Oceans at MIT

Striving to understand, harness and sustain Earth's defining frontier.

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America/New_York

20171105T020000 -0400 -0500 20181104T020000 EST 20180311T020000 -0500 -0400 EDT tqot1h0n30brahq5lruqdg0ggo@google.com 20180503T095239Z Title: The response of tropical low clouds to climate change Abstract: Uncertainties in how tropical low clouds respond to climate change continue to dominate climate projections. They have resisted reduction for decades. Because of a convergence of what is feasible computationally on large scales (general circulation models) and small scales (large-eddy simulations), and because of the wealth of detailed observations that are now available, substantial progress on the low-cloud problem is now within reach. In this talk, I will describe recent progress in: (a) constraining the low-cloud response to climate change observationally, (b) understanding how the large-scale energy balance controls the low-cloud response, and (c) simulating the low-cloud response with large-eddy simulations that are driven in a way that respects the large-scale energy balance. The results consistently indicate a positive feedback from tropical low clouds on global warming. For more information, please see our PAOC Colloquium event page at: https://paocweb.mit.edu/events/calendars/colloquium 20161017T120000 20161017T130000 Ida Green Lounge (9th Floor), Building 54, Cambridge, MA, United States 0

PAOC Colloquium: Tapio Schneider (Caltech)