Tyndall Conference 2011
Date: 9 June 2011
The Tyndall Conference will take place on 28-30 September 2011, in Dublin, Ireland
The Royal Irish Academy and the Environmental Protection Agency are holding a scientific conference to mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of John Tyndall’s breakthrough experimental work on the absorption of infrared radiation by various atmospheric gases that are essentially transparent to solar radiation
John Tyndall’s work is at the heart of current concerns about global warming and associated climatic and environmental changes. The Tyndall Conference 2011 will celebrate John Tyndall as a pioneer in climate science. The conference will also explore a number of contemporary issues in the science of the greenhouse effect and global change. It will adopt as a special theme the climatic influences of different radiatively active substances in the atmosphere. This will include approaches to the aggregation of the effects of GHG emissions in terms of their global warming potentials, as well as other metrics for long-lived and short-lived greenhouse gases and metrics for aerosols. It will also the explore the current science of climate feedbacks, which determine the climate system’s equilibrium response to given forcings.
The conference is intended to highlight the continuing relevance of Tyndall’s work and advance the science internationally in the areas of common metrics for radiatively-active substances and the associated feedbacks.
Tyndall’s work provided for the first time a solid scientific basis for the understanding of the natural greenhouse effect, whereby the Earth’s surface temperature is maintained at a value considerably higher than it would be in the absence of these heat-trapping gases. It also showed the basic mechanism for the enhanced greenhouse effect that results when the concentrations of the longer-lived absorbing gases are increased above their naturally occurring values.
Scientific abstracts are invited on the areas of
1. Global Warming Potentials and other metrics for radiative forcers, including aerosols
2. Climate feedbacks: the current science
Keynote speakers include:
Ray Bates University College Dublin, Ireland
Bill Collins Hadley Centre, UK
Colin O’Dowd National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Daniel Johansson Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Corine LeQuere Tyndall Centre, UK
John Mitchell Hadley Centre, UK
Keith Shine University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Richard Somerville Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, USA
Jean Pascal Van Ypersele University Louvain, Belgium
The deadline for submission of abstracts is July 1st 2011.
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