Meeting Summary
Tom Woods
September 2006
1

“Be Prepared to Fail” - Yoram Kaufman
September 2006
2

(groan…)
September 2006
3
IPCC 2001

Earth's Radiative Energy Budget
Reference Energy Budget at Beginning of Meeting
TOA
Solar In
Solar Out
LW Out
Balance
Energy (W/m2)
342
-107
-235
0
SURFACE Energy (W/m2)
Solar In
LW In
Thermal Out
Evap. Out
LW Out
Balance
168
324
-24
-78
-390
0
September 2006
4

Earth's Radiative Energy Budget - Solar In
SORCE TIM satellite measurements (G. Kopp)
1361 W/m 2 => 340.25 W/m 2 surface average
TOA
Solar In
Solar Out
LW Out
Balance
Energy (W/m2)
340.25
-107
-235
-1.75
SURFACE Energy (W/m2)
Solar In
LW In
Thermal Out
Evap. Out
LW Out
Balance
168
324
-24
-78
-390
0
September 2006
5

Earth's Radiative Energy Budget - LW In
BSRN measurements of surface LW input (E. Dutton): 344 W/m 2
TOA
Solar In
Solar Out
LW Out
Balance
Energy (W/m2)
340.25
-107
-235
-1.75
SURFACE Energy (W/m2)
Solar In
LW In
Thermal Out
Evap. Out
LW Out
Balance
168
344
-24
-78
-390
20
September 2006
6

Earth's Radiative Energy Budget - Modeling
Change in energy balance in 10 years of CCSM Development (B. Collins)
TOA
Solar In
Solar Out
LW Out
Balance
Energy (W/m2)
342
-111
-232
-1
+4
SURFACE Energy (W/m2)
Solar In
LW In
Thermal Out
Evap. Out
LW Out
Balance
155
329
-21
-73
-394
-4
+5
0
-3
+9
-3 -5
-1 -13
+4
+5
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September 2006

Radiative Forcing - Updates
IPCC 2001
1.5-2.7 with 25%
(Bill Collins)
-2 -3
(Jim Coakley)
+ Sea salt aerosol effects (Tony Clarke)
+ Ocean heat content / storage (David Halpern & others)
0.3 0.12
(Judith Lean)
Albedo: 0.262 with
0.0061 /decade (Steven Lloyd)
September 2006
8

Thanks for all of the excellent presentations and posters !
We’ll put the presentations on the SORCE web site
(unless you tell us otherwise).
If you want to update your presentation / poster fi rst, then send the fi nal version to Vanessa.George@lasp.colorado.edu
Web site: http://lasp.colorado.edu/sorce/
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September 2006
9

• Previous SORCE Meeting Themes
– 2002: Present Understanding of Solar Terrestrial Variations (pre-launch)
– 2003: Physical Processes Linking Solar Radiation and Solar Variability with
Global Climate Change
– 2004: Decadal Variability in the Sun and Climate
– 2005: Paleo Connections Between the Sun, Climate, and Culture
– 2006: Earth’s Radiative Energy Budget
• Next SORCE Meeting - suggestions welcomed
– Possible theme:
• Variability of the Sun and Climate during the SORCE Mission
– Solar cycle variability of the irradiance
» Physical processes on Sun causing irradiance variability
– Climate changes in atmosphere and ocean and at surface
» Physical processes of solar in fl uences on climate changes
– Possible time, location:
• late Oct - early Nov, east coast (SC ?) or Santa Fe (?)
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September 2006