COLLOQUIUM DFA: THOMAS STOCKER
Speaker: THOMAS STOCKER - University of Bern
Where and When: 6-06-2024 | 15:00 | Aula Rostagni
URL sito web:https://indico.dfa.unipd.it/event/952/
Abstract: Climate crisis: What physics predicted 50 years ago is n ow reality Abstract: “Climate change is physics”, as the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics has highlighted to the broader public. Physically based models of the atmosphere and ocean have been developed since the mid 1960s. They predicted fingerprints of climate change that are now observed: warming in the troposphere and cooling in the stratosphere, warming of the ocean, acceleration of glaciers and polar ice sheet melt and sea level rise. We recall some of the seminal research of Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann, two of the three laureates of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2021. These models, along with in situ and remote sensing observations are the physical science basis for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and for the Paris Agreement
