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The hydrologic cycle in deep-time climate problems

Nature Springer Nature 419:6903 (2002) 191-198
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Surface quasigeostrophic turbulence: The study of an active scalar

Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science AIP Publishing 12:2 (2002) 439-450

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Jai Sukhatme, Raymond T Pierrehumbert
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Testing paleogeographic controls on a Neoproterozoic snowball Earth

Geophysical Research Letters American Geophysical Union (AGU) 29:11 (2002) 10-1-10-4

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Christopher J Poulsen, Robert L Jacob, Raymond T Pierrehumbert, Tran T Huynh
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Bifurcations and instabilities in rotating, two-layer fluids: II. beta-plane

NONLINEAR PROC GEOPH 9:3-4 (2002) 289-309

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AF Lovegrove, IM Moroz, PL Read

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In this paper, we show that the behavior of weakly nonlinear waves in a 2-layer model of baroclinic instability on a P-plane with varying viscosity is determined by a single degenerate codimension three bifurcation. In the process, we show how previous studies, using the method of multiple scales to derive evolution equations for the slowly varying amplitude of the growing wave, arise as special limits of the general evolution description.
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Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises

National Academies Press, 2002

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Committee on Abrupt Climate Change, National Research Council, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Polar Research Board, Ocean Studies Board

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Based on the best and most current research available, this book surveys the history of climate change and makes a series of specific recommendations for the future.