Speaking: Lori Bruhwiler, NOAA OAR Global Monitoring Laboratory
Part of the NOAA in Alaska and the Arctic seminar series hosted by NOAA NCEI Regional Climate Services Director, Alaska Region.
Full title: Short-Lived Climate Forcers (SLCFs) and their Impact on Arctic Climate and Air Quality: Conclusions from the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program 2021 Report
Remote Access
Please register for NOAA in Alaska and the Arctic seminar series September 07, 2021 at: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1905415584938229006
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
Abstract
The Arctic Council Framework for Action on Black Carbon andMethane Emissions Reductions of 2015 calls for Arctic Monitoring and AssessmentProgram (AMAP) reports every 4 years that update progress on understanding the budgets, trends, and impacts on air quality, human health and ecosystems of short-lived climate forcers (SLCFs). Unlike for the 2015 AMAP reports, the 2021AMAP report covers all SLCFs together; methane, tropospheric ozone, and aerosols including black carbon, dust, volcanic ash and sulphate. Understanding the net impacts on Arctic climate and air quality of these SLCFs is complex due to their varied contributions to the energy budget and due to possible feedbacks with natural emissions and chemistry. A particular issue explored by this report is the tradeoff between air quality improvements and radiative forcing. This presentation will highlight some of the interesting conclusions of the 2021 AMAP report.
Bio
Lori Bruhwiler is a physical scientist at the NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML) in Boulder, Colorado. Her research interests include understanding atmospheric budgets of CO2, CH4 and other greenhouse gases using atmospheric transport models and data assimilation techniques. Lori has spent her entire career so far at NOAA, beginning with her PhD research on stratospheric chemistry at the Chemical Sciences Laboratory. She went on to the NOAA Geophysical Research Laboratory where she worked with models of stratospheric chemistry and dynamics, before joining the GML Carbon Cycle Group.