Events and seminars

Event:	Global Change Seminar
Date:	12:30, Wed 03 Oct, 2012
Speaker:	Ted Shepherd, University of Reading
Title:	Coupling between stratospheric ozone depletion/recovery and climate change
Venue:	Room 302, Crew Building
Host:	AF
Abstract:	The two-way coupling between climate change and ozone depletion and recovery is a subject of increasing scientific interest. On the one hand, climate change is predicted to affect stratospheric ozone through a strengthening of the Brewer-Dobson circulation. On the other hand,ozone depletion has had a demonstrable effect on summertime surface climate trends at southern high latitudes, and ozone recovery is similarly predicted to affect future trends. Atmospheric dynamics plays a first-order role in these ozone-climate couplings, yet many critical aspects of that role remain poorly understood. This talk will discuss what is known and identify outstanding uncertainties.

This article was published on Aug 16, 2010