Seminar: Dr. Yi Huang

Please join us as we welcome our very own Dr. Yi Huang for his seminar titled "A few things we recently learned about radiative forcing". Coffee will be served.

Abstract

Radiative forcing refers to the perturbation of Earth radiation energy balance by a greenhouse gas, e.g., CO2, or another agent. The capacity of radiative forcing for climate prediction depends on the quantification of the forcing as well as the sensitivity of climate. In this talk, I will discuss a few issues concerning the radiative forcing-based climate prediction framework, including 1) the logarithmic scaling behavior of greenhouse gas radiative forcing, 2) its strong dependency on other atmospheric variables and its distribution pattern arising from such dependency, 3) the limitation of the predictability in a case of stratospheric ozone recovery, and 4) the potential of predicting other aspects of climate change than global surface temperature.