ACDC 2017 Practical details

Accommodation

All of the local expenses (accomodation, food, field work etc) will be covered by the Summer School unless otherwise agreed.

We will be staying at the Norwegian Trecking Association (DNT) cabin Rondvassbu during the week, and we'll spend the weekend in the field.

At the cabin there won't be any cell phone reception, but we will have internet connection. There will be a possibility to do laundry, but it's limited to the most essential (you must bring along your own detergent). 

Travel

From Oslo airport you can travel to Otta by train (Regional train towards Trondheim) or by bus. Everyone should be at the Otta train station by 17:33 on Sunday 10th September. Please see NSB.no for tickets. From Otta to Spranget there will be organized transport, and we have to walk the last 6 km (~1.5h) to Rondvassbu. 

On Friday 22nd, we aim to leave on the 18:38 train from Otta to Oslo Airport (also continuing to Oslo main station).

International evening

To celebrate all the nationalities represented at the ACDC Summer School, we ask participants to bring a food item special for their home country. Please remember to declare the food item at customs if required. What food items you can bring to Norway is found on the Norwegian Customs service web page.

What to bring

We want to limit the amount of rubbish we produce, so we will not provide paper or plastic cups and plates in the field. We plan for a two night stay in the field.

• Wind and waterproof clothing (jacket and trousers)
• Warm clothes
• Indoor shoes
• Hat, scarf and mittens
• Travel insurance
• Lunch box
• Water bottle
• Thermos
• Camera (we encourage students and lecturers to share their pictures)
• Backpack (no suitcase!)
• Plate, cup, fork, spoon and knife.
• Proper hiking boots
• Laptop (+ memory stick for student presentations; 8 minute presentation - maximum 8 slides)
• Mosquito repellent
• Sleeping mat
• Sleeping bag (and if you prefer not to sleep in the sleeping bag in the cabin, bed linen or sleeping bag liner )
• Towel
• Tent
• Sun screen
• Sun glasses
• Head torch

Program

The program can be found here

Reading material for the lectures

Tropical climate variability/ENSO:

S.-P. Xie (1994) On the Genesis of the Equatorial Annual Cycle. J. Clim., 7: 2008-2013, doi:10.1175/1520-0442(1994)007<2008:OTGOTE>2.0.CO;2 

Stuecker et al. (2015) Combination model dynamics of the anomalous North West Pacific Anticyclone. J. Clim., 28: 1093-1111, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00225.1

Stein et al. (2014) ENSO Seasonal Synchronization Theory. J. Clim., 27: 5285-5310, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00525.1

Seasonal cycle of the extratropical atmosphere: 

Chapter 6 of textbook Global Physical Climatology, 2nd Edition, Hartmann (Elsevier Science)

- Section 1 (introduction) of http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.earth.34.031405.125144

- first 4 pages of http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v9/n9/abs/ngeo2783.html

Radiative forcing: 

Huybers and Curry (2006) Links between annual, Milankvitch and continuum tempearture variability. Nature, 441: 329-332, doi:10.1038/nature04745

McKinnon and Huybers (2014) On using the seasonal cycle to interpret extratropical tempearture changes since 1950. Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, doi: 10.1002/2014GL060404

Daradich et al. (2017) The influence of true polar wander on glacial inception in North America. ESPSL, 461: 96-104, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.12.036 

Rhines at al. (2017) Seasonally resolved distributional trends of North American temperatures show contradiction of winter variability. J. Clim., 30:1139-1157, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0363.s1

McKinnon et al. (2016) The changing shape of Northern Hemisphere summer temperature distributions. J. Geophys. Res., 121: 8849-8868, doi: 10.1002/2016JD025292

Mueller at al. (2015) Cooling of US Midwest summer tempearture extremes from cropland intensification. Nature Clim. Change, 6: 317-322, doi: 10.1038/NCLIMATE2825 

Historical variability in the seasonal cycle and seasonal proxies:

Stine, Huybers and Fung (2009) Changes in the phase of the annual cycle of surface temperature. Nature, 457:435-440, doi: 10.1038/nature07675

Stine and Huybers (2012) Changes in the seasonal cycle of temperature and atmospheric circulation. J. Clim., 25: 7362-7380, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00470.1

Implications of Liebig's law of the minimum for tree-ring reconstructions of climate (Unpublished manuscript)

Ludlow et al. (2013) Medieval Irish chronicles reveal persistent volcanic forcing of severe winter cold events, 431-1649 CE. Environ. Res. Lett., 8: 204035, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/2/024035

Volcanic suppression of the Nile triggers revolt and constraints interstate conflict in Ancient Egypt (Unpublished manuscript)

Energy balance:

D. S. Battisti, The energy balance model