The Physics Colloquium "Climate System Dynamics: Numerical and toy models for the temperature response to greenhouse gas forcing"
- Event Type
- Seminar/Symposium
- Sponsor
- Department of Physics
- Location
- Loomis Lab 141
- Virtual
- Join online
- Date
- Dec 10, 2025 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Speaker
- Cristian Proistosescu
- Contact
- Danielle Swigart
- dswigart@illinois.edu
- Views
- 75
- Originating Calendar
- Physics - Colloquium
Climate sensitivity quantifies the long-term warming the Earth will experience in response to the additional energy trapped by greenhouse gases.
In this talk, I will give you a flavor of the work done by the Climate Dynamics and Data Science group to better constrain and understand climate sensitivity. I will showcase two projects. The first is an effort to improve numerical models of Earth’s Climate through a combination of Perturbed Physics Ensembles and AI emulators. The second is a toy model examining how the non-normality of the climate response operator may lead to continued warming even after we stop CO2 emissions.