CAIRT - Charting a course for whole atmosphere observation, prediction and operational attribution  

Speaker:  SCOTT OSPREY

Chair(S): MARIA RUSSO

wednesday february 12 2025, 13:00

ABSTRACT

Recent annual assessments of present-day and future climate variability provided by the World Meteorological Organization have motivated the need for the attribution of environmental change, separating climate forcing agents from large-scale natural climate variability. To address this need operational forecasting systems seek out sustained, comprehensive and relevant observations for assessing current climate and climate forcers. The Changing Atmosphere IR Tomographer - CAIRT - will play such a role, providing a long record of comprehensive observations of short-lived climate forcers, aerosols and atmospheric waves, all of which play a key part in driving our changing atmosphere. I will discuss the opportunities presented by this ESA candidate mission as it vies to become the Earth Explorer 11. 

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