Center for the Study of Global Change

Karl K. Turekian, Director
Sterling Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics

The YIBS Center for the Study of Global Change presented a FORUM ON AEROSOLS on Friday, March 26th and Saturday, March 27th, 2010. 

Forum organizers were:  Inez Fung, Professor, University of California, Berkeley, and YIBS Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Environmental Scholar; Dorothy Koch, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), Research Affiliate, Yale Department of Geology & Geophysics; Trude Storelvmo, Assistant Professor, Yale Department of Geology & Geophysics; Karl K. Turekian, Yale Sterling Professor of Geology & Geophysics.

The Program for the Forum on Aerosols and Climate Program and links to presentations:

Friday, March 26, 2010

 The Fundamental Chemistry and Physics of Aerosols

Peter Buseck, Arizona State University
Aerosol particles as viewed using transmission electron microscopy

Allen Goldstein, University of California, Berkeley
Known and unexplored organic constituents in Earth’s atmosphere: How well do we understand
organic aerosols and their role in the climate system?

Athanasios Nenes, Georgia Tech

Impacts of aerosols on clouds and climate

Dinner Speaker:
Inez Fung, University of California, Berkeley and
the Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Environmental Scholar at Yale

The role of aerosols in the Great Plains Dust Bowl event of the 1930’s

Saturday, March 27, 2010
Aerosols, Clouds and Climate

V. Ramaswamy, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL),
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
The imprint of aerosol microphysics on climate

Daniel Rosenfeld, Hebrew University

From expanding marine stratocumulus to suppressing hurricanes: Climate forcing through
aerosol impact on precipitation

Bjorn Stevens, Max-Planck-Institut Meteorologie, Hamburg
Untangling the effects of aerosols on clouds, precipitation and climate

Measurements, Records and Modeling

Lynn Russell, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Tracking the contributions of organic particles and some possible implications for

aerosol forcing

Joseph McConnell, Desert Research Institute, University of Nevada
Aerosols in the polarregions during the past millennia from ice core measurements

Forum on Solar Variability and Climate Change
March 28 and March 29, 2008
For copy of program (word doc),
To view program, click here

Forum on Ocean & Climate
April 11 and April 12, 2008
To view program, click here

The Forum on Carbon Sequestration: Is It Feasible?
Friday, April 7 and Saturday, April 8, 2006
To view presentations, click here.

The Forum on Climate and Disease
Friday, December 9 and Saturday, December 10, 2005
To view videos of talks, click here.

The Forum on Global Climate Change Components
Friday, October 29 and Saturday, October 30, 2004
To view presentations, click here.