Forum on Solar Variability and Climate Change

Friday, March 28 and Saturday, March 29, 2008

Conveners:  Sabatino Sofia and Karl K. Turekian
Yale University

Paul Charbonneau, Université de Montréal
Semi-empirical Model for the Total Solar
Irradiance

Sabatino Sofia, Yale University
TSI Variability Produced by Structural Changes
of the Solar Interior

Claus Frohlich, PMOD/World Radiation Center
Solar Irradiance Variability During the Last
Three Solar Cycles: Observations and Mechanisms

Sarbani Basu, Yale University
Helioseismic Evidence of Changes Inside the Sun

Juerg Beer, Eawag, Aquatic Research
Long-term Solar Variability and Evidence for Solar Forcing from Paleoclimatic Records

Gerard Thuillier, Service d’Aeronomie-CNRS
The PICARD Mission

Michael Schlesinger, University of Illinois
The Solar Contribution to the Observed Global Warming from 1856 to 2007

Gabi Hegerl, University of Edinburgh
Estimating the Solar Contribution to Surface Temperature Changes Over the Last Few Centuries: Was It the Sun, Greenhouse Gasses, or Volcanoes?

Drew Shindell, NASA GISS
Effects of Solar Variability on Regional Climate:  Models and Observation

Stuart Jordan, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA
Does the Sun Play a Significant Role in Terrestrial Climate Change?