Observation and Modelling of Cloud, Convection, and Radiationusing Remote Sensing and In Situ Observations for Coupled Climate System
TITLE:
Observation and Modelling of Cloud, Convection, and Radiationusing Remote Sensing and In Situ Observations for Coupled Climate System
DATE:
Friday, March 18th, 2016
TIME:
3:30 PM
LOCATION:
GMCS 214
SPEAKER:
Dr. Jui-Lin (Frank) Li. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
ABSTRACT:
Representing clouds, convection and radiation and their complicated interactions in global weather forecast and climate models remains
a pressing challenge in reducing and quantifying uncertainties in the simulations of coupled climate system (atmosphere-land-ocean-sea ice-land ice).
This task is crucial for improving future climate projection (e.g. under global warming).
In this talk, we will first present the uncertainties using some examples of observationally-based model evaluation including model simulated surface
air temperature (SAT) from recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) climate model simulations and satellite-observed cloud water,
radiation, water vapor, sea ice, land surface temperature from various NASA satellite missions (e.g., CloudSat-CALIPSO/MODIS, CERES/CloudSat-CALIPSO,
AIRS/SSMI, and SSM/I). We will then discuss the gaps between available observations and model representations and the biases on the coupled Earth
climate system and conclude the talk with suggested future work.
HOST:
Dr. Bo-Wen Shen.
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