GC017
The Flows of Energy Through the Climate System
Session ID#: 252826
Session Description:
The radiative energy fluxes absorbed by the Earth system are the main drivers of climate variability, regulating global temperature, affecting oceanic and atmospheric circulations, and interacting with the hydrological and carbon cycles. This session concerns various aspects of Earth’s energy budget and the variability in its radiative and non-radiative components, as well as the processes yielding such changes and their implications on multiple time and spatial scales. In particular, we invite observational and modeling studies that aim at the improved understanding of the magnitude and variability in energy fluxes, radiative effects and feedbacks, and the increase in top-of-atmosphere net radiative fluxes, especially since 2023. The topic also includes assessments of Earth’s energy imbalance, heat uptake, and energy flows in the atmosphere, ocean, land, and across their boundaries. Studies on the implications of heat uptake for sea level, the cryosphere, the hydrological and carbon cycles are also welcome.
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Index Terms:
1635 Oceans [GLOBAL CHANGE]
3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3310 Clouds and cloud feedbacks [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3359 Radiative processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Primary Convener: Maria Zita Hakuba, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, Pasadena, United States
Conveners: Seiji Kato, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States and Martin Wild, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Downward Heat Pump Due to Subtropical Extreme Thermal Events Lead to Global Deep Ocean Warming (1885851)
Jiayi Zhang, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, Shijian Hu, Hohai University, Nanjing, China and Janet Sprintall, Univ California San Diego, La Jolla, United States
The Hidden radiative effect of clouds in clear sky across cloud regimes (1886471)
Eshkol Eytan1, Jake Joseph Gristey2, Isabel McCoy1 and Graham Feingold3, (1)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, (2)CIRES / NOAA CSL / LASP, Boulder, United States, (3)NOAA CSL, Boulder, United States
Temperature Change in Mode Water Source Regions (1896477)
Dr. Yuanyuan Song, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States and Gael Forget, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Measuring Earth’s Energy Imbalance using spaceborne accelerometers (1909805)
Lluc R Busquets1, Maria Zita Hakuba2, David N Wiese3, R Steven Nerem4 and Christopher M McCullough3, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, Pasadena, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
The Atmosphere’s Substantial Role in Interannual Variability of Earth’s Energy Imbalance (1925522)
Gregory C Johnson, University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, United States, Michael Mayer, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom, Norman G Loeb, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, John M Lyman, JIMAR/PMEL, Seattle, WA, United States and Susanna Winkelbauer, University of Vienna, Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, Vienna, Austria
Accessing the Angular Dimension of Earth's Radiative Energy Budget with Libera's Wide-Field-of-View Camera (Invited) (1940148)
Sebastian Schmidt1, Jake Gristey2, Peter Pilewskie3, Hong Chen1 and Maria Zita Hakuba4, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (2)CIRES/NOAA/LASP, Boulder, United States, (3)University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, Pasadena, United States
NERISSA: New Earth’s Radiation Imbalance Study Using Space Accelerometry (1953468)
Kristen Maquaire, ONERA French Aerospace Lab, Palaiseau Cedex, France, Manuel Rodrigues, ONERA, the French Aerospace Lab, Châtillon, France, Bruno Christophe, ONERA Châtillon, Châtillon Cedex, France and Leo Schyns, ONERA, the French Aerospace Lab, Chatillon, France
Latitudinal Differences of Changes in Earth's Energy Budget in Historical (2003-2014) and Future Climate Projections (2014-2100) (1973273)
Lynn Hirose, Princeton University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, David Paynter, NOAA/ Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States and V Ramaswamy, NOAA/OAR/ GFDL, Princeton, United States
Historical Trends in the Zonal Mean Energy Budget of the Coupled Climate System (1978859)
Aaron Donohoe, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Hamish Daniel Prince, Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand and Kyle Armour, University of Washington, Dept. of Atmospheric and Climate Science and School of Oceanography, Seattle, United States
Towards filling gaps and supplementing the Earth Radiation Budget record with broadband fluxes derived from Spectral Radiances using Machine Learning (1979406)
Maria Zita Hakuba, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, Pasadena, United States, Matthew D Lebsock, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, Robert C Wilson, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Joao Teixeira, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
