Congratulations to Masters student Tony Freveletti on his successful thesis defense! Tony’s work used a statistical technique called Low-Frequency Component Analysis (LFCA) to look at how sea surface temperatures vary over long time periods, and whether their variations are “internal” to the climate system or “forced” by human emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols. Based on evidence from climate models and observations, Tony found that long timescale temperature variability is mostly internal in the Pacific Ocean but forced in the Atlantic. While we expect both basins to continue warming in the future, we expect that natural variability will continue to be a major factor in the Pacific whereas do we not expect natural cooling periods to offset forced warming in the Atlantic going forward.
Diamond group @ Florida State 
Congratulations to Tony on successfully his Masters work on this important subject!
Is the presentation and/or thesis publicly available?
If so, could you please share a link?
Hi Leon, Nice to hear from you and thanks for reaching out! Tony’s work isn’t publicly available yet, but I believe the thesis will be later this summer. We’ll hopefully have a pre-print out by that time anyway though 🙂
Thanks, likewise!
Will either or both of you attend the EGU?
Would be great to meet and discuss this and more if you’re available.
Unfortunately, neither of us will be at EGU. I will, however, be at the Degrees Global Forum in Cape Town in a few weeks.