Primary Convener:
Maria Hakuba, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech

Convener:
Seiji Kato, NASA Langley Research Center
Martin Wild, ETH Zurich

Chair:
Seiji Kato, NASA Langley Research Ctr
Xianglei Huang, University of Michigan Ann Arbor

The radiative energy fluxes absorbed by the Earth system are the main drivers of climate variability, regulating global temperature, affecting oceanic and atmospheric circulations, and interacting with the hydrological and carbon cycles. This session concerns various aspects of Earth’s energy budget and the variability in its radiative and non-radiative components, as well as the processes yielding such changes and their implications on multiple time and spatial scales. In particular, we invite observational and modeling studies that aim at the improved understanding of the magnitude and variability in energy fluxes, radiative effects and feedbacks, and the increase in top-of-atmosphere net radiative fluxes, especially since 2023. The topic also includes assessments of Earth’s energy imbalance, heat uptake, and energy flows in the atmosphere, ocean, land, and across their boundaries. Studies on the implications of heat uptake for sea level, the cryosphere, the hydrological and carbon cycles are also welcome.

Index Terms
3305 Climate change and variability
3310 Clouds and cloud feedbacks
3359 Radiative processes
1635 Oceans

Suggested Itineraries:
Climate Change and Global Policy

Cross-Listed:
A - Atmospheric Sciences
OS - Ocean Sciences

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering