The Physics Colloquium "Climate System Dynamics: Numerical and toy models for the temperature response to greenhouse gas forcing"
| Speaker: |
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Cristian Proistosescu (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) ((Climate Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences)) |
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| 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. |