Progress Towards Understanding the Growing Earth's Energy Imbalance (EEI)
Progress Towards Understanding the Growing Earth's Energy Imbalance (EEI)
Session ID#: 282427
Session Description:
Remote-sensing (CERES) and in-situ data collections (Argo etc.) both point towards increases in the Earth's Energy Imbalance (EEI) since 2000. While this was generally anticipated by climate models as a function of the growing impact of anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases, a detailed reconciliation between observations and models remains elusive. This session will focus on work being done to understand and attribute the changes in the net EEI, its shortwave and longwave components, and regional or regime-based expressions. In particular, we solicit contributions identifying and quantifying contributions from changes in short-lived climate forcer emissions (aerosols and their precursors), the impact of cloud thermodynamic and dynamic feedbacks, surface changes, and deeper understandings of the structural uncertainties in the observational products. Contributions from the CERESMIP project are welcome.
Co-Sponsor(s):
- A - Atmospheric Sciences
- OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:
1622 Earth system modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]
3311 Clouds and aerosols [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3359 Radiative processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Primary Convener: Gavin A Schmidt, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States
Conveners: Susanne Bauer, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States, Norman G Loeb, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, Shiv Priyam Raghuraman, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States and George Tselioudis, NASA/GISS, New York, United States
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