This page contains a collection of my journal publications, posters and presentations.

Publications

  • J. Ridley, J. Lowe, C. Brierley and G. Harris (2007), "Uncertainty in the sensitivity of Arctic sea ice to global warming in a perturbed parameter climate model ensemble", Geophysical Research Letters, Vol 34, L19704

  • Collins M., C. M. Brierley, M. MacVean, B. B. B. Booth and G. Harris (2007) The Sensivity of the Rate of Transient Climate Change to Ocean Physics Perturbations, Journal of Climate, vol. 20(10), pp. 2315–2320.

  • Brierley (2007) Ocean model uncertainty and time-dependent climate projections, PhD thesis, University of Reading (submitted, December 2006 and accepted March 2007)

  • Brierley (2006) Ocean parameter perturbations for ensemble climate prediction with climateprediction.net and QUMP, unpublished manuscript, University of Reading. This is my recipe book of parameters for ocean model perturbations to be made at both HadCM3L and HadCM3 resolution. Most of the information is also presented as chapter 2 in my thesis. Should you wish to implement these changes, please email me and I can tell you how to do it. It is referenced the Collins et al. (2007) paper, that's linked above.

Presentations

  • Permanent El Nino Conditions and the Meridional Expansion of the Tropical Ocean Warm-Water Pool in the Early Pliocene: Modeling Global Impacts with an Atmospheric GCMAGU Fall Meeting, December 2007 - “Permanent El Nino Conditions and the Meridional Expansion of the Tropical Ocean Warm-Water Pool in the Early Pliocene: Modeling Global Impacts with an Atmospheric GCM”

  • Chapa Club 2006 – “Spatial Patterns of Climate Change in HadCM3” This presents the ensemble mean patterns from my perturbed ocean physics ensemble. The results are the average of year 61-80 from an 1% increase in carbon dioxide, so are centred on the time of CO2 doubling. It has a useful list of references for HadCM3 and climate change in it.

  • AGU Ocean Sciences, 2006 – “Incorporating and Quantifying Ocean Uncertainty in Ensemble Climate Prediction”, OS52P-05 in the session on Ocean Convection, Heat Transport and Storage, and Climate.

  • Talk to Ocean Group 2nd February 2006 – “The Relative Certainty of Ocean Parameters”

  • Royal Meteorological Society biennial conference, 2005 – “Including Ocean Model Uncertainties in Climate Predictions”

  • Departmental Poster Session, October 2005 - "The effect of Isopycnal Mixing in HadCM3"

  • Chapa Club October 2005 – “Opal Fruits: made to make your mouth water”

  • Earth System Sciences Summer School, September 2004 - "Ocean Model Uncertainty" I created this early on, and it describes why ocean model uncertainty exists.

Podcasts

  • Ocean Parameter Perturbations – My contribution to climateprediction.net's Open Day, 2006. It's 15 minute long a description of the 4 ocean parameter perturbations, with a attached slides. The slides will work in iTunes 4.9 or greater, and color iPods