BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Lewis & Clark//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 RDATE:20200308T100000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 RDATE:20201101T090000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201209T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201209T180000 SUMMARY:Science Faculty Lecture Series: Clouds and Climate Change Featuri ng Associate Professor Jessica Kleiss DESCRIPTION:This presentation is the final lecture in a three-part Scienc e Faculty Lecture series being offered this fall. Keep an eye on our virt ual events webpage (https://college.lclark.edu/offices/alumni/virtual-eve nts-and-programming/) for details on future presentations.Clouds and Clim ate ChangePresented by Associate Professor Jessica Kleiss Join Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Jessica Kleiss as she discusses cloud s and their impact as a source of uncertainty in climate model forecasts. Clouds currently account for the greatest source of uncertainty in clima te models because clouds can exert both a warming and a cooling effect on Earth's climate and are involved in many positive and negative feedbacks \, amplifying the effects of clouds in the models. In this talk\, Profes sor Kleiss will summarize some of the fascinating ways that clouds intera ct with earth's climate\, and some of the challenges with model represent ations. This understanding has inspired a range of geoengineering approac hes that aim to artificially mimic clouds' cooling effect on earth and th us delay global warming. She will discuss the potential benefits and draw backs of geoengineering approaches in the context of other possible clima te actions. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
This presentation is the final lecture
in a three-part Science Faculty Lecture series being offered this fall. K
eep an eye on our virtual event
s webpage for details on future presentations.
Clo
uds and Climate Change
Presented by Associate Professor
Jessica Kleiss
Join Associate Professor of Environmental St udies Jessica Kleiss as she discusses clouds and their impact as a source of uncertainty in climate model forecasts. Clouds currently account for the greatest source of uncertainty in climate models because clouds can e xert both a warming and a cooling effect on Earth's climate and are invol ved in many positive and negative feedbacks\, amplifying the effects of c louds in the models.
In this talk\, Professor Kleiss will summari ze some of the fascinating ways that clouds interact with earth's climate \, and some of the challenges with model representations. This understand ing has inspired a range of geoengineering approaches that aim to artific ially mimic clouds' cooling effect on earth and thus delay global warming . She will discuss the potential benefits and drawbacks of geoengineering approaches in the context of other possible climate actions.