Previously I've
worked on aerosol - climate interactions and various topics in climate variability and climate change.
Seriously, isn't all
this work on aerosols roughly equivalent to trying to plug in yet more epicycles to make the Ptolemaic model of the universe continue to work?
Not exact matches
And by carefully measuring and modeling the resulting changes in atmospheric composition, scientists could improve their estimate of how sensitive Earth's climate is to CO2, said lead author Joyce Penner, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Michigan whose
work focuses
on improving global climate models and their ability to model the interplay between clouds and
aerosol particles.
Rosenfeld and his colleagues are now
working on a project to do exactly that by studying
aerosol concentrations over Houston, where the team also has access to a dedicated lightning - mapping array.
What's next: The team is
working to gather additional field data and perform further simulations to accurately address
aerosol effects
on clouds.
In future
work, the team will tackle the
aerosol effects
on precipitation.
He is particularly interested in the role of
aerosols and clouds in the atmosphere, and has
worked on the processes that describe these components of the atmosphere, the computational details that are needed to describe them in computer models, and
on their impact
on climate.
He is a co-chair of the U.S. Department of Energy's Atmospheric Systems Research Cloud -
Aerosol - Precipitation Interactions
Working Group, co-chair of the CESM Climate - Chemistry
Working Group, and served 6 years
on the Scientific Steering Committee for the Community Earth System Model.
Scientists
working on a future satellite — the Plankton,
Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission — sets sail in January from Hawaii.
Throughout the last 25 years The Artful Dodger's
work has taken a personal evolution through letterform, from Gothic Calligraphy and
aerosol writing
on the streets of London, through to Psychovisualistics — a soulful expression of light and colour which he describes as being «visual music».
The last artist is Donzeaud himself with a large - scale silksreen print and
aerosol paint
on tarp and wood
work titled «Ordinary Objects for Common Use (Couch)».
However, this exhibition which is part of #BiennialFringe 2016 and touching
on the LIMF, brings
aerosol into the arena of mixed media, and it
works.
Mail Art is a particularly well - represented field with such titles as, «Smile,» «Bile» and «Vile» (all takeoffs
on «LIFE»), «Omnibus News,» (from 1969), Italian Vittore Baroni's «ArtePostale,» and two
works from Belgium, Guy Schraenen's «Libellus,» and «
Aerosol,» edited by Roger Avau.
Much
work is being done
on improving the realism of such effects — particularly through ozone chemistry (which enhances the signal), and
aerosol pathways (which don't appear to have much of a global effect i.e. Dunne et al. (2016)-RRB-.
It is actually quite difficult to
work that out and depends enormously
on what kind of environment the extra clouds /
aerosols are in (this is one of the big «missing steps»).
As I said to Andy Revkin (and he published
on his blog), the additional decade of temperature data from 2000 onwards (even the AR4 estimates typically ignored the post-2000 years) can only
work to reduce estimates of sensitivity, and that's before we even consider the reduction in estimates of negative
aerosol forcing, and additional forcing from black carbon (the latter being very new, is not included in any calculations AIUI).
[T] here have now been several recent papers showing much the same — numerous factors including: the increase in positive forcing (CO2 and the recent
work on black carbon), decrease in estimated negative forcing (
aerosols), combined with the stubborn refusal of the planet to warm as had been predicted over the last decade, all makes a high climate sensitivity increasingly untenable.
This paper re-states the grand Svensmark theory and attempts to address the
work that has shown cosmic rays can not be a significant influence
on climate because most
aerosols run out of stuff to become big enough for cloud formation.
Here are a few of the problems that need to be
worked out: There's the issue of the effect of the
aerosols on stratospheric chemistry (think how unanticipated the chemistry of the Ozone Hole was), and the question of just where the
aerosols would go once injected.
on politics and scum: http://assets.amuniversal.com/35c1a7d08eea01332d07005056a9545d On a different tangent, Russell will be pleased — perhaps, I can never be sure — with the current text on aerosols at https://www.aip.org/history/climate/Winter.htm... The scientists did this work mainly for public consumptio
on politics and scum: http://assets.amuniversal.com/35c1a7d08eea01332d07005056a9545d
On a different tangent, Russell will be pleased — perhaps, I can never be sure — with the current text on aerosols at https://www.aip.org/history/climate/Winter.htm... The scientists did this work mainly for public consumptio
On a different tangent, Russell will be pleased — perhaps, I can never be sure — with the current text
on aerosols at https://www.aip.org/history/climate/Winter.htm... The scientists did this work mainly for public consumptio
on aerosols at https://www.aip.org/history/climate/Winter.htm... The scientists did this
work mainly for public consumption.
Contribution from
working group I to the fifth assessment report by IPCC TS.5.4.1 Projected Near - term Changes in Climate Projections of near - term climate show small sensitivity to Green House Gas scenarios compared to model spread, but substantial sensitivity to uncertainties in
aerosol emissions, especially
on regional scales and for hydrological cycle variables.
The cosmic ray particles
work let's say like a «glue» that puts together all the already formed condensation nuclei in the atmospheric air, creating therefore bigger condensation nuclei and finally the clouds, or the cosmic particles act as
aerosols on their own,
on which the water vapour condenses?
Prof Piers Forster, a physical climate scientist at Leeds University and lead author of the chapter
on clouds and
aerosols in
working group one of the last IPCC report, tells Carbon Brief:
Postdoctoral
work at Environment Canada and at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UK) gave her opportunities to develop research
on cloud -
aerosol interactions through in - situ measurements with research aircraft.
But Julian, a simple model - obs matchup in the temperature field is not how formal attribution is done, and I agree that the
aerosol forcing uncertainty makes such simple comparisons problematic (see Knutti's
work on this for example).
The models adjusted this correlation and tried to blame
aerosols on this, but the main problem being adjusting for warming periods and recent non-warming period it just doesn't
work at all.
I've done it with the ENSO signal once, but I didn't figure out how to do it with the volcanic
aerosol signal until just recently, so I'm still
working on this one.
Furthermore, conceptual
work on the potentially chaotic nature of the ISM (70) has been developed (V. Petoukhov, K. Zickfeld, and H.J.S., unpublished
work) to suggest that under some plausible decadal - scale scenarios of land use and greenhouse gas and
aerosol forcing, switches occur between two highly nonlinear metastable regimes of the chaotic oscillations corresponding to the «active» and «weak» monsoon phases,
on the intraseasonal and interannual timescales.
The Postdoc will
work on the topic of cloud and
aerosol physics over Antarctica in collaboration with modelers and observationalists at NASA GISS, the University of Leicester, Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory, which is supported by the Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program.
We hear about «run - away» greenhouse effect
on Venus, without any explanation of how this is possible with 100 % cloud cover if albedo and
aerosols works as we think they do.
By 1994, with
work on SAR progressing, the Special Report
on Radiative Forcing (IPCC, 1995) reported significant breakthroughs in a set of chapters limited to assessment of the carbon cycle, atmospheric chemistry,
aerosols and RF.
Although not directly related to climate modeling much of the climate related
work depends
on an accurate picture of the role
aerosols and dry air play in the development of deep concection
I,
on the other hand, am worried about the impact of a technology that has unknown consequences for the environment, and which in some regards is definitely known not to
work — c.f the fact that it does nothing for ocean acidification, and also the implications of the mismatch in time scale between
aerosols and CO2.
I am currently
working on a variety of topics related to
aerosol research and their sources, sinks, and interactions with climate at various levels of complexity.
Topics that I
work on or plan to
work in the future include studies of: + missing
aerosol species and sources, such as the primary oceanic
aerosols and their importance
on the remote marine atmosphere, the in - cloud and
aerosol water aqueous formation of organic
aerosols that can lead to brown carbon formation, the primary terrestrial biological particles, and the organic nitrogen + missing
aerosol parameterizations, such as the effect of
aerosol mixing
on cloud condensation nuclei and
aerosol absorption, the semi-volatility of primary organic
aerosols, the importance of in - canopy processes
on natural terrestrial
aerosol and
aerosol precursor sources, and the mineral dust iron solubility and bioavailability + the change of
aerosol burden and its spatiotemporal distribution, especially with regard to its role and importance
on gas - phase chemistry via photolysis rates changes and heterogeneous reactions in the atmosphere, as well as their effect
on key gas - phase species like ozone + the physical and optical properties of
aerosols, which affect
aerosol transport, lifetime, and light scattering and absorption, with the latter being very sensitive to the vertical distribution of absorbing
aerosols +
aerosol - cloud interactions, which include cloud activation, the
aerosol indirect effect and the impact of clouds
on aerosol removal + changes
on climate and feedbacks related with all these topics In order to understand the climate system as a whole, improve the
aerosol representation in the GISS ModelE2 and contribute to future IPCC climate change assessments and CMIP activities, I am also interested in understanding the importance of natural and anthropogenic
aerosol changes in the atmosphere
on the terrestrial biosphere, the ocean and climate.
But Wolkoff didn't see eye to eye with this burgeoning creative adventure, arguing that the outdoor
aerosol artists had to know that one day the buildings they
worked on would be torn down.