Wednesday 13 June 2012

Masters Marketing Feedback

Hi Everyone,

Some (or all) of you may be contacted by the University (marketing) shortly to provide some answers to questions about our MSc courses. I would be very grateful if you could please respond to any brief questionnaires etc...it would be much appreciated.

Thanks
Mark

Monday 11 June 2012

SEMINAR: Solar variability and influences on climate.

Solar variability and influences on climate.


Professor Joanna Haigh,
Imperial College London.

Tuesday, 19th June 2012, 18:00 (Coffee & tea from 17:40)
Lecture Room T0.03, John Dalton Building,


Abstract: This talk will review some of the observational evidence for an influence of solar activity on the climate of the lower atmosphere and discuss mechanisms which might be responsible. During the most recent solar cycle minimum (2008-9) the Sun was in a state of very low activity and its ongoing behaviour suggests that the next maximum will be of low amplitude. Further, some satellite measurements have suggested that the solar spectrum has been behaving in a strange and unexpected way. The implications of different spectra for radiative forcing and for climate effects through stratosphere-troposphere coupling will be discussed.