GC084
The Flows of Energy Through the Climate System
Session ID#: 158384
Session Description:
The radiative energy fluxes absorbed, redistributed and transformed 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 the instantaneous to decadal variability in energy fluxes, radiative effects and feedbacks. The topic also includes assessments of Earth’s energy imbalance, heat uptake, and energy flows, such as transports of energy in the atmosphere, ocean, land, and across their boundaries. Studies on implications of heat uptake and storage for sea level, the cryosphere, and the hydrological and carbon cycles at global to regional scales are also welcome.
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Index Terms:
1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1635 Oceans [GLOBAL CHANGE]
3310 Clouds and cloud feedbacks [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3359 Radiative processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Primary Convener: Maria Zita Hakuba, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners: Lijing Cheng, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, International Center for Climate and Environment Sciences, Beijing, China, Karina von Schuckmann, Mercator Océan, Ramonville-Saint-Agne, France and Martin Wild, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Explaining Recent Variations in Sea-Surface Temperature Using an Ocean Mixed Layer Energy Budget Analysis (1050201)
Norman G Loeb, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, Michael Mayer, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom and Seiji Kato, NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, VA, United States
CERESMIP: An updated protocol for understanding the changes in the Earth Energy Imbalance (1066945)
Susanne Bauer, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, Gavin A Schmidt, NASA/GISS, New York, United States, Norman G Loeb, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, Timothy Andrews, Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom, Paul James Durack, Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab., Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison, Livermore, CA, United States and V Ramaswamy, NOAA/OAR/ GFDL, Princeton, NJ, United States
Angular Sampling of a Monochromatic, Wide-Field-of-View Camera to Augment Next-Generation Earth Radiation Budget Satellite Observations (1076113)
Jake Joseph Gristey, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Sebastian Schmidt, University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States and Libera Split-Shortwave ADM Working Group
Multiplatform Analysis of the Global Energy Budget (Invited) (1086131)
Andrea Storo, CNR Institute for Marine Science, Venice, Italy, Lijing Cheng, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, International Center for Climate and Environment Sciences, Beijing, China and Chunxue Yang, CNR Institute for Marine Science, Rome, Italy
Response of Surface Climate to the Variation of Solar Spectral Irradiance: a Sensitivity Study (1100345)
Xiuhong Chen, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Xianglei Huang, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Dong Liang Wu, Climate and Radiation Laboratory, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Peter Pilewskie, University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States and Odele Coddington, CU in Boulder--LASP, Boulder, CO, United States
Earth's Hemispheric Albedo Symmetry by Cloud Type (1118094)
Michael S Diamond, NOAA CSL, Boulder, United States, Jake Joseph Gristey, NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States and Graham Feingold, NOAA CSL, Boulder, CO, United States
The Global Energy Balance as Represented in CMIP6 Climate Models (1122638)
Martin Wild, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Doris Folini, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Zurich, Switzerland and Donghao Li, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Examining the feasibility of detailed decomposition of radiative flux anomalies to cloud changes (1136845)
Nayeong Cho1,2, Lazaros Oreopoulos3 and Dongmin Lee2,4, (1)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, United States
Close Agreement in the Time Variability of the Earth Energy Imbalance Monitored from CERES and from Space Altimetry Minus Space Gravimetry (1154887)
Robin Fraudeau1, Florence Marti1, Alejandro Blazquez2, Benoit Meyssignac2, Mickael Ablain3, Anne Barnoud3, Victor Rousseau1, Rémi Jugier1, Jonathan Chenal2,4, Gilles Larnicol1, Julia Pfeffer3, Marco Restano5, Jérôme Benveniste6, Gérald Dibarboure7 and François Bignalet-Cazalet8, (1)Magellium, Earth Observation, Ramonville St Agne, France, (2)LEGOS-CNES, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, IRD, Toulouse, France, (3)Magellium, Earth Observation, Ramonville-Saint-Agne, France, (4)Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Marne-la-Vallée, France, (5)SERCO for European Space Agency, Frascati, Italy, (6)European Space Agency (ESA-ESRIN), Earth Observation Programmes, Frascati, Italy, (7)CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, (8)CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse Cedex 9, France
Harmonizing Land and Ocean Surface Radiation Measurements for a More Unified Global Picture of the Surface Radiation Balance (Invited) (1169802)
Laura Riihimaki, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States; NOAA, Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States, Meghan F Cronin, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States, R Venkatesan, National Institute of Ocean Technology, Chennai, India, Alcide di Sarra, Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile (ENEA), Rome, Italy and Cheng Xue, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
Evaporation: the Critical Link in Coupling Atmosphere and Ocean Heat Transport (1185859)
Sarah Ragen, University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, United States, Robert Fajber, University of Washington, Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, United States, Aaron Donohoe, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Kyle Armour, University of Washington, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences and School of Oceanography, Seattle, United States
