Piotr J.
Flatau
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
The 2021 Nobel Prize was awarded in part to Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselman for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate. In this talk I will discuss the 1964 paper of Manabe and Strickler on “Thermal Equilibrium of the Atmosphere with a Convective Adjustment” but I will try to put it into a modern context and overview present understanding of physics of climate change. I will begin with observations. The concept of Earth Energy Imbalance (EEI) will be introduced and its measurements including GRACE satellite mission and ARGO floats will be discussed. Next, I will move to the theoretical aspects of the climate change problem. I will begin with a description of Global Circulation Models, 4D Var data assimilation, weather reanalysis. Next, I will touch on physics of 1-dimensional stick models which are used to parameterize physical processes in Global Climate Models. I will finalize with comments on climate research and observational challenges including k-scale modeling and future climate observational systems.
This is an online event.
Link: https://zoom.us/j/82380380442?pwd=Z3IyeEhlZmFHU1B2M2VUVVJhODkrUT09 (Passcode: 134595, Meeting ID: 823 8038 0442)
