[Faculty] Fwd: [CSRC-SDSU COLLOQUIUM]: (Joint with the Department of Mathematics and Statistics) Observation and Modelling of Cloud, Convection, and Radiation using Remote Sensing and In Situ Observations for Coupled Climate System

[Jose Castillo]

*This is a Joint Colloquium between the Computational Science Research
Center and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.*

*DATE*:  Friday, March 18th, 2016

*TITLE*:   Observation and Modelling of Cloud, Convection, and Radiation
using Remote Sensing and In Situ Observations for Coupled Climate System

*TIME*:  3:30 PM

*LOCATION*:  GMCS 214

*SPEAKER*:  Dr. Jui-Lin (Frank) Li. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California
Institute of Technology,

*ABSTRACT*: Representing clouds, convection and radiation and their
complicated interactions in global weather forecast and climate models
remains a pressing challenge in reducing and quantifying uncertainties in
the simulations of coupled climate system (atmosphere-land-ocean-sea
ice-land ice). This task is crucial for improving future climate projection
(e.g. under global warming).

In this talk, we will first present the uncertainties using some examples
of observationally-based model evaluation including model simulated surface
air temperature (SAT) from recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) climate model simulations and satellite-observed cloud water,
radiation, water vapor, sea ice, land surface temperature from various NASA
satellite missions (e.g., CloudSat-CALIPSO/MODIS, CERES/CloudSat-CALIPSO,
AIRS/SSMI, and SSM/I). We will then discuss the gaps between available
observations and model representations and the biases on the coupled Earth
climate system and conclude the talk with suggested future work.

*HOST*:  Dr. Bo-Wen Shen.

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