Primary Convener:
Ivy Tan, University of Colorado Boulder

Convener:
Mark Richardson, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Chad Thackeray, University of California Los Angeles
Nicholas Lutsko, UCSD

Early Career Convener:
Li-Wei Chao, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Chair:
Ivy Tan, University of Colorado Boulder
Mark Richardson, Colorado State University

A major goal of current climate research is to reduce uncertainty in metrics of large-scale forced climate responses, such as the Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity (ECS), the eventual warming in response to doubled atmospheric CO₂. The ECS is estimated to have a very likely range of 2-5 K, a range largely due to clouds and other moist processes. These processes are deeply intertwined and are linked to changes in societally important factors such as precipitation. This session explores recent advances in understanding large-scale climate response to climate forcings. We welcome submissions on theory, observations and modelling studies of climate feedbacks, climate sensitivity, and climate responses of precipitation and large-scale dynamics, especially those exploring novel evaluation techniques such as emergent constraints, and new ways of thinking about processes that govern climate's response to external forcing.

Index Terms
3305 Climate change and variability
3310 Clouds and cloud feedbacks
3337 Global climate models
3360 Remote sensing

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering