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KECK INSTITUTE FOR SPACE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF STUDIES TECHNOLOGY
Short Course: Climate Physics and Geoengineering Monday, May 23, 2011 8:00 A.M. Coffee 8:30 A.M. - 12:30 P.M. Short Course Salvatori Seminar Room, South Mudd Building - California Institute of Technology
Speakers: Mike McCracken (Climate Institute) - Motivations for considering geoengineering (including "climate emergencies"), overview of key physical processes and geoengineering Alan Robock (Rutgers University) - Stratospheric aerosols, their effects on radiative forcing, analogues (volcanoes) & risks Graham Feingold (NOAA) - Cloudaerosol microphysics, effects of marine and high clouds on albedo & climate, analogoues (ship tracks), and risks Thomas H. Painter (JPL) - Surface cover effects on albedo & climate, analogues (dust on snow), and risks Phil Rasch (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) - Modeling Climate Physics: challenges & climate sensivity studies
Short Course: Climate Physics and Geoengineering
Mike McCracken, Climate Institute
The Potential for Climate (Geo-) Engineering to Help to Limit Global Warming to 2 Degrees Celsius Over Pre-Industrial (68 MB .pdf) (video) (pdf of Climate Slides of Yore)
Alan Robock, Rutgers University
Volcanic Aerosols as an Analog for Geoengineering (11 MB .pdf)
Graham Feingold, NOAA
Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation Interactions in Warm Clouds (19 MB .pdf) (video)
Thomas H. Painter, JPL
Influences of Dust and Black Carbon on Melt of Snow and Ice: Mitigation and Geoengineering (70 MB .pdf) (video)