Possible Paper Topics: May add more later

I have provided some references as a starting point. You can use these to find more recent or older references using, say, Web of Science, or Google Scholar. Try to include the key classical references and bring everything up to date. Include only references that add something significant and new. Keep it punchy and not too long. What is known for sure? Where are the key uncertainties? What should be done next?

1. The global warming hiatus, lessons for climate science.

(Huber and Knutti 2014) (Meehl et al. 2016) (Medhaug et al. 2017)

2. Modes of ocean variability and their importance for climate change prediction.

(Deser et al. 2010) (Kim et al. 2012; Mochizuki et al. 2010) (Power et al. 2006; Wang et al. 2008) (Capotondi et al. 2015) (Kohyama and Hartmann 2017)

3. The cloud feedback dipole, why?

(Zelinka et al. 2012a, 2012b) (Ceppi et al. 2015; McCoy et al. 2015) (Ceppi et al. 2016)

4. Why are aerosols a 20^th Century Problem?

(Kinne et al. 2013) (Stevens 2015) (Seinfeld et al. 2016)

5. Ocean heat storage, a dynamic problem.

(Di Lorenzo et al. 2008) (Rao et al. 2002) (Chambers et al. 1997) (Qiu and Chen 2012)

6. Salinity trends and the hydrologic cycle.

(Durack et al. 2012)

7. The “wet get wetter, dry get drier” paradigm of climate change.

(Held and Soden 2006)

8. Why will the subtropics get drier?

(Seager et al. 2007)

9. The FAT and the PHAT hypothesis.

(Harrop and Hartmann 2012) (Zelinka and Hartmann 2010)

10. Why are tropical convective clouds radiatively neutral?

(Ichikawa et al. 2012) (Hartmann et al. 2001)

11. Why is low cloud feedback positive, or not?

(Sherwood et al. 2014) (Bretherton and Blossey 2014)

12. Annular modes and climate change.

(Gerber and Son 2014; Spence et al. 2014) (Ceppi and Hartmann 2015)

13. Why most of the Arctic sea ice decline of the past decade or two is natural, or not.

(Proshutinsky and Johnson 1997) (Ogi et al. 2008)

14. Why does the CO2 go up and down during ice ages and interglacials?

(Anderson et al. 2009; Sigman and Boyle 2000) (Skinner et al. 2014)

15. Why do CMIP models predict a more El Niño like condition with warming?

(van Oldenborgh et al. 2005) (Guilyardi 2006) (Fedorov and Philander 2000) (Yeh et al. 2014) (Russell and Gnanadesikan 2014) (Cai et al. 2014) (Zhang and Li 2014)

16. Why does the Hadley Cell expand with global warming? Compare and contrast with ENSO.

(Kang and Lu 2012; Tandon et al. 2013) (Seager et al. 2010)

17. What’s all this recent hype about sea ice and the polar vortex?

(Francis and Vavrus 2012; Kim et al. 2014) (Barnes 2013) (Cohen et al. 2014) (Peings and Magnusdottir 2015) (Barnes and Polvani 2015)

18. Why is the albedo the same in the North and the South?

(Voigt et al. 2014a; Voigt et al. 2014b)

19. Why has Antarctic Sea Ice been expanding the past 30 years.

(Polvani and Smith 2013) (Simpkins et al. 2012) (Parkinson and Cavalieri 2012) (Hall and Visbeck 2002) (Waugh 2014)

20. Explaining the Dust Bowl.

(Schubert et al. 2009; Seager and Hoerling 2014)

21. Why is the Southern Ocean so important?

(Meredith and King 2005) (Gille 2008) (Gille 2010) (Atkinson et al. 2004) (Boning et al. 2008)

22. Why are ocean topographic (and other) measurements from satellites cool?

(Chambers et al. 1997) (Willis et al. 2004) (Chelton et al. 2007) (Fu et al. 2010) (Gaube et al. 2013)

23. What caused the Younger Dryas event?

(Boslough et al. 2013; Buizert et al. 2014; Haug et al. 2001; Ritz et al. 2013; Steinthorsdottir et al. 2014; Zhang et al. 2013)

24. Why was there a warm blob in the NE Pacific in 2013-15, and what does it mean?

(Hartmann 2015; Seager et al. 2014)

25. The IRIS Hypothesis

(Lindzen et al. 2001) (Mauritsen and Stevens 2015) (Choi et al. 2017) (Bony et al. 2016)

26. The great tropical cyclone debate.

(Emanuel 2005; Webster et al. 2005) (Zhang et al. 2016)

27. The double-ITCZ problem in climate models.

(Li and Xie 2014; Lin 2007) (Hwang and Frierson 2013)

28. What is the most interesting problem in paleoclimatology?

(Coxall et al. 2005; Miller et al. 2012; Miller et al. 2011)

29. Arctic/Polar Amplification

(Pithan and Mauritsen 2014) (Graversen et al. 2014)

30. Geoengineering – Feasible or not?

(Wu et al. 2015) (Irvine et al. 2016; Smyth et al. 2017; Wood et al. 2017)

31. Decadal Prediction

(Meehl et al. 2014)

32. RCE and feedbacks.

(Becker et al. 2017; Silvers et al. 2016; Stevens et al. 2016; Webb et al. 2017)

33. “Your idea here”

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