Sensitivity of regional and global climate to solar forcing

Team Chair: Terrence Nathan
Next Team Meeting: Friday, September 14, 2007. Meeting place: NCAR, Boulder, CO.
Team-Maintained Web Site: http://sun-climate.lawr.ucdavis.edu/index.html
Team Publications: A listing of the team publications (journal articles / team plan) as well as PDF copies of the publications can be found under the publications link on the team website.
Team Members:

• Linton Floyd, Interferometrics
• Rolando Garcia, NCAR
• Jeff Morrill, NRL

Goals and measures of success: Success in this Topic will be measured by the
ability of climate models to specify global and regionally-specific impacts of
interactive solar and other external and internal forcing of the coupled climate
system, and the ability of solar-coupled climate models to replicate global and
regional climatic records.

Types of solicited investigations: Proposals that address the this high visibility
Topic are expected to include, but not be limited to, collaboration between the
solar and climatological data analysis and modeling communities, as well as
contributions from all of the following elements: (i) specification of relevant
changes in total and spectral irradiance and other energetically-significant input
from the Sun; (ii) multivariate analyses of climate observations as a function of
geographic region, atmospheric height, phase and amplitude, and the combined
impact of other climate drivers; and (iii) comparison with and validation of model
results for the response of the coupled climate system to solar variations.