85th AMS Annual Meeting

Session 13: Radiative Forcing of the Climate (parallel with Session 12)

Thursday, 13 January 2005: 8:30 AM-9:45 AM
Chair:  Piers M. de F. Forster, University of Reading UK
Papers:
 
13.1
Progress in measuring the radiative forcing of global warming

  8:45 AM
Interannual changes in the global direct radiative climate forcing by well-mixed greenhouse gases over the past 25 years
David J. Hofmann, NOAA/Climate Monitoring & Diagnostics Lab, Boulder, CO; and J. H. Butler, E. J. Dlugokencky, J. W. Elkins, K. Masarie, S. A. Montzka, and P. Tans

 
13.4
On the role of clouds and moisture for the tropical modes in a two-dimensional general circulation model

  9:30 AM
Cloud-climate feedbacks as a result of solar cloud absorption in the SKYHI General Circulation Model
Carynelisa Erlick, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; and V. Ramaswamy and L. M. Russell