Annual Meeting of the Swiss Physical Society 2022

Session

Public Lecture

27 Jun 2022, 19:30

Room JD 002

212. 【3】Climate models: Early warning system of the climate crisis

Prof. Thomas Stocker (Climate and Environmental Physics and Oeschger Centre of Climate Research, University of Bern)

27/06/2022, 19:30

Talk

“Climate change is physics”; this was highlighted by the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics. Physically based models of the atmosphere and ocean, which have been developed since the mid 1960s, have predicted fingerprints of climate change that we now observe worldwide. Warming in the troposphere and cooling in the stratosphere, warming of the ocean, and the accelerating melting of glaciers and polar...