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The Physics Colloquium "Climate System Dynamics: Numerical and toy models for the temperature response to greenhouse gas forcing"

Speaker: Cristian Proistosescu (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) ((Climate Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences))
Date: 12/10/2025
Time: 4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Location: Loomis Lab 141
Event Contact: Danielle Swigart
dswigart@illinois.edu
Sponsor: Department of Physics
Event Type: Seminar/Symposium
 

Climate sensitivity quantifies the long-term warming the Earth will experience in response to the additional energy trapped by greenhouse gases.

In this talk, I will give you a flavor of the work done by the Climate Dynamics and Data Science group to better constrain and understand climate sensitivity. I will showcase two projects. The first is an effort to improve numerical models of Earth’s Climate through a combination of Perturbed Physics Ensembles and AI emulators. The second is a toy model examining how the non-normality of the climate response operator may lead to continued warming even after we stop CO2 emissions.