CLIMATE MODELLING
Long-Term Solar Forcing Variability
Centennial climate evolution strongly correlates with the solar activity proxies before the anthropogenically driven contemporary era. However, this correlation has not yet been proven or disproven . . .
GECO
Geomag Field and Environmental Crisis Occurrence (GECO): The environmental crisis circa 42000 years ago has been discovered from the paleo archives and might be caused by the enhanced ionization rate . . .
AEON
Volcanic activity and solar variability are the most important natural climate forcings and were the dominant drivers of climate variability in the pre-industrial era. Nowadays, they still play an important . . .
SolParGeo
Exploring the chemical and climatic impacts of Solid Particles for stratospheric solar Geoengineering (SolParGeo): Recent studies have shown that gaseous SO2 injection entails several drawbacks, such as . . .
STOA
Quantifying past, present and future Stratospheric and Tropospheric Ozone over the Alps and Europe (STOA): Modelling of the ozone evolution has achieved substantial progress over the last decades . . .
The Climate Group of the PMOD/WRC studies natural and anthropogenic influences on the Earth’s atmosphere, ozone layer and climate in the past, present and future using numerical models and observations. Understanding how climate varies due to natural forcing which include solar irradiance variations and volcanic eruptions, can help to improve climate model predictions and identify the degree of how human activity can influence climate.
- Understand past climate change, predict climate change in the future, and quantify the contribution from solar activity.
- Understand the causes of the ozone layer evolution, predict ozone layer behavior in the future, and quantify the response of ozone to solar activity changes.
- Reconstruction of solar forcing with the physically-based models.
For further information please contact: Dr. T. Sukhodolov