2021 Workshop: CEDAR and Climate Change

International scientific assessments conclude risks of dire consequences of climate change and that the next decade is critical for transformational change to achieve deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the most serious impacts. This workshop continues our conversation about ways that the CEDAR community could contribute to global efforts to address the challenges of climate change. Such efforts may include whole atmosphere studies of climate change processes; identifying aeronomy data sets and techniques that can also provide tropospheric information; continued work to reduce uncertainties in observations to facilitate their use for longer-term comparisons; ways that the CEDAR community is or could potentially contribute to national and international climate assessment processes; collaborating more closely with the tropospheric climate community to identify studies that would be enhanced with knowledge of climate responses at multiple altitudes; and steps that our scientific community can take to mitigate climate change. We will focus this year as well on strategies for communicating climate science.