April 22th, 2016 (Taken from News@stfx)

Dr. Hugo Beltrami, Canada Research Chair in Climate Dynamics at StFX, and several graduate students are currently presenting their research at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, a large, important international meeting taking place in Vienna from April 17-22.

Three graduate students present at the conference are Etor Lucio-Eceiza (PhD - U. Complutense de Madrid), Almudena Garcia-Garcia (MSc -StFX), and Francisco Cuesta-Valero (MSc - StFX). Also involved in the research are Fernando Jaume-Santero and Carolyne Pickler.

 

“This is very good exposure for our work and a very good experience for the graduate students to meet the world's top climate scientists,” Dr. Beltrami says. The team will make eight presentations at the event this week.

 

“This is important to get to know as much as possible the latest developments in climate research,” he says.

 

Two of his masters students will be continuing on with Dr. Beltrami for a PhD in climate sciences in conjunction with Memorial University of Newfoundland.

 

Their presentations at the EGU this week include: 

 

- Statistical Downscaling of a surface wind field over northeastern North America: annual to centennial variability.

Etor E. Lucio-Eceiza, J. Fidel González-Rouco, Jorge Navarro, Elena García-Bustamante, and Hugo Beltrami.

 

- Thermal Coupling between Air and Ground Temperatures in the CMIP5 Historical and Future Simulations

Almudena García-García, Francisco José Cuesta-Valero, Hugo Beltrami, and Jason Smerdon

- Estimating Continental Energy Storage from CMIP5 Simulations

Francisco José Cuesta-Valero, Almudena García-García, Hugo Beltrami, and Jason Smerdon

 

- Quality Control Methodology Of A Surface Wind Observational Database In North Eastern North America

Etor E. Lucio-Eceiza, J. Fidel González-Rouco, Jorge Navarro, Jorge Conte, and Hugo Beltrami

 

- Laurentide Ice Sheet basal temperatures at the Last Glacial Cycle as inferred from borehole data

Jean-Claude Mareschal, Carolyne Pickler, and Hugo Beltrami

 

- Simulation of Air and Ground Temperatures in PMIP3/CMIP5 Last Millennium Simulations: Implications for Climate Reconstructions from Borehole Temperature Profiles

Hugo Beltrami, Almudena García-García, Francisco José Cuesta-Valero, and Jason Smerdon

 

- North American regional climate reconstruction from underground temperatures.

Fernando Jaume-Santero, Hugo Beltrami, and Jean-Claude Mareschal

 

- Ground surface temperature histories in northern Ontario and Québec for the past 500 years

Carolyne Pickler, Hugo Beltrami, and Jean-Claude Mareschal