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ITS2.6/CL0.1.6 | Climate forcing: quantifying the roles and responses of anthropogenic and natural climate drivers
EDI PICO
Climate forcing: quantifying the roles and responses of anthropogenic and natural climate drivers
AGU and WMO
Convener: Paul Durack | Co-conveners: Stephanie Fiedler, Thomas AubryECSECS, Michaela I. Hegglin
Climate change is the result of perturbations to atmospheric composition or land use affecting the surface albedo, amongst other external natural of anthropogenic forcings. These “climate forcing” agents cause an energy imbalance at the top of the atmosphere, driving a warming Earth. This session invites research contributions assessing the climate responses to forcing and uncertainties in the evolution of different forcing agents. We are especially interested in time-dependent physical and biogeochemical responses to climate forcing, based on the coupled model intercomparison project phase six (CMIP6) or previous CMIP phases. Contributions on all aspects of climate-forcing research are welcome. These may include, but are not limited to, the development of historical and future forcing, studies that use idealized, single- or multi-Earth System Model approaches, observational methods to evaluate climate responses, as well as works accounting for multiple climate system realms, i.e., the ocean, atmosphere, cryosphere, land surface/subsurface, and biosphere, their linkages, and feedbacks in the system. This session is convened by the WCRP CMIP Forcing Task Team which is working to prepare next-generation climate-forcing datasets for CMIP6Plus and CMIP7.