Place: 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
Speaker: Pao K. Wang, UW Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Abstract: Atmospheric clouds have great impact on the global climate process mainly due to their ability to influence the radiative budget of the earth system. But because of their high variability, they also make climate predictions complicated and unreliable so far. In addition, cloud formation is closely related to the aerosol in the atmosphere. This further complicates the climate predictions because we don't yet fully understand how clouds and aerosol interact and meanwhile human activities keep injecting large amount of aerosol into the atmosphere. In this talk I would like to discuss fundamental cloud and aerosol interactions and how they may impact the global climate process.