SEAS Colloquium in Climate Science (SCiCS)
Thursday,
November 16, 2017
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
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"How will mean rainfall change with global warming?"
Global climate models show that average rainfall increases with surface warming at a rate of roughly 1-3% per Kelvin, but we have no theory for what sets these values. This talk will review the basic physics governing mean precipitation, as well as present a new theoretical framework for understanding its changes with warming. The theory is validated against cloud-resolving simulations of the tropical atmosphere, and extensions to global climate models are discussed.
Host: Ding Ma
"How will mean rainfall change with global warming?"
Global climate models show that average rainfall increases with surface warming at a rate of roughly 1-3% per Kelvin, but we have no theory for what sets these values. This talk will review the basic physics governing mean precipitation, as well as present a new theoretical framework for understanding its changes with warming. The theory is validated against cloud-resolving simulations of the tropical atmosphere, and extensions to global climate models are discussed.
Host: Ding Ma
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