15 February 2023…
Rider University, Global Biogeochemistry Class Visit (Presentation): Arctic climate change through the lens of data visualization, NOAA GFDL, Princeton, USA.
References...
Delworth, T. L., Cooke, W. F., Adcroft, A., Bushuk, M., Chen, J. H., Dunne, K. A., ... & Zhao, M. (2020). SPEAR: The next generation GFDL modeling system for seasonal to multidecadal prediction and projection. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12(3), e2019MS001895, https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019MS001895
Labe, Z.M., Y. Peings, and G. Magnusdottir (2019). The effect of QBO phase on the atmospheric response to projected Arctic sea ice loss in early winter, Geophysical Research Letters, DOI:10.1029/2019GL083095, https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019GL083095
Communicating Arctic climate change through data-driven storiesZachary Labe
Arctic Science Summit Week 2021 (Session 2: “The 4 Essential Cs - Coordination, Communication, Community, and Collaboration”):
In this presentation, I will discuss the power of sharing Arctic climate change information through accessible and engaging data visualizations. In particular, I will focus on using social media (Twitter) as one tool for communicating science to broad audiences.
This is sample project based learning Mathematics .
The students learnt "Linear Equation taking Arctic sea ice amount "Through this project the students developed the awareness that we should be very conscious about the global warming under facilitation of teacher Pratima Nayak
Visualizing climate change through dataZachary Labe
18 November 2023…
NJ State Museum Planetarium (Presentation): Visualizing climate change through data, Trenton, NJ.
References...
Eischeid, J.K., M.P. Hoerling, X.-W. Quan, A. Kumar, J. Barsugli, Z.M. Labe, K.E. Kunkel, C.J. Schreck III, D.R. Easterling, T. Zhang, J. Uehling, and X. Zhang (2023). Why has the summertime central U.S. warming hole not disappeared? Journal of Climate, DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0716.1, https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/36/20/JCLI-D-22-0716.1.xml
The document discusses climate change in the Arctic. It notes that the Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the globe, with sea ice extent and thickness declining significantly. Climate models project that Arctic warming and sea ice loss will continue through the 21st century. Improving observations and models can help reduce uncertainties about future climate impacts in the Arctic and how changes may influence remote weather patterns. Action is needed to reduce emissions and limit global temperature rise in order to prevent the worst effects of climate change in the Arctic.
Contrasting polar climate change in the past, present, and futureZachary Labe
28 September 2023…
Guest lecture for “Observing and Modeling Climate Change (EES 3506/5506)” (Presentation): Contrasting polar climate change in the past, present, and future, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. Remote Presentation.
Describes latest observations of climate by satellites and ground stations and assesses them relative to the possible causes of 'greenhouse gases', world energy use, and latent heat transfer by crop irrigation.
This document summarizes projections of future Arctic climate from the research of Zachary Labe. Sea ice extent is declining at a rate of 0.8 million km2 per decade as Arctic temperatures rise more than twice as fast as the global average. This warming amplifies in the Arctic (Arctic amplification) and is influencing weather patterns in northern mid-latitudes. Research indicates that continued sea ice loss will cause significant warming over the Arctic Ocean and a shift in the jet stream, with impacts on weather extremes. Understanding Arctic climate variability is important for assessing future local and remote responses to changes in the region.
Researching and Communicating Our Changing ClimateZachary Labe
Zachary Labe is a postdoc researcher at NOAA GFDL and Princeton University who studies climate variability and change. His research uses tools like artificial intelligence and climate models to disentangle the signal of climate change from natural weather noise. He conducts field work including Arctic expeditions and uses supercomputers to run complex climate models that generate huge amounts of data.
Global warming is part of natural climate cycles according to the document. It argues that the Earth's climate is primarily influenced by solar activity and fluctuations in the sun's irradiance. The document provides several lines of evidence from historical temperature and greenhouse gas records, as well as studies on plankton and agriculture, to support its view that global warming poses no significant risks and may provide economic benefits from increased growing seasons and rainfall. However, it does not consider the potential long-term consequences of rising sea levels or more severe storms.
The year 2014 tied with 2010 as the warmest year on record for the last century. The melting of Greenland, mountain glaciers, and thermal expansion is raising sea levels four times faster than in 1900. Sea level rises of 2 to 6 feet are predicted by the end of the century. Flood highs from hurricanes Sandy and Katrina were ~ 10 feet.
The article “Treading Water” in the February 2015 "National Geographic" tells how Dutch Docklands LLC sees profit not loss from rising sea levels. They are building floating homes in Miami, FL. A floating classroom could assure ASPEC’s long-term future. It would provide a place to meet in the event of flooding by the 10-foot ocean surges that accompany hurricanes.
Dr. Carr describes how increasing greenhouse gases, mostly carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels, trap the radiation that is warming our planet. Advances in non-carbon emitting energy sources can reduce global warming. Solar PV panels are now generating electricity at $0.07/kWhr, less than the national utility average of $0.12kWhr. Rising sea levels are a better measure of global warming than atmospheric temperature, as 90% of our planet’s heat content is in our oceans.
You can learn more at www.RiskyBusiness.org.
What are we doing to our climate? What is it doing to us? What can we do?Paul H. Carr
OVERVIEW
I will be introducing you to ECONOMIC, ECOLOGICAL, and TECHNOLOGICAL ISSUES.
¥ Climate change is an unintended consequence of carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels.
¥ By pricing in the social and environmental cost of these emissions, we can expedite their reduction. Let’s harness profit greed towards green technology development.
¥ The environmental challenge is to balance the beauty and sacredness of nature with its utility.
ABSTRACT
What are we doing to our climate? The scientific consensus. Tides and temperatures are rising. Since the beginning of the industrial age, emissions from fossil fuel burning have raised carbon dioxide concentrations to 410 ppm. This is 33% higher than in the last million years. This increase is warming our planet via the Greenhouse Effect. At the present rate of carbon dioxide increase, we will reach 800 ppm by 2100. When our earth was at this concentration 40 million years ago, it was so warm that there was no ice. Sea levels were about 300 feet higher than today.
What is climate change doing to us? “The earth and its poor cry out, and we must listen” Pope Francis. Dry regions are drier and wet ones wetter. Wildfires have increased threefold since 1970, storms more violent, floods setting record heights, and glaciers melting. Natural catastrophes are occurring more than twice as frequently as in 1980. Sea levels could rise as high as 18 feet by 2060. Parts of Earth are increasingly uninhabitable, resulting in millions of climate change refugees, CLIMmigration.
What can we do? Religion and science matter. Ethics trumping economics. Let’s yoke our knowledge of climate science with the motivational power of spiritual values. We need to reduce our carbon footprints. We now have the option to purchase green electric cars getting the equivalent of 100 miles per gallon and solar PV panels to lower our electric bills. We can support the Citizen’s Climate Lobby which advocates a revenue neutral carbon production fee resulting in a dividend returned to all. This would stimulate our economy creating millions of jobs and increase the deployment of green solar, wind, and nuclear energy sources. Thorium, in addition to uranium, is a green energy source for the future. Republicans are less afraid of nuclear energy than Democrats.
The document summarizes resources for teaching middle school students about global warming and its effects on the polar regions. It defines key terms like albedo and describes how melting sea ice causes a positive feedback loop that warms the Arctic. It also outlines national science standards, common student misconceptions, and hands-on activities about topics like light reflection, the carbon cycle, and analyzing climate data and sea ice extent.
The National Middle School Association (NMSA) sponsored this presentation for middle school science teachers. Topics include Earth’s energy budget and climate change; Albedo; Regional temperature and sea ice changes; NSES Standards and Misconceptions; Resources to Enhance Your Content Knowledge; and Science Lessons and Activities.
The document discusses the topic of climate change, past, present, and future. It provides an overview of the factors that control climate, including land surface properties, oceans, greenhouse gases, and solar radiation. It describes how the climate has varied in the past due to natural factors like variations in Earth's orbit and composition of the atmosphere. It then discusses evidence that warming trends over the last few decades are likely due to human activities like fossil fuel burning. Models predict that future climate change may have significant impacts.
From our climate panel in Grand Junction on August 4:
Our Forest, Our Water, Our Land: Local Impacts on Climate Change. Sponsored by Conservation Colorado, Mesa County Library, Math & Science Center
The document discusses several topics related to climate change, including natural climate oscillations, urban heat islands, land use changes, temperature proxy records, and measurements of land and ocean temperatures. It questions the reliability of some temperature proxy records and surface temperature measurements, and argues that climate models likely overestimate the warming effects of increased CO2 levels.
The document discusses global warming and its causes and impacts. It summarizes that carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels are trapping heat in the atmosphere and warming the planet. This is causing rising temperatures, more extreme weather, sea level rise, and other environmental changes that are damaging to human society and natural ecosystems. The document advocates for solutions like transitioning to renewable energy and green building practices to mitigate the problem.
Observations and climate model projections of Arctic climate changeZachary Labe
The document summarizes observations of Arctic climate change and projections from climate models. It finds that the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the global average due to a process known as polar amplification. Satellite data shows sea ice extent and thickness have sharply declined in recent decades. Climate models project further sea ice loss and amplified warming in the Arctic under high emissions scenarios. This could impact weather patterns in mid-latitudes through changes to jet streams and storm tracks. Improved observations and modeling are needed to reduce uncertainty about future impacts.
Climate change extremes by season in the United StatesZachary Labe
11 September 2023…
Hershey Horticulture Society (Presentation): Climate change extremes by season in the United States, Hershey, PA, USA.
References...
Eischeid, J.K., M.P. Hoerling, X.-W. Quan, A. Kumar, J. Barsugli, Z.M. Labe, K.E. Kunkel, C.J. Schreck III, D.R. Easterling, T. Zhang, J. Uehling, and X. Zhang (2023). Why has the summertime central U.S. warming hole not disappeared? Journal of Climate, DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0716.1
Labe, Z.M., T.R. Ault, and R. Zurita-Milla (2016), Identifying Anomalously Early Spring Onsets in the CESM Large Ensemble Project, R. Clim Dyn, DOI:10.1007/s00382-016-3313-2
Labe, Z.M., N.C. Johnson, and T.L Delworth (2023). Changes in United States summer temperatures revealed by explainable neural networks. Preprint. DOI: 10.22541/essoar.168987129.98069596/v1
Reexamining future projections of Arctic climate linkagesZachary Labe
10 May 2024…
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Student/Postdoc Seminar (Presentation): Reexamining future projections of Arctic climate linkages, Princeton University, USA.
References...
Labe, Z.M., Y. Peings, and G. Magnusdottir (2018), Contributions of ice thickness to the atmospheric response from projected Arctic sea ice loss,
Geophysical Research Letters, DOI:10.1029/2018GL078158
Labe, Z.M., Y. Peings, and G. Magnusdottir (2019). The effect of QBO phase on the atmospheric response to projected Arctic sea ice loss in early winter, Geophysical Research Letters, DOI:10.1029/2019GL083095
Labe, Z.M., Y. Peings, and G. Magnusdottir (2020). Warm Arctic, cold Siberia pattern: role of full Arctic amplification versus sea ice loss alone, Geophysical Research Letters, DOI:10.1029/2020GL088583
Labe, Z.M., May 2020: The effects of Arctic sea-ice thickness loss and stratospheric variability on mid-latitude cold spells. University of California, Irvine. Doctoral Dissertation.
Peings, Y., Z.M. Labe, and G. Magnusdottir (2021), Are 100 ensemble members enough to capture the remote atmospheric response to +2°C Arctic sea ice loss? Journal of Climate, DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0613.1
1) The document discusses various causes of global climate change including changes in Earth's orbit and solar radiation, albedo effects, and greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane.
2) Evidence of past climate changes is seen in temperature and carbon dioxide variations from ice cores, glacial activity, sea levels, and vegetation changes.
3) The author argues that climate change is a natural phenomenon and that the role of human-caused carbon dioxide emissions in current warming is limited and uncertain.
The document discusses several factors related to climate change:
1. It discusses three primary factors that influence Earth's orbit and axial tilt - eccentricity, axial tilt, and precession - and how these Milankovitch cycles impact climate over long time periods.
2. It explains the Ruddiman hypothesis, which suggests that human agricultural activities beginning around 8,000 years ago prevented the onset of a natural ice age, and industrialization in the 19th century further disrupted the climate cycle.
3. It provides examples of how human activities like fossil fuel use, deforestation, and agriculture have increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere like carbon dioxide and methane, driving unprecedented modern climate change.
This document summarizes projections of future Arctic climate from the research of Zachary Labe. Sea ice extent is declining at a rate of 0.8 million km2 per decade as Arctic temperatures rise more than twice as fast as the global average. This warming amplifies in the Arctic (Arctic amplification) and is influencing weather patterns in northern mid-latitudes. Research indicates that continued sea ice loss will cause significant warming over the Arctic Ocean and a shift in the jet stream, with impacts on weather extremes. Understanding Arctic climate variability is important for assessing future local and remote responses to changes in the region.
Researching and Communicating Our Changing ClimateZachary Labe
Zachary Labe is a postdoc researcher at NOAA GFDL and Princeton University who studies climate variability and change. His research uses tools like artificial intelligence and climate models to disentangle the signal of climate change from natural weather noise. He conducts field work including Arctic expeditions and uses supercomputers to run complex climate models that generate huge amounts of data.
Global warming is part of natural climate cycles according to the document. It argues that the Earth's climate is primarily influenced by solar activity and fluctuations in the sun's irradiance. The document provides several lines of evidence from historical temperature and greenhouse gas records, as well as studies on plankton and agriculture, to support its view that global warming poses no significant risks and may provide economic benefits from increased growing seasons and rainfall. However, it does not consider the potential long-term consequences of rising sea levels or more severe storms.
The year 2014 tied with 2010 as the warmest year on record for the last century. The melting of Greenland, mountain glaciers, and thermal expansion is raising sea levels four times faster than in 1900. Sea level rises of 2 to 6 feet are predicted by the end of the century. Flood highs from hurricanes Sandy and Katrina were ~ 10 feet.
The article “Treading Water” in the February 2015 "National Geographic" tells how Dutch Docklands LLC sees profit not loss from rising sea levels. They are building floating homes in Miami, FL. A floating classroom could assure ASPEC’s long-term future. It would provide a place to meet in the event of flooding by the 10-foot ocean surges that accompany hurricanes.
Dr. Carr describes how increasing greenhouse gases, mostly carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels, trap the radiation that is warming our planet. Advances in non-carbon emitting energy sources can reduce global warming. Solar PV panels are now generating electricity at $0.07/kWhr, less than the national utility average of $0.12kWhr. Rising sea levels are a better measure of global warming than atmospheric temperature, as 90% of our planet’s heat content is in our oceans.
You can learn more at www.RiskyBusiness.org.
What are we doing to our climate? What is it doing to us? What can we do?Paul H. Carr
OVERVIEW
I will be introducing you to ECONOMIC, ECOLOGICAL, and TECHNOLOGICAL ISSUES.
¥ Climate change is an unintended consequence of carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels.
¥ By pricing in the social and environmental cost of these emissions, we can expedite their reduction. Let’s harness profit greed towards green technology development.
¥ The environmental challenge is to balance the beauty and sacredness of nature with its utility.
ABSTRACT
What are we doing to our climate? The scientific consensus. Tides and temperatures are rising. Since the beginning of the industrial age, emissions from fossil fuel burning have raised carbon dioxide concentrations to 410 ppm. This is 33% higher than in the last million years. This increase is warming our planet via the Greenhouse Effect. At the present rate of carbon dioxide increase, we will reach 800 ppm by 2100. When our earth was at this concentration 40 million years ago, it was so warm that there was no ice. Sea levels were about 300 feet higher than today.
What is climate change doing to us? “The earth and its poor cry out, and we must listen” Pope Francis. Dry regions are drier and wet ones wetter. Wildfires have increased threefold since 1970, storms more violent, floods setting record heights, and glaciers melting. Natural catastrophes are occurring more than twice as frequently as in 1980. Sea levels could rise as high as 18 feet by 2060. Parts of Earth are increasingly uninhabitable, resulting in millions of climate change refugees, CLIMmigration.
What can we do? Religion and science matter. Ethics trumping economics. Let’s yoke our knowledge of climate science with the motivational power of spiritual values. We need to reduce our carbon footprints. We now have the option to purchase green electric cars getting the equivalent of 100 miles per gallon and solar PV panels to lower our electric bills. We can support the Citizen’s Climate Lobby which advocates a revenue neutral carbon production fee resulting in a dividend returned to all. This would stimulate our economy creating millions of jobs and increase the deployment of green solar, wind, and nuclear energy sources. Thorium, in addition to uranium, is a green energy source for the future. Republicans are less afraid of nuclear energy than Democrats.
The document summarizes resources for teaching middle school students about global warming and its effects on the polar regions. It defines key terms like albedo and describes how melting sea ice causes a positive feedback loop that warms the Arctic. It also outlines national science standards, common student misconceptions, and hands-on activities about topics like light reflection, the carbon cycle, and analyzing climate data and sea ice extent.
The National Middle School Association (NMSA) sponsored this presentation for middle school science teachers. Topics include Earth’s energy budget and climate change; Albedo; Regional temperature and sea ice changes; NSES Standards and Misconceptions; Resources to Enhance Your Content Knowledge; and Science Lessons and Activities.
The document discusses the topic of climate change, past, present, and future. It provides an overview of the factors that control climate, including land surface properties, oceans, greenhouse gases, and solar radiation. It describes how the climate has varied in the past due to natural factors like variations in Earth's orbit and composition of the atmosphere. It then discusses evidence that warming trends over the last few decades are likely due to human activities like fossil fuel burning. Models predict that future climate change may have significant impacts.
From our climate panel in Grand Junction on August 4:
Our Forest, Our Water, Our Land: Local Impacts on Climate Change. Sponsored by Conservation Colorado, Mesa County Library, Math & Science Center
The document discusses several topics related to climate change, including natural climate oscillations, urban heat islands, land use changes, temperature proxy records, and measurements of land and ocean temperatures. It questions the reliability of some temperature proxy records and surface temperature measurements, and argues that climate models likely overestimate the warming effects of increased CO2 levels.
The document discusses global warming and its causes and impacts. It summarizes that carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels are trapping heat in the atmosphere and warming the planet. This is causing rising temperatures, more extreme weather, sea level rise, and other environmental changes that are damaging to human society and natural ecosystems. The document advocates for solutions like transitioning to renewable energy and green building practices to mitigate the problem.
Observations and climate model projections of Arctic climate changeZachary Labe
The document summarizes observations of Arctic climate change and projections from climate models. It finds that the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the global average due to a process known as polar amplification. Satellite data shows sea ice extent and thickness have sharply declined in recent decades. Climate models project further sea ice loss and amplified warming in the Arctic under high emissions scenarios. This could impact weather patterns in mid-latitudes through changes to jet streams and storm tracks. Improved observations and modeling are needed to reduce uncertainty about future impacts.
Climate change extremes by season in the United StatesZachary Labe
11 September 2023…
Hershey Horticulture Society (Presentation): Climate change extremes by season in the United States, Hershey, PA, USA.
References...
Eischeid, J.K., M.P. Hoerling, X.-W. Quan, A. Kumar, J. Barsugli, Z.M. Labe, K.E. Kunkel, C.J. Schreck III, D.R. Easterling, T. Zhang, J. Uehling, and X. Zhang (2023). Why has the summertime central U.S. warming hole not disappeared? Journal of Climate, DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0716.1
Labe, Z.M., T.R. Ault, and R. Zurita-Milla (2016), Identifying Anomalously Early Spring Onsets in the CESM Large Ensemble Project, R. Clim Dyn, DOI:10.1007/s00382-016-3313-2
Labe, Z.M., N.C. Johnson, and T.L Delworth (2023). Changes in United States summer temperatures revealed by explainable neural networks. Preprint. DOI: 10.22541/essoar.168987129.98069596/v1
Reexamining future projections of Arctic climate linkagesZachary Labe
10 May 2024…
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Student/Postdoc Seminar (Presentation): Reexamining future projections of Arctic climate linkages, Princeton University, USA.
References...
Labe, Z.M., Y. Peings, and G. Magnusdottir (2018), Contributions of ice thickness to the atmospheric response from projected Arctic sea ice loss,
Geophysical Research Letters, DOI:10.1029/2018GL078158
Labe, Z.M., Y. Peings, and G. Magnusdottir (2019). The effect of QBO phase on the atmospheric response to projected Arctic sea ice loss in early winter, Geophysical Research Letters, DOI:10.1029/2019GL083095
Labe, Z.M., Y. Peings, and G. Magnusdottir (2020). Warm Arctic, cold Siberia pattern: role of full Arctic amplification versus sea ice loss alone, Geophysical Research Letters, DOI:10.1029/2020GL088583
Labe, Z.M., May 2020: The effects of Arctic sea-ice thickness loss and stratospheric variability on mid-latitude cold spells. University of California, Irvine. Doctoral Dissertation.
Peings, Y., Z.M. Labe, and G. Magnusdottir (2021), Are 100 ensemble members enough to capture the remote atmospheric response to +2°C Arctic sea ice loss? Journal of Climate, DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0613.1
1) The document discusses various causes of global climate change including changes in Earth's orbit and solar radiation, albedo effects, and greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane.
2) Evidence of past climate changes is seen in temperature and carbon dioxide variations from ice cores, glacial activity, sea levels, and vegetation changes.
3) The author argues that climate change is a natural phenomenon and that the role of human-caused carbon dioxide emissions in current warming is limited and uncertain.
The document discusses several factors related to climate change:
1. It discusses three primary factors that influence Earth's orbit and axial tilt - eccentricity, axial tilt, and precession - and how these Milankovitch cycles impact climate over long time periods.
2. It explains the Ruddiman hypothesis, which suggests that human agricultural activities beginning around 8,000 years ago prevented the onset of a natural ice age, and industrialization in the 19th century further disrupted the climate cycle.
3. It provides examples of how human activities like fossil fuel use, deforestation, and agriculture have increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere like carbon dioxide and methane, driving unprecedented modern climate change.
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United States Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (USAPECS) IDEA Training Course (Presentation): Accessibility and disability in online spaces. Remote Presentation.
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26 March 2024…
GFDL Polar Climate Interest Group (Presentation): An intro to explainable AI for polar climate science, NOAA GFDL, Princeton, NJ.
References:
Labe, Z.M. and E.A. Barnes (2022), Comparison of climate model large ensembles with observations in the Arctic using simple neural networks. Earth and Space Science, DOI:10.1029/2022EA002348, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EA002348
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25 March 2024…
Climate Communication Workshop: Learn How To Make Your Research Matter (Keynote Presentation): Using accessible data to communicate global climate change, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.
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14 March 2024…
United States Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (USAPECS) Webinar (Host): Water in a Frozen Arctic: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives. Remote Panel.
Event Page: https://www.usapecs.org/post/webinar-water-frozen-arctic
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References...
Labe, Z. M., & Barnes, E. A. (2022). Comparison of climate model large ensembles with observations in the Arctic using simple neural networks. Earth and Space Science, 9(7), e2022EA002348, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EA002348
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References...
Labe, Z.M., E.A. Barnes, and J.W. Hurrell (2023). Identifying the regional emergence of climate patterns in the ARISE-SAI-1.5 simulations. Environmental Research Letters, DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/acc81a
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Department of Environmental Sciences Seminar (Presentation): Applications of machine learning for climate change and variability, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
References:
Labe, Z.M. and E.A. Barnes (2021), Detecting climate signals using explainable AI with single-forcing large ensembles. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, DOI:10.1029/2021MS002464
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Revisiting projections of Arctic climate change linkagesZachary Labe
16 November 2023…
Department Seminar (Presentation): Revisiting projections of Arctic climate change linkages, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. Remote Presentation.
References:
Labe, Z.M., Y. Peings, and G. Magnusdottir (2018), Contributions of ice thickness to the atmospheric response from projected Arctic sea ice loss, Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1029/2018GL078158
Labe, Z.M., Y. Peings, and G. Magnusdottir (2019). The effect of QBO phase on the atmospheric response to projected Arctic sea ice loss in early winter, Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1029/2019GL083095
Labe, Z.M., Y. Peings, and G. Magnusdottir (2020). Warm Arctic, cold Siberia pattern: role of full Arctic amplification versus sea ice loss alone, Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1029/2020GL088583
Peings, Y., Z.M. Labe, and G. Magnusdottir (2021), Are 100 ensemble members enough to capture the remote atmospheric response to +2°C Arctic sea ice loss?
Journal of Climate, DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0613.1
Labe, Z.M. and E.A. Barnes (2022), Comparison of climate model large ensembles with observations in the Arctic using simple neural networks. Earth and Space Science, DOI: 10.1029/2022EA002348
Using explainable machine learning to evaluate climate change projectionsZachary Labe
5 October 2023…
Atmosphere and Ocean Climate Dynamics Seminar (Presentation): Using explainable machine learning to evaluate climate change projections, Yale University, New Haven, CT. Remote Presentation.
References...
Labe, Z.M., E.A. Barnes, and J.W. Hurrell (2023). Identifying the regional emergence of climate patterns in the ARISE-SAI-1.5 simulations. Environmental Research Letters, DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/acc81a, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acc81a
Guest Lecture: Our changing Arctic in the past and futureZachary Labe
22 August 2023…
Guest lecture for “Introduction to Global Climate Change (ESS 15)” (Invited): Our changing Arctic in the past and future, University of California, Irvine, CA. Remote Presentation.
References...
Delworth, T. L., Cooke, W. F., Adcroft, A., Bushuk, M., Chen, J. H., Dunne, K. A., ... & Zhao, M. (2020). SPEAR: The next generation GFDL modeling system for seasonal to multidecadal prediction and projection. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12(3), e2019MS001895, https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019MS001895
Labe, Z.M. and E.A. Barnes (2022), Comparison of climate model large ensembles with observations in the Arctic using simple neural networks. Earth and Space Science, DOI:10.1029/2022EA002348, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EA002348
Labe, Z.M., Y. Peings, and G. Magnusdottir (2020). Warm Arctic, cold Siberia pattern: role of full Arctic amplification versus sea ice loss alone, Geophysical Research Letters, DOI:10.1029/2020GL088583, https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020GL088583
Monitoring indicators of climate change through data-driven visualizationZachary Labe
19 June 2023…
La Uni Climática - IV Edition (Presentation): Monitoring indicators of climate change through data-driven visualization. Remote Presentation.
Creative machine learning approaches for climate change detectionZachary Labe
14 April 2023…
Resnick Young Investigators Symposium (Invited Presentation): Creative machine learning approaches for climate change detection, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA. https://resnick.caltech.edu/events/resnick-symposium/2023-symposium
References:
Labe, Z.M. and E.A. Barnes (2021), Detecting climate signals using explainable AI with single-forcing large ensembles. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, DOI:10.1029/2021MS002464
Labe, Z.M. and E.A. Barnes (2022), Predicting slowdowns in decadal climate warming trends with explainable neural networks. Geophysical Research Letters, DOI:10.1029/2022GL098173
Po-Chedley, S., J.T. Fasullo, N. Siler, Z.M. Labe, E.A. Barnes, C.J.W. Bonfils, and B.D. Santer (2022). Internal variability and forcing influence model-satellite differences in the rate of tropical tropospheric warming. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI:10.1073/pnas.2209431119
24 March 2023…
NBCU Fellows Academy Workshop (Presentation): Telling data-driven climate stories, The City College of New York, USA. Remote Presentation.
Sexuality - Issues, Attitude and Behaviour - Applied Social Psychology - Psyc...PsychoTech Services
A proprietary approach developed by bringing together the best of learning theories from Psychology, design principles from the world of visualization, and pedagogical methods from over a decade of training experience, that enables you to: Learn better, faster!
Authoring a personal GPT for your research and practice: How we created the Q...Leonel Morgado
Thematic analysis in qualitative research is a time-consuming and systematic task, typically done using teams. Team members must ground their activities on common understandings of the major concepts underlying the thematic analysis, and define criteria for its development. However, conceptual misunderstandings, equivocations, and lack of adherence to criteria are challenges to the quality and speed of this process. Given the distributed and uncertain nature of this process, we wondered if the tasks in thematic analysis could be supported by readily available artificial intelligence chatbots. Our early efforts point to potential benefits: not just saving time in the coding process but better adherence to criteria and grounding, by increasing triangulation between humans and artificial intelligence. This tutorial will provide a description and demonstration of the process we followed, as two academic researchers, to develop a custom ChatGPT to assist with qualitative coding in the thematic data analysis process of immersive learning accounts in a survey of the academic literature: QUAL-E Immersive Learning Thematic Analysis Helper. In the hands-on time, participants will try out QUAL-E and develop their ideas for their own qualitative coding ChatGPT. Participants that have the paid ChatGPT Plus subscription can create a draft of their assistants. The organizers will provide course materials and slide deck that participants will be able to utilize to continue development of their custom GPT. The paid subscription to ChatGPT Plus is not required to participate in this workshop, just for trying out personal GPTs during it.
(June 12, 2024) Webinar: Development of PET theranostics targeting the molecu...Scintica Instrumentation
Targeting Hsp90 and its pathogen Orthologs with Tethered Inhibitors as a Diagnostic and Therapeutic Strategy for cancer and infectious diseases with Dr. Timothy Haystead.
The cost of acquiring information by natural selectionCarl Bergstrom
This is a short talk that I gave at the Banff International Research Station workshop on Modeling and Theory in Population Biology. The idea is to try to understand how the burden of natural selection relates to the amount of information that selection puts into the genome.
It's based on the first part of this research paper:
The cost of information acquisition by natural selection
Ryan Seamus McGee, Olivia Kosterlitz, Artem Kaznatcheev, Benjamin Kerr, Carl T. Bergstrom
bioRxiv 2022.07.02.498577; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.02.498577
ESR spectroscopy in liquid food and beverages.pptxPRIYANKA PATEL
With increasing population, people need to rely on packaged food stuffs. Packaging of food materials requires the preservation of food. There are various methods for the treatment of food to preserve them and irradiation treatment of food is one of them. It is the most common and the most harmless method for the food preservation as it does not alter the necessary micronutrients of food materials. Although irradiated food doesn’t cause any harm to the human health but still the quality assessment of food is required to provide consumers with necessary information about the food. ESR spectroscopy is the most sophisticated way to investigate the quality of the food and the free radicals induced during the processing of the food. ESR spin trapping technique is useful for the detection of highly unstable radicals in the food. The antioxidant capability of liquid food and beverages in mainly performed by spin trapping technique.
Immersive Learning That Works: Research Grounding and Paths ForwardLeonel Morgado
We will metaverse into the essence of immersive learning, into its three dimensions and conceptual models. This approach encompasses elements from teaching methodologies to social involvement, through organizational concerns and technologies. Challenging the perception of learning as knowledge transfer, we introduce a 'Uses, Practices & Strategies' model operationalized by the 'Immersive Learning Brain' and ‘Immersion Cube’ frameworks. This approach offers a comprehensive guide through the intricacies of immersive educational experiences and spotlighting research frontiers, along the immersion dimensions of system, narrative, and agency. Our discourse extends to stakeholders beyond the academic sphere, addressing the interests of technologists, instructional designers, and policymakers. We span various contexts, from formal education to organizational transformation to the new horizon of an AI-pervasive society. This keynote aims to unite the iLRN community in a collaborative journey towards a future where immersive learning research and practice coalesce, paving the way for innovative educational research and practice landscapes.
The binding of cosmological structures by massless topological defectsSérgio Sacani
Assuming spherical symmetry and weak field, it is shown that if one solves the Poisson equation or the Einstein field
equations sourced by a topological defect, i.e. a singularity of a very specific form, the result is a localized gravitational
field capable of driving flat rotation (i.e. Keplerian circular orbits at a constant speed for all radii) of test masses on a thin
spherical shell without any underlying mass. Moreover, a large-scale structure which exploits this solution by assembling
concentrically a number of such topological defects can establish a flat stellar or galactic rotation curve, and can also deflect
light in the same manner as an equipotential (isothermal) sphere. Thus, the need for dark matter or modified gravity theory is
mitigated, at least in part.
Career pathways and research opportunities in the Earth sciences
1. STUDYING AND
COMMUNICATING ARCTIC
CLIMATE CHANGE
@ZLabe
Zachary Labe
Princeton University & NOAA GFDL
20 April 2023
Mercer County
Community College
https://zacklabe.com/
4. Zack Labe
Pioneer Coal Mine Blue Whale of Catoosa Centralia Underground Fire Roadside America Greenland Sea (81°N)
Enjoy: roadside oddities, diners, and horror movies
Hobbies: gardening, #scicomm ( @ZLabe), hiking, traveling to lighthouses
Graduate work: Arctic – midlatitude climate variability (sea-ice changes)
Recent work: using AI to detect patterns of climate variability/change
Now at GFDL I am thinking about: detection and attribution of extreme events
Hometown – Linglestown,
Pennsylvania
BSc – Atmospheric Science
at Cornell University
PhD – Earth System Science
at UC Irvine
Postdoc – climate variability
using AI at Colorado State U.
Postdoc – climate change
and AI at Princeton/GFDL
he/him
6. …using tools like artificial intelligence and climate models to understand global climate change
The signal (climate change)
The noise (weather)
MY RESEARCH
DISENTANGLES
7. …using tools like artificial intelligence and climate models to understand global climate change
The signal (climate change)
The noise (weather)
MY RESEARCH
DISENTANGLES
27. Landscape of Change uses data about sea
level rise, glacier volume decline, increasing
global temperatures, and the increasing use of
fossil fuels. These data lines compose a
landscape shaped by the changing climate, a
world in which we are now living.
Jill Pelto|https://www.jillpelto.com/landscape-of-change
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