Topics for MSc Literature Seminar

Master seminar 2018: "Nature" highlights from 2017/2018

A range of papers from the journals „Nature Geoscience“ and „Nature Climate Change“ is offered. All journal articles were published 2017 or 2018 and had considerable impact in media and scientific literature.

We expect all students who want to take part to:

  1. select a topic and notify the advisor and Tobias Zinner before end of July!
  2. meet with your advisor to identify the material for a presentation soon. I.e. find secondary literature to be used whereever needed.
  3. meet with your advisor at least one more time before the seminar. At this meeting you should go through the final presentation with the advisor in time for last changes. Consequently, this meeting should take place in the beginning of the seminar week, the first week of October.

The advisors mentioned in the list are not particular experts for the article's specific field. They adopted the topic from the given list just before you. Hopefully this generates a lively seminar atmosphere without the fear to embarass yourself in front of experts.

The talk should include some introductory general material on the topic, the main new outcomes presented in the given publication and details on one aspect or method of analysis and/or contradicting/controversial opinions.

Contact: Tobias Zinner.

Papers

  1. The carbon footprint of global tourism, abstract, PDF (Tobias Kölling)
  2. Towards real-time verification of CO2 emissions, abstract, PDF (Tobias Kölling)
  3. Key indicators to track current progress and future ambition of the Paris Agreement, abstract, PDF, (Julien Savre)
  4. Causes of differences in model and satellite tropospheric warming rates, abstract,PDF, (Thomas Birner)
  5. Scenarios towards limiting global mean temperature increase below 1.5 °C, abstract, PDF (Julien Savre)
  6. Increased rainfall volume from future convective storms in the US, abstract, PDF, (Christian Keil), Presentation: Sheena Löffel
  7. Biomass-based negative emissions difficult to reconcile with planetary boundaries, abstract, PDF, (Christoph Knote)
  8. Slower snowmelt in a warmer world, abstract, PDF, (Claudia Emde), Presentation: Richard Maier
  9. Historical carbon dioxide emissions caused by land-use changes are possibly larger than assumed, abstract, PDF, (Tobias Zinner) Presentation: Cansu Duran
  10. Consistency and discrepancy in the atmospheric response to Arctic sea-ice loss across climate models, abstract, PDF, (Thomas Birner) Presentation: Laura Stecher
  11. Top-of-atmosphere radiative forcing affected by brown carbon in the upper troposphere, abstract, PDF, (Christoph Knote)
  12. Hemispheric climate shifts driven by anthropogenic aerosol–cloud interactions, abstract, PDF, (Christoph Knote)
  13. Understanding the regional pattern of projected future changes in extreme precipitation, abstract, PDF, (Tobias Zinner) Presentation: Veronika Pörtge
  14. Balancing Europe’s wind-power output through spatial deployment informed by weather regimes, abstract, PDF, (Christian Keil) Presentation: Natasha Wright
  15. Enhanced poleward propagation of storms under climate change, abstract, PDF, (Thomas Birner) Presentation: Sebastian Stadler
  16. Halfway to doubling of CO2 radiative forcing, abstract, PDF, (Claudia Emde)
  17. The changing hail threat over North America in response to anthropogenic climate change, abstract (PDF) + abstract 2(PDF2), (Tobias Zinner) Presentation: Markus Laufmann
  18. Clearing clouds of uncertainty, abstract, PDF, (Joseph Schröttle)
  19. Climate goals and computing the future of clouds, abstract, PDF, (Joseph Schröttle), Presentation: Raphael Kriegmair

Stand Juni 2018